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We believe lasting improvements in supply chain standards can best be achieved through a combined industry effort.
We participate in the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) that is developing tools to assess and improve supply chain corporate responsibility practices. We have designed and implemented our program around the best practices identified by GeSI in collaboration with the Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC).
Through the GeSI/EICC extractives workgroup, we are working to implement a tracking and validation system for metals used in our products. Read more about efforts to improve labor and environmental standards in the mining and metals supply chain.
Common industry tools
We continue to use e-TASC, the self-assessment tool developed by GeSI and the EICC. Participating companies in the future will be able to view their suppliers' on-site audit results and corrective actions. Suppliers control which of their customers can view their information.
Overall, there are approximately 800 companies with more than 1,400 facilities represented in e-TASC. The system has successfully improved efficiency for a number of suppliers and customers. For example, one supplier shares data with 10 different customers through e-TASC and many others share data with two or more customers.
In 2010, we strengthened the e-TASC process in a number of ways:
- Working with GeSI and the EICC, we modified the e-TASC self-assessment questionnaire to better suit the different types of companies in our supply chain. Additional modifications are planned in 2011 that will make the questionnaire more flexible and more relevant. For example companies with no manufacturing sites will not be asked questions on machine guarding and other production related subjects.
- We engaged the e-TASC solution provider to manage the e-TASC process with the aim of increasing the number of suppliers using the tool.
- We introduced a formal feedback process which raises awareness of risks identified and through which we can ask suppliers to tackle specific issues.
In 2011, we will support efforts to increase the functionality of e-TASC to enable companies to incorporate more elements of their supplier CR management process into the tool.
Mining of metals
Together with our peers, we are working to support the development and implementation of a tracking and validation system to ensure that metals supplied to the electronics industry come from responsible sources. Efforts are coordinated through the extractives workgroup of the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) and Electronic Industry Citizenship Coalition (EICC), which we co-lead.
Read more efforts to improve social and environmental conditions in the minerals supply chain.