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Objective

This fourth step will look at how companies and schemes can understand, share or even align each other's best practices in their individual management systems.

Several areas will be considered, such as system’s structure, codes of conduct, databases, existing tools and relationship with/recognition of other schemes. Within these areas, a number of criteria have been identified to allow mapping how the various systems are structured, which areas they cover and how they operate.

This is an area where diversity can be accommodated without compromising other parts of the convergence project.

The key objective here will be to build greater understanding, transparency and trust, allowing these various bodies to work together.

The Expert Working Group was launched in November 2009, and is constituted of the following members:

  • Lena Bergendahl, Coordinator Environmental & Social Issues, ICA
  • Giles Bolton, Ethical Trading Manager, TESCO
  • Pierre De Ginestel, Quality Director, AUCHAN
  • Carole De Montgolfier, Chef de Projet, Direction Développement Durable Groupe, CARREFOUR
  • Sunil Jacob, WAL-MART
  • Jaroslaw Kielak, Compliance Specialist, Group Staff Sustainability, IKEA
  • Tod Pepin, Senior VP Supply Chain, HANNAFORD
  • Francesca Savi, Ethical Standards Specialist, WAL-MART
  • Kent Wang, Quality and Corporate Responsibility, BEST BUY
  • Clément Warther, Director Sustainability and Risk Control, AMCOR (formerly ALCAN PACKAGING)

Development process

Drafting

The Expert Working Group has completed work on the definition of the key review criteria, allowing the execution of a gap analysis which was used as starting point to build the draft reference requirements on companies’ and schemes’ management systems. During development fo the tool it was acknowledged that buying companies' and schemes' management systems each contained sufficient specificities to warrant for the drafting of two separate tools. The EWG therefore first concentrated its efforts on buying companies' management systems, with a draft reference tool on schemes' management systems to follow.

Consultation

The first tool, the draft reference tool on Companies' Management Systems, was opened to public consultation on the GSCP website on August 17th 2010, with the consultation running through to September 30th 2010. Please follow the links to participate and access the draft reference tool and the comments form to be used to share your input with the Expert Working Group who will review and analyse all comments.