Sustainability and the supply chain
Social and environmental responsibility are key concerns for our customers. Our suppliers play a vital role in helping them achieve their sustainability goals. That’s why ensuring our suppliers align with Lyreco’s sustainability agenda is essential to delivering ethically and sustainably sourced products.
Suppliers Code of Ethics
We expect our suppliers to respect the same ethical requirements and conduct their activities in accordance with our Suppliers Code of Ethics. Compliance with our Code gives Lyreco customers the reassurance that the products and services they purchase will be supporting their own ethical standards and sustainability goals.
The Code addresses:
- Human rights
- Working conditions
- Environment and sustainable development
- Quality of products and services
- Business integrity
- Confidentiality and data protection.
Supplier Sustainability Assessment
Our tool not only assesses the current sustainability position of the supplier, but provides them with an action tool to create a roadmap on where they need to be, regarding sustainable development, in the near future. International suppliers use a similar tool designed by Cemasys.
Supplier Sustainability Action Tool
Developed in partnership with NETpositive Futures, the Supplier Sustainability Action Tool aims to embed supplier engagement and create a meaningful evidence-based action plan. Completion of the action plan will help drive our suppliers towards a more sustainable and ecologically conscious operation.
Supplier Scoring
The tool has been designed to assess our suppliers’ current sustainability strategies and support them in becoming more sustainable. It provides a bespoke action plan outlining the initiatives they need to undertake. The first part of the tool asks suppliers a series of questions structured around the core themes of ESG: Environmental, Social, and Governance.
As part of the Sustainable Selection process suppliers are required to either:
Achieve a minimum 50% pass rate on the assessment, or
Provide evidence of a third-party sustainability certification, such as EcoVadis or B Corp.
How We use it
From this, the supplier is scored 1 – 5 based on their response, evidence, and the amount of work required to implement certain initiatives in these themes. We show this supplier score through our “hearts” scoring visual.
- Gain visibility into how suppliers are integrating sustainability across their operations.
- Engage with suppliers to explore specific areas in more depth, such as social compliance and modern slavery within extended supply chains.
- Communicate and promote innovative sustainability projects our suppliers are undertaking.
- Identify opportunities to strengthen Lyreco’s own sustainability strategy through shared insights and collaboration.
What Supplier Sustainability means to us
“This supplier sustainability action tool is a huge benefit to us as an organisation to increase the transparency of our supply chain to our customers.” Andrew Bryers, Head of CSR says, “We have the strict target that 90% of our products and services needs to be sustainable by 2026, but to achieve this Lyreco needs to make sure our suppliers are aligned to our sustainability objectives. For sustainability to be fully integrated, including reducing our global impact, we all need to work together. Having this tool available to our suppliers not only shows us what they are doing but supports them to develop their own strategy.”
Social Compliance audits
