Performance on Managing Our Responsible Supply Chain

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Performance on Managing Our Responsible Supply Chain

We are in the early stages of measuring our responsible supply chain practices and expect to report on more performance indicators from 2018. During 2016, 80 global suppliers representing CHF 194 million of our global spend were invited to complete the Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire. In total, 43 suppliers (representing CHF 60 million of global spend) responded to the Questionnaire.

Proportion of local vs. global suppliers: 98.9% local vs 1.1% global
No. of suppliers completing self-assessment questionnaire: 43
No. of active projects in Supplier Innovation Club: 7
Materials consumed represent 26% out of the total annual external expenditures. This 26% is composed of three main categories, broken down as follows:

Total Materials Consumed Chart

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