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SAFER, SMARTER, GREENER

DNV GL’s innovative RSCP certification standard demonstrates your company’s ability to create long term value and ensure responsible sourcing in your supply chain. The scheme focuses on the building of shared value in a context where social development stimulates economic development, in the awareness that a business grows also through its ability to help its partners and suppliers grow. The innovation lies in the change of approach from certifying the supply chain of an organization, to certify an organization’s ability to provide value creation for all the stakeholders, along the value chain.

It’s a new method for organizations to disclose their commitment and performances for responsible supply chain management.

RSCP certification helps companies improve and verify their commitment to sustainability, corporate social responsibility, ethical business practices & behaviour and involvement of stakeholders. It is applicable to any organization with a strong commitment towards suppliers.

RESPONSIBLE SUPPLY CHAIN MANAGEMENT CERTIFICATIONHelping you create long term value

Initialy applied to the green coffee supply chain, DNV GL’s Responsible Supply Chain Process Cer-tification (RSCP) has become a model to be used for any kind of product line. The model certifies a supply chain process and is tailored to your company’s own strategic decisions and core products.

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What are the benefits of RSCP?Certification leads to improvements in a company’s internal commitment and external demonstration to:

■ Sustainability ■ Corporate Social Responsibility ■ Ethical Business Practices & Behaviour ■ Involvement of stakeholders

DNV GL’s approach also leads to a demonstration of awareness and effective management of all major risks associated with:

■ Environmental performance and pollution reduction ■ Product Quality & Consumer Issues ■ Product Safety ■ Labour & Fair Operating Practices ■ Local Community Engagement ■ Risks to human resources and human rights

DNV GL’s approachThe standard, devised by DNV GL, verifies the organization’s commitment to sustainability, evaluating strategies, roles and responsibilities, business conduct, stakeholder engagement activities, and communication about issues of social responsibility. Key factors include:

■ The organization must demonstrate awareness and management of all the risks related to its activities, including environmental factors, quality, product safety, human resources and human rights.

■ RSCP requires a solid supply chain monitoring activity. This structured process allows uniformity and contributes to a real monitoring of the supply chain process in terms of effectiveness and efficiency.

■ The KPI approach (Key Performance Indicators) helps the organization to monitor, within a context of continual improvement, its sustainability performance.

The RSCP standard has been developed as a model that can accommodate the nature of the raw materials, products and processes, as well as the organizational culture and its business environment and context. A generic solution can rarely be applied, and protocol customization is a must.

How can I prepare for certification? It is important that you and your organization approach certification against RSCP like all strategic business decisions, with a clear corporate commitment, with set target dates for implementation and effective communication throughout

the organization. Organizations that plan well will have an advantage and realise the most benefits from certification.

Organizations that plan well will have an advantage and realize the most benefits from certification. It is therefore important that you and your company are committed and set clear targets for implementation and assessment.

Before the certification process starts, your company should perform internal audits to identify potential gaps. One of the most important things to remember is that development, implementation and certification of a responsible supply chain management is a continuous journey, with the certification audit representing one element of a continuous improvement process.

Why partner with DNV GL? Driven by our purpose of safeguarding life, property and the environment, DNV GL enables organizations to advance the safety and sustainability of their business. DNV GL is a leading provider of classification, certification, verification and training services. With our origins stretching back to 1864, our reach today is global. Operating in more than 100 countries, our 16,000 professionals are dedicated to helping our customers make the world safer, smarter and greener.

As a world-leading certification body, DNV GL helps businesses assure the performance of their organizations, products, people, facilities and supply chains through certification, verification, assessment, and training services. Partnering with our customers, we build sustainable business performance and create stakeholder trust.

*Risk Based Certification is a registered EU trademark of DNV GL AS

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