Joining forces is more powerful than working in silos. So we provide a forum for our members to share and converge their approaches to assessing suppliers.
This helps minimise duplication, costs, and unnecessary use of resources and time. And ultimately, it makes supplier evaluation more effective and efficient for everyone.
We help our member companies optimise their approaches to responsible sourcing programmes, learn from each other and improve as a collective. We:
Members discuss the convergence of supplier assessment tools in this working group. They focus on audit implementation, and the role of audits in the future landscape of tools to tackle human rights and environmental due diligence. The group’s objectives are to:
A dedicated working group is leading a bespoke project, with the support of Proforest and in collaboration with the Consumer Goods Forum, to converge assessment requirements for HREDD management systems in supply chains.
Using pre-existing materials, it aims to recommend a methodology for members and beyond on conducting HREDD assessments to lessen the burden on suppliers.
The timeline for the deliverable is Q4 2024.
This is the summer 2024 update of our audited supplier list to enable member companies to view suppliers which have been audited over the last three years in view of mutual recognition. This list is updated on an annual basis and is one of our mutual recognition mechanisms.
This framework governs the mutual recognition of audits as enabled by AIM-Progress for participating members.