We encourage our suppliers to balance environmental, social and economic considerations in their businesses and supply chains. To help further these endeavors, we have developed a five year plan (2012-2016) with specific goals to help facilitate and track our efforts.
Below are the results of our efforts as of December 31, 2014.
Goal 1:
Avendra will undertake efforts to ensure that all of our contracted suppliers will have a sustainability policy by the end of 2016.
Results to Date: 84 percent of supplier contracts have an approved sustainability policy on file.
2015 Plan
- Continue supplier policy collection
- Identify high-risk areas for non-compliance and deploy educational and support resources
- Review current supplier policies to understand similarities, differences, etc.
Goal 2:
Avendra will identify ten categories and champion improved sustainability options in these categories by the end of 2016.
Results to Date: Four categories have been addressed and reports have been issued to customers.
Categories addressed:
- Personal Paper
- Sourcing Locally Produced Foods
- LED Lighting
- Foodservice Disposables
2015 Plan
- Sustainable seafood tracking (new)
- Packaging audits (new)
- Uniform supply chain analysis (new)
- Textile supply chain analysis (new)
- Local/organic produce tracking (additional work on prior category)
- Sustainable foodservice disposables tracking (additional work on prior category)