Ultimately, our supply chain management
should help our suppliers
to improve their performance and
create a positive impact for the
livelihood of their about 1.6 million
workers and their communities. We
measure each supplier factory’s sustainability
performance through our
ICoC index. Our aim is to increase
the average ICoC index across our
entire supplier factory base year-toyear.
This is despite the fact that we
are constantly improving our auditing
methods and increasing demands.
Also, adding new factories normally
has a negative effect on the total
average, as factories usually improve
their scores during their partnership
with us. We achieved this goal
in 2014 with ICoC scores increasing
to 81 (max. score: 100, 2013: 77.8,
2012: 77.3, 2011: 76.5). You can find
a detailed breakdown of our supplier
factories’ compliance with all of the over 200 items from our Full Audit
Programme questionnaire here.
Please find an independent assurance
statement related to GRI AF14
(p. 112).