Unchaining Value Corporate responsibility through the value chain
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Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chain
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainWorkshop 31 October 2007
1 Background and objectives
2 Describing global value chains
3 ICT sector overview and key challenges
4 Food and beverage sector overview and key challenges
5 Issues in common
6 Small group discussions
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainBackground and objectives
― To understand challenges explore best practice
― To understand capacity building within suppliers to address environmental and social issues in the supply chain
― To explore scope for a multi-sector initiative on sustainable supply chains
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainBackground and objectives
― Fit with existing UNEP initiatives
― Partnership with UNGC
― Cross-sector or multi-sector?
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainInterviews and research
ICT
– OEMs/operators: Nokia, O2, Deutsche Telekom, HP, Panasonic
– Contract Manufacturers: Delta Electronics*
– Academia: Wuppertal Institute, Öko-Institute, Yale University
– Networks/Consultants: GRI, BSR, Verité, sustainabilityagents
– NGOs: Good Electronics, ASK, TEAN
– Unions: Unite the Union
Food
– Manufacturers: SAB Miller, Unilever
– Retailers: Carrefour, Marks & Spencer
– Fast food: McDonald’s, Starbucks
– Consultants: McKinsey
– Multistakeholder initiatives & certifications: Business Social Compliance Initiative Food Module, Common Code for the Coffee Community, Fairtrade UK, Rainforest Alliance, SAI Platform, World Cocoa Foundation
– NGOs/Think Tanks: Food Ethics Council, International Institute for Environment & Development, Oxfam
*agreed to participate, results still outstanding
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainDescribing global value chains
Raw Materials Refinement SuppliersSuppliers Manufac-turing
Manufac-turing
Testing
Testing
PackagingPackagingTransport & DistributionTransport & Distribution
Retail Customer
End Consumer
Upstream Suppliers
Potential Re-Use or Recycle
Information Management
Tier 2+ suppliers
Outsourcing
Outsourcing
Suppliers
Outsourcing
Outsourcing
R&D
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainICT sector overview and key challenges
Background F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainICT sector overview and key challenges
ICT sectorValue chains
Value chainsBackground ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainICT sector overview and key challenges
Background F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainICT sector overview and key challenges
ICT sector characteristics:
– OEMs aim for strategic long-term partnerships with suppliers of high-end components and products
– Impacts (environmental/social; across sourcing, manufacturing, use, disposal) often determined in the design phase
– Performance affected by infrastructure, education, incentives, culture, ability to reach out to workers, available technology, etc.
– Overall price pressure, outsourcing and offshoring
ICT sectorValue chains
Background F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainICT sector overview and key challenges
ICT sector responses:
– Industry-wide efforts to set minimum standards and facilitate uptake among suppliers, notably Electronic Industries Code of Conduct (EICC) and the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
– Minimal uptake among contract manufacturers– Interest in product labelling, though no significant activity
ICT sectorValue chains
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainFood sector overview and key challenges
Value chains
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainFood sector overview and key challenges
Breeder Producer
Middlemen/ Market
Middlemen / Market
Slaughterers
Distributors / Market
Processors
Restaurants
Supermarkets
Wet market
Value chains
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainFood sector overview and key challenges
Value chains
Food sector characteristics:
– Wide range of growers, from huge agri-business to smallholders, family and community farms
– Supply and distribution across processors, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, middlemen
– Size and volatility of world commodity markets– Increasing demands for traceability– Variability of supply and demand
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainFood sector overview and key challenges
Value chains
Food sector responses:
– Commodity-specific, e.g. coffee, soya, palm oil– Monitoring focused on raising performance, not compliance– Broad commitments that leverage corporate distribution and
buying power via business-NGO partnerships – Focus on benefits to suppliers, beyond cost savings and
efficiency
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainFood sector overview and key challenges
Value chains
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainIssues in common
Value chains
– Role of consumers: how important?
– Product labelling may present important opportunities
– The business case for suppliers is critical
– Collective action, partnering and free riders
– Burden of review and documentation
– Challenges in partnering upstream and downstream, e.g. planning, processing of information, coordination, training
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainThree-stage model:
Drivers
Value chains
Phase 1: Comply Risk management: Product safety, regulatory compliance, reputationBusiness value: Short-term viability, reliability and quality of supply
Heavy focus on supplier standardsCost minimisation and ‘policing’ approach to auditing
Phase 2: Compete Business value: cost savings (e.g. energy or material use reduction); improved productivity; strengthened demand from customers or consumers
Capacity-building e.g. Training programs, technical assistanceSupplier engagement in developing standards and approachesGuidelines and learningPhilanthropy
Phase 3: Lead Business value: New market creation; brand enhancement; long-term viability of supply; premium quality supplyCreating value and innovation, e.g. developing livelihoods; shaping demand and loyalty
Innovative partnerships / chain networksMultistakeholder collaboration to raise the level of the entire industryInstitutional capacity buildingEfforts to measure outcomes (rather than inputs)
Actions
Background ICT sector F&B sector Issues Small groups
Unchaining ValueCorporate responsibility through the value chainSmall group discussions
Value chains
– Part one: Major challenges within sectors; solutions needed; moving through the three phases
– Lunch break
– Part two: Highlighting good practices; evaluating success; scope for multistakeholder
initiatives