供应链责任
我们的承诺
尼尔森对良好企业公民和可持续发展的承诺延伸至我们的供应链，管理我们的采购对环境、社会、治理（ESG）和道德的影响。我们知道，我们的支出是一股强大的市场力量，因此我们努力以负责任和可持续的方式进行管理。
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:
诚信和透明度
提高全球供应链的完整性和透明度
工作条件
在海外工厂创造更公平、更人道的工作条件
社区企业
支持我们社区中的多元化企业和本地企业
资源
减轻地球资源的负担
业务挑战
为市场带来创新的产品选择，既能解决业务挑战，又能应对社会和环境挑战
了解我们对供应链的影响
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.
减少负面影响
由于所处行业和地理位置的不同，我们供应链中的某些环节可能会对我们的社会和道德标准构成特殊风险。
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.
增加积极影响
作为一家专业服务机构，间接支出占我们供应链影响的绝大部分。我们已经确定了许多方法来增加间接支出的积极影响。
Business Partnerships – Our Business Partnerships 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.
我们的方法
我们的方法很简单：我们对供应链和采购决策进行管理，以增加对环境、社会和治理/道德的积极影响，同时减少负面影响。
政策和业务流程
我们的采购和签约流程包括 ESG 标准。我们要求供应商在为尼尔森提供服务的整个过程中，通过提供与可持续发展相关的公司级信息来证明类似的承诺。
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 尼尔森供应商行为准则. 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.
供应商参与
我们每年与主要供应商进行多次接触，重点关注 ESG 问题。
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.
多方利益攸关方合作
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.
