Consultancy for Social Compliance / Best Ethical Practices

Social Compliance or Best Ethical Practices in any organisation is dedicated to driving improvements in ethical and responsible business practices in global supply chains. It is a secure online platform for sharing and viewing information on labour standards, health and safety as well as the environment and business ethics. Global Manager Group's consultancy helps an organization to implement social compliance based system and assure best ethical practices that reduces risk, protect company reputation and improve supply chain practices. The social compliance systems incude the requirements of ECOVADIS, TFS, BSCI etc related to social compliances.

Social compliance is the largest collaborative platform for sharing ethical supply chain data, which is a not-for-profit membership organization.

Process of Social Compliance Certification

Social Compliance is not a standard setting body, code of conduct or certification. Instead the role of any standard is to enable you to effectively share and manage supply chain information, with the aim of driving continuous improvement. SEDEX has two aims, one is to ease the burden on suppliers facing multiple audits, questionnaires and certifications, and the other is to drive improvements in the ethical performance of global supply chains. Punyam.com is having experienced team for SEDEX certification consultants who guide clients to make process quick and effective. The SEDEX certificate is given by recognized certifying body and they carry out site audit for SEDEX certification. After certification they carry out annual certification audit.

Steps for Social Compliance Certification Consultancy by Punyam.com

• Micro-level survey of the existing system
• Prepare the Social compliance documentation
• Make registration on Social Compliance .
• Conduct awareness program (top + middle + bottom level).
• Form a steering committee and task-force for each level of committee
• Identify and define process approach
• Define policy and establish objectives
• Prepare documents of social compliance management system.
• Implementation and training of all personnel in the use of procedures and formats.
• Self-assessment of the system
• Assess the system through first internal audit.
• Take corrective actions for non-conformities.
• Apply for audit.
• Complete the audit.

Benefits of Social compliance or Best Ethical Practices Certification

• Drives improvements in ethical and responsible business practices
• Increase s efficiency
• Saves time and resources
• Improves supplier engagement
• Boosts productivity
• Reduces reputational risk
• Helps gain competitive advantage
• Helps drive collaboration and reduce duplication

Best Ethical Practices Requirements

For Best Ethical Practices requirements SMETA (SEDEX Members Ethical Trade Audit) is done by the certifying body.

The basic Best Ethical Practices requirements are as below:

• Labour standards
• Health and safety
• Environment
• Business practices.