We work closely with our suppliers in order to be able to offer environmentally friendly products. In a sustainable procurement strategy that is valid throughout the Group, we have defined guidelines for our procurement processes.
Our principles in this area are also enshrined in various sets of rules and standards, such as our Supplier Code of Conduct and our procurement guide (Leitfaden für den Einkauf). Our Global Procurement Policy sets forth the sustainability criteria that apply to our Procurement unit. These criteria are taken into account throughout the entire procurement process.
In 2022, we refined specific sustainability criteria for IT and network equipment and for passive products such as fiber-optic cable. On that basis, and in close cooperation with the telecommunications company Orange, we then developed a harmonized set of criteria. Since 2022, we have been applying these criteria in invitations to tender with budgets of over 10 million euros for IT/NT equipment and fiber-optic cable products, and with a 20 percent weighting factor in supplier-selection processes. In the latter, suppliers’ carbon footprints, and their commitment to ambitious climate goals, are given especially high priority, in keeping with the fact that measures to reduce carbon emissions in our supply chain (Scope 3) play a key role in our efforts to become climate-neutral, throughout our entire value chain, by no later than 2040.
In cases in which a supplier does not satisfactorily fulfill the sustainability requirements set forth in our Supplier Code of Conduct, we initiate an escalation process. We use various control instruments, such as risk analyses and audits, to review compliance with our standards. In addition, our ESG KPIs serve as an important control element in our procurement.
More information on sustainability-oriented procurement is available here.
We work closely with our suppliers in order to be able to offer environmentally friendly products. In a sustainable procurement strategy that is valid throughout the Group, we have defined guidelines for our procurement processes.
Our principles in this area are also enshrined in various sets of rules and standards, such as our Supplier Code of Conduct and our procurement guide (Leitfaden für den Einkauf). Our Global Procurement Policy sets forth the sustainability criteria that apply to our Procurement unit. These criteria are taken into account throughout the entire procurement process.
In 2022, we refined specific sustainability criteria for IT and network equipment and for passive products such as fiber-optic
cable. On that basis, and in close cooperation with the telecommunications company Orange, we then developed a harmonized set of criteria. Since 2022, we have been applying these criteria in invitations to tender with budgets of over 10 million euros for IT/NT equipment and fiber-optic cable products, and with a 20 percent weighting factor in supplier-selection processes. In the latter, suppliers’ carbon footprints, and their commitment to ambitious climate goals, are given especially high priority, in keeping with the fact that measures to reduce carbon emissions in our supply chain (Scope 3) play a key role in our efforts to become climate-neutral, throughout our entire value chain, by no later than 2040.
In cases in which a supplier does not satisfactorily fulfill the sustainability requirements set forth in our Supplier Code of Conduct, we initiate an escalation process. We use various control instruments, such as risk analyses and audits
, to review compliance with our standards. In addition, our ESG KPIs serve as an important control element in our procurement.
More information on sustainability-oriented procurement is available here.