Sustainability & responsible sourcing
Resilient supply chains with reliable partners
The aim of our purchasing strategy is to create resilient supply chains based on long-term cooperation with reliable partners. Sustainability is an important cornerstone of this strategy. We have defined clear ethical rules and incorporate social and environmental criteria into our regulations and business processes with our suppliers and we demand their compliance. ams OSRAM has implemented a respective infrastructure on tools and processes to detect the violations towards these requirements and to avoid them.
Commitment to our Code of Conduct for ams OSRAM suppliers
The Code of Conduct defines the basic requirements placed on all suppliers of ams OSRAM concerning their responsibilities towards their stakeholders, affected groups and the environment.
Read more on our Code of Conduct
Supplier management
All requirements towards our suppliers are embedded in our supplier management process and are mirrored in the supplier qualification requirements. Some of these requirements are as follows:
- Corporate responsibility self-assessment for companies in risk countries
- Compliance with RMI conflict mineral approach
- Standard certificates regarding environmental protection, health and safety (e.g. ISO14001, ISO45001, …)
- Coverage of this requirements also published in the ams OSRAM sustainability reports