Responsabilità della catena di approvvigionamento
Il nostro impegno
L'impegno di Nielsen per una buona cittadinanza aziendale e per la sostenibilità si estende alla nostra catena di fornitura, gestendo gli impatti ambientali, sociali, di governance (ESG) ed etici dei nostri acquisti. Sappiamo che la nostra spesa è una potente forza di mercato, ed è per questo che lavoriamo per gestirla in modo responsabile e sostenibile.
As a global company, we have a unique and powerful platform to impact our world for the better. Like the immense purchasing power of individual consumers, we know that our institutional spend of over $2 billion can be a demand signal in the marketplace. We intentionally leverage our spend to drive our business performance and to help:
Integrità e trasparenza
Migliorare l'integrità e la trasparenza delle catene di fornitura a livello globale
Condizioni di lavoro
Creare condizioni di lavoro più eque e umane nelle fabbriche d'oltremare
Imprese comunitarie
Sostenere le imprese locali e di proprietà diversa nelle nostre comunità
Risorse
Alleggerire il carico delle risorse del nostro pianeta
Sfide aziendali
Portare sul mercato opzioni di prodotto innovative in grado di risolvere le sfide aziendali e di affrontare al contempo le sfide sociali e ambientali.
Comprendere gli impatti della nostra catena di fornitura
Managing our supply chain’s ESG impacts begins with an understanding of the effects, both positive and negative, of our purchasing. In 2016, the first year of our program, we conducted a supply chain sustainability analysis to identify and uncover major sustainability risks and opportunities in our supply chain and to create strategies that address them. As a result, we understand our major supply chain impacts to be as follows, and we are addressing them accordingly within our own function and across functions at Nielsen.
Impatto ambientale
Impatto dell'uso di energia/emissioni di gas serra con i segmenti tecnologici e di viaggio della nostra catena di fornitura.
Impatto sociale
Rischio per i diritti umani nel segmento di produzione a contratto della nostra catena di fornitura.
Governance/impatto etico
Rischi per la privacy e la sicurezza dei dati con il segmento della pubblicità e delle ricerche di mercato della nostra catena di fornitura.
Riduzione degli impatti negativi
I segmenti della nostra catena di fornitura possono presentare rischi particolari per i nostri standard sociali ed etici a causa del loro settore e della loro posizione geografica.
Human Rights in Nielsen’s Supply Chain – The greatest human rights risk in the Nielsen supply chain is with our contract electronics manufacturers. Through our social compliance program, we work with the Tier 1 and Tier 2 suppliers in this area to assess and engage them on their human rights practices, particularly trafficking and modern slavery. Our UK Modern Slavery statement describes our efforts to mitigate the risk of modern slavery and forced labor in our supply chain.
Conflict Minerals – Nielsen is exposed to issues relating to the extraction and use of conflict minerals which may be used to finance militia operations or as a means to utilize forced labor. These minerals—Tin, Tantalum, Tungsten, and Gold or 3TG—are common components in electronics manufacture, and as such, Nielsen is exposed to the risk of sourcing conflict minerals. To mitigate this risk, Nielsen is a member of the Responsible Minerals Initiative, the primary multi-stakeholder collaboration addressing ethical raw mineral sourcing. We also conduct due diligence and publicly report on the smelters in our supply chain in our Conflict Minerals disclosure according to the Dodd-Frank Act of 2010.
Aumentare gli impatti positivi
In quanto organizzazione di servizi professionali, la spesa indiretta rappresenta la maggior parte degli impatti della nostra catena di fornitura. Abbiamo individuato numerosi modi per aumentare gli impatti positivi di questa spesa.
Partnership commerciali – Our Partnership commerciali initiatives connect us with a variety of businesses that are the driving economic forces of the future.
Environmentally Preferable Purchasing – Wherever possible, our global Sourcing organization identifies options at the product/service level to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, conserve natural resources, and reduce waste. Learn more about our policy.
Impact Sourcing – Nielsen is a founding member of the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition, a coalition of multinational corporations and suppliers committed to employing corporate procurement as an innovative means to address global poverty and economic inclusion.
Multi-stakeholder Collaborations – To create industry change and impact beyond our own supply chain, we’ve joined our efforts and our purchasing power with like-minded corporate peers as described further below.
Education and Awareness-Raising – We understand that the cumulative purchasing decisions of institutional buyers make change happen and that training and resources enable and empower those decisions. Nielsen provides education and awareness-raising efforts internally and externally to increase the awareness and practice of sustainable purchasing. We also have institutional links with DePaul University and the Illinois Institute of Technology for project-based, graduate-level internships to develop future supply chain sustainability professionals.
Il nostro approccio
Il nostro approccio è semplice: Gestiamo la nostra catena di fornitura e le nostre decisioni di acquisto per aumentare i nostri impatti ambientali, sociali e di governance/etici positivi, riducendo al contempo i nostri impatti negativi.
Politiche e processi aziendali
I nostri processi di approvvigionamento e contrattazione includono criteri ESG. Chiediamo ai fornitori di dimostrare un impegno simile, fornendo informazioni sulla sostenibilità a livello aziendale per tutta la durata della loro collaborazione con Nielsen.
Procurement practices – We specifically solicit sustainability information during supplier registration and the RFP process; this information is included as selection criteria along with our other requirements for quality, delivery, service and cost. Additionally, we use a formal, principle-based Environmentally Preferable Purchasing Policy to guide purchasing decisions at the product/service level.
Contractual requirements – Since January 2015, our standard contract terms obligate suppliers to abide by the Codice di condotta per i fornitori Nielsen. In 2016, we updated our Supplier Code based on a widely used industry standard, the Responsible Business Alliance. The code addresses the following areas: Labor (specifically Human Rights), Health and Safety, Environmental Management, Ethics, and Management Systems.
Impegno dei fornitori
Ci confrontiamo più volte all'anno con i nostri fornitori chiave, concentrandoci sulle questioni ESG.
Measurement and Disclosure – Once a key supplier enters our supply chain, we require a standardized supplier assessment on ESG performance (provided by a third party) which benchmarks our suppliers according to their industry, size and country/countries of operation, along with ESG updates during regular business reviews. The assessments and regular business reviews serve as catalysts for meaningful supplier engagement.
Continuous Improvement – Through meaningful supplier engagement, we ensure visibility into ESG risks and opportunities and drive higher standards. Our sourcing managers engage with our suppliers with the goal of quantitatively improving sustainability performance at both the supplier and product/service level.
Capacity Building – We’ve developed a Supplier Toolkit as a resource for our suppliers to improve their sustainability performance. The Supplier Toolkit includes guidance for developing social, ethical, and environmental policies, practices and reporting. Additionally, the toolkit includes a comprehensive list of 150 performance indicators that suppliers can use to track ESG performance.
Collaborazioni tra più parti interessate
We understand the challenges faced in responsible sourcing are far-reaching and best addressed in multi-stakeholder collaborations with other corporations and brands, non-profit organizations and academia, the investor community and suppliers.
In 2016, we joined the following leadership organizations in sustainable purchasing: the Sustainable Purchasing Leadership Council; the Responsible Business Alliance; the Global Impact Sourcing Coalition; the Responsible Minerals Initiative; and the Technical Advisory Group/Mirror Committee to the ISO 20400 Sustainable Procurement Standard. Through these associations, Nielsen is not just aligning with global best practices, but helping shape them.
For more in-depth information about our program, please see our Supply Chain Sustainability 2019 Report. If you are a supplier and want to help us do good in the world, submit your information on the Nielsen supplier registration page.
