CASE STUDY

Audit campaign

• The context:
• A strong awareness on its responsibility within the supply chain existed in the company.
• The company works with various suppliers.
• No specific skills on the management of the social level of the suppliers are available in the company.
• The company wants to be aware of the social level of its suppliers to be able to implement a procurement policy matching with its philosophy.


• Actions:
1. Explanation on implication of a social audit program.
2. Consulting on the criteria, the priorities, the acceptable limits, choosing the first factories,…
3. Selection of factories by the customer, then explanation on the coming program to the factories.
4. Performing the audits.
5. Analysis and presentation of audits results.
6. Explanation on potential solutions and on the deadlock situation.
7. Decisions from the customer for each factory, case by case.


• Results:
• Argued follow up actions to manage the suppliers according to CSR.
• A new internal skill is now available allowing the company to judge its suppliers on social aspects by itself.
• A leading position according to CSR on its market.


• Testimonial :

Christine Bourge, World Buying Officer

The strategy of Anaïk for sustainable procurement, the human rights respects, the eco-design, the protection of the environment bear with shareholders wills, but also matching the market needs, with sometimes some customers, with high media exposure, very straight in their controls.
According to this situation, we have set up a privileged partnership with WethicA which back us up in our approach to carry out social audits in our factories, but above all which help, the factories and us, to remain in a continuous improvement approach.
More than a “simple” audit, which is only a “pictures” of factory praxis, it is its analysis and the following corrective actions that are the key of success of such an approach.
Thanks to Pierig Vezin, we are now able to rank our partners factories according to SA 8000 criteria, but also according to their local situation (politic and economic), in China, in India, in Turkey. Thanks to this information, to the proposal corrective actions from WethicA, but also due to our strong presence on the ground and our commercial commitments with the factories, we are now able to motivate and back up them efficiently. Indeed we notice genuine progress since one year of intense actions.