Working with suppliers to balance corporate responsibility with price and risk
Our commitment to ethical supplier relations is reflected in our comprehensive set of guidelines on the ethics of purchasing and the selection of suppliers.
“At Capgemini we have to ensure that the partners we choose respect our code of ethics.”
- Carolyn Nimmy, Head of Corporate Responsibility Strategy
Purchasing Activities
In our purchasing activities, we pay attention to:
- Social impacts and human rights
- Environmental impacts
- Combating bribery and corruption
To this end, our activities throughout the world comply with the 10 key principles of the United Nations Global Compact guide our activities throughout our business. We are committed to ensuring that we work only with suppliers that respect ethical policies and human rights.
Principles
Our suppliers must comply at least with the following principles:
- No use of forced labor or child labor
- No discriminatory practices
- Freedom of association
- Compliance with applicable local laws, particularly those concerning working conditions, health and safety.
Procurement Procedures
Our procurement procedures involve:
- Treating suppliers fairly
- Selecting vendors based on value, performance and price
- Providing justifiable and transparent selection decisions
- Ensuring confidentiality of supplier information
- Risk management of our suppliers
- Ensuring supplier contracts have effective clauses relating to our Sustainable Procurement Principles
- Maintaining an “arm’s length” relationship with suppliers
- Not taking advantage of mistakes made by suppliers.
We are collaborating with our clients and alliance partners to develop joint approaches to corporate responsibility in supply chains.
Wendy Irvin, our Chief Procurement Officer is committed to driving our ethical procurement policies and approaches deeper into our supply chain operations through increased monitoring.
“Trading in an ethical and socially aware way is essential for Capgemini and our clients in the 21st century. Our ethical principles have been explicitly incorporated in all of our procurement, procedures and documentation for some time now, and remain a pre-requisite for business with Capgemini. Our supply chain processes and supply contracts will be further uplifted in the coming 12 months to fully address all other corporate and social responsibility aspects, thus ensuring that Capgemini and its suppliers are world-class in every respect.”
- Wendy Irvin, Chief Procurement Officer
