Environment, objectives and management approach

Swisscom is committed to improving the working conditions of its suppliers’ employees and to ensuring compliance with social and environmental standards throughout the supply chain. It expects its direct suppliers and their sub-suppliers to commit to acting in a sustainable manner.

Goal 8 DECENT WORK AND ECONOMIC GROWTH

The principles that Swisscom observes are stipulated in its purchasing policy, which is defined by an overarching committee, the Swisscom Purchasing Board. The purchasing policy sets out the principles and procedures to be followed by the procurement organisations and stipulates the requirements that suppliers accept by signing the Corporate Responsibility Contract Annex (CRCA). Swisscom uses a structured risk management system to review suppliers’ compliance with the requirements. It expanded this system on a conceptual level in 2016 and implemented it in the purchasing organisation. The system covers all risk areas along the supply chain.

With a score of 80 out of 100 in the supply chain rating of the Dow Jones Sustainability Index (prior year: 96) and inclusion on the Carbon Disclosure Project (CDP) Supplier and Climate A List, Swisscom once again ranks among the best telecoms companies.