Sedex
Supplier Ethical Data Exchange
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A MACRO VIEW - LEVERAGING SUPPLIER
AUDIT DATA TO DRIVE CHANGE
Sedex Overview
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Who is Sedex?
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A not-for-profit membership
organization for businesses
committed to continuous
improvement of the ethical
performance of their supply
chains.
Offers the largest collaborative
platform for sharing ethical
supply chain data in the world, in
order to ease the burden on
suppliers facing multiple audits,
questionnaires and certifications
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560+members
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28,000+ suppliers
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150+ countries
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25+ industry sectors
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Our Membership Model
Sedex has 3 membership types
that reflect the different types of businesses in global supply chains
Visibility
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Membership
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Membership
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Membership
Information flow
Who?
Retailers, consumer brands,
government organisations
What?
View supply chain
information on the system
Who?
First tier suppliers,
manufacturers, agents,
service suppliers, utilities
What?
View and manage supply
chain information on system
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Who?
Farms, growers, factories,
service centres, production
sites
What?
Manage supply chain
information on the system
Sedex Pillars
Sedex focuses on four pillars. Members commit to
improving their supply chain performance accordingly.
Labor
Health & Safety
Environment
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Business Integrity
How does it work?
 Six industry specific interactive
questionnaires
 Hosts supporting information to aid
data verification
 Risk Assessment Tool
 Reporting Tools
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Partnership with Maplecroft
 Sedex partnered
with Maplecroft
in 2011
 Maplecroft is a
leading risk
analytics,
research and
strategic
forecasting
company
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Risk Assessment Tool
Identify the likelihood of issues occurring in
a supply chain.
Risk Assessment based on key factors:
 country of production
 product type
 site profile
 answers to self-assessment
questions
 Audit information
All sites of employment with up to date
information on Sedex can be assigned a
risk rating of: low, medium or high.
Tool developed in partnership with global
risk specialists, Maplecroft.
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Data Analysis
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Number of Sites - Global
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Total Sites - Sector
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Worker Distribution - Sector
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Sector - High Risk Sites – SAQ Risk
Apparel, Footwear, Accessories
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Sector - High Risk Sites – Inherent
Apparel, Footwear, Accessories
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Risk - A global phenomenon
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Supply Chain Complicity Risk Index
High risk countries offer greater potential – risks must be managed, not avoided
Source: Maplecroft 2013
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% Sites by Risk Rating - Regional
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High Risk Answers By Code
Global
Sector
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% Total Issues by Code vs. Average
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Issue Frequency per Audit
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Issues Over Time
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% NC’s by Status
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% Issues – Criticality & Status
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Bangladesh Case Study
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Bangladesh’s labour environment unlikely to
improve in medium term
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Powerful garment lobby resistant
to change and government
pressure
Poor regulatory frameworks
Lack of control over subcontractor networks
Severe restrictions on rights of
employees to organise
Protest against garment worker deaths, Dhaka
Credit: Flickr user Derek Blackadder
Source: Maplecroft 2013
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A look at Bangladesh
A percentage of each country’s total audited risk
Source: Sedex
Source: Maplecroft 2013
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How to Get More Information
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For More Information
http://www.sedexglobal.com/
www.sedexglobal.com/multimedia
Bernie Giblin
Bernie.Giblin@sedexglobal.com
484-650-7927
Marianne Voss
marianne.voss@sedexglobal.com
617-792-8357
http://www.sedexglobal.com/
www.sedexglobal.com/multimedia
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Maplecroft’s multi-award-winning
Global Risks Portfolio (G R P)
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Seven Maplecroft country risk atlases:
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Global Risks Atlas
Political Risk Atlas
Human Rights Risk Atlas
Legal and Regulatory Environment Risk Atlas
Natural Hazards Risk Atlas
Climate Change and Environment Risk Atlas
Growth Markets Atlas
2 Access to all Maplecroft maps and indices
covering 160 issues across 197 countries
3 Daily news analysis; Global Risks Forecast
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Policy bank, providing guidance to business
on 23 key risk issues
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Access to a curriculum of WebEx's and
over 10,000 risk analysis articles
Pre-approved purchase of briefings (3-10pp) and
6 in-depth reports (30pp), election monitors etc., on
countries/themes of your choice
All content is available organisation wide under our ‘one company, one licence’ policy.
This ensures access to our Global Risks Portfolio will be available to all client users.
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