While sourcing from suppliers, company should consider the ethical issues like labor ethics In which they make sure that wages paid for the workers is up to standard such as discrimination(Equal opportunities, fair treatment, and respect for everyone) and decent age. Another important factor to address is safe and hygienic conditions during working hours.
This will add advantage to selling point and increase trust on market place. Also it motivates the workers to be loyal.
Finding ethical suppliers can be costly, difficulties in managing, consumes time and need extra staff.
Contract and subcontracts are made with suppliers who are responsible and serious to licenses, labour management, health and safety conditions.
Choosing suppliers involves the below principles: * Employment of appropriate workers * Workplace safety * Pay and hours * Respect for individuals * Environmental standards * Ethical standards * Trade unions * Inspection requirements
Supplier should be transparent and ready share all kind of information with the company.
Frequent audit needs to be done to maintain the standards. consequently we believe we have a responsibility to support our home agricultural economies and to help rural communities to thrive.
Consumers expect factory-prepared and packaged food always to be perfectly safe to eat. All food producers know that to deliver this mandatory standard requires complex technical skills and disciplines, minute attention to detail, and assiduous scrutiny and checking.
We expect the highest standards of our suppliers, all of whom are audited against robust and comprehensive benchmarks on the quality of their products and the good practice of their businesses. Our programme of continually raising the bar on standards is achieved in part by consolidating our supplier base, focusing increasingly on those suppliers