"BT launches 7-step supply chain assessment tool", 4 Jan 2016

…BT has collaborated with…Sagemcom…to pilot a new supplier sustainability assessment tool. The BT Better Future Supplier Forum’s Sustainability Assessor tool features a seven-step process that asks suppliers a series of simple questions concerning the company’s existing sustainability measures. The answers are then assessed and a comparison made with previously identified best practice case studies. The Sustainability Assessor also provides recommendations on how the supplier can improve its business practices and gain competitive advantage over its industry rivals through an improved reputation as a good corporate citizen. Sagemcom will be running the pilot programme with a selection of its own suppliers this month…BT Devices and WiFi director Erik Raphael said: “This…moves us a step closer towards ensuring supply chains around the world are embracing the most sustainable business practices possible...”…The Better Future Supplier Forum is a…forum set up to identify, collect, disseminate and implement best practice and drive innovative sustainable product and proposition development…