ETHICAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT

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ETHICAL SUPPLY MANAGEMENT (Principles and Standars)

Supplier and customer relationships

Supply management professionals are responsible for developing and maintaining effective business relationships wih suppliers and customers.

Open and direct communication.

Avoid unreasonable demands.

Encourage prompt and fair problem resolution.

Implement policies and procedures for business processes that are fair.

Responsibilities to your employer

The professional must serve the lawful interests of the employer.

Avoid unauthorized use of employer's name.

Notify the employers of unlawful or unethical activities.

Obtain maximun value for the employer.

Influence

A supply desicion must avoid all activity that may reduce the objectivity of a decision.

The specifications and standards must be objectively developed and communicated.

Professionals must be aware of their organization's position and esure that market power is not abused.

Business meal could be an opportunity of building business relationships.

Implementation of policies that reduce inappropriate influences on the supply process.

Conflict Interest

Professionals must not use their positions to induce another person to proovide inappropriate benefits to themselves or others.

Do not use inside information for personal gain.

Do not harm the interest of your employer.

Employees will obtain and review conflict of interest statements that encourage employees to disclose any potencial conflict of interest.

Do not be engaged with inappropriate personal business with your emplyer or employer's competitors or suppliers.

Discuss actual or potential conflicts of interest with management.

Impropriety

Interaction and treatment between professionals and customers must be honest ans fair minded.

Avoid excessive discussion of personal matters.

Select outside business and event venues with care.

Avoid actions that might create the suspicion of impropriety.

Discuss an actual potencial impropriety with management.

Identifying situations which may impact business relationships.

Professionalism in all comunications

What are used for?

It could de a model for consideration to make the organization's policies.

Emphatize the role of ethics when formulating decisions.

Guide individual and group decisions and actions

Professional competence

Developing business skills and increasing knowledge of supply management demonstrates a commintment to the profession and positively impacts you.

Become actively involved in supply management and other professional associations.

Mentor and teach those who want to learn.

Support and participate in ongoing ethics training.

Applicable laws,regulations and trade agreements

Legal concepts that govern activities as agents of their employers must be clear in every company.

Worker and safety laws and regulations

Patent, copyright, trade secret and trademark laws.

Trade agreements and regulations

Contract and commercial laws

Reciprocity

Is both a legal and ethical practice that may result in legal sanctions againts the organization, its management or its supply management.

Apply and obtain accouting in every situation.

Recognize that reciprocal relationships may be an illegal restraint of trade in some countries.

Understand suppliers that are also customers is easy if the costomer/supplier is the bet source.

Confidential and proprietary information

Recipients of confidential and proprietary information must know that they have an obligation to protect it.

Use confidential information only for its intended purpose.

Use nondisclosure agreements that state the terms for use of confidential information.

Mark and identify confidential information.

Develop and communicate a policy to protect confidential information.

Sustainability and social responsibility

Reinforce the importance of personal commitment and how such commitment impacts sustainability ans social responsibility initiatives.

Health and safety

Labor rights

Human rights

Financial integrity and transparency

Environment

Anti- corruption

PRINCIPLES

Loyalty

Value

Integrity