Sedex is a global organization that facilitates the activities of its members in the global supply chain. Sedex, which develops responsible and ethical business practices and improvement processes in the global supply chain, aims to develop the companies in the supply chain in ethical trade.
The Sedex approach helps buyers and suppliers to better manage social and environmental risks in the sharing and exchange of data and to use them correctly and positively with responsible resources. To this end, it provides tools and guidance services and provides training to help companies map and manage risks in the supply chain.
Today, in more than 150 countries, more than one thousand 40 businesses are members of Sedex in the sector close to 50, including food, agriculture, financial services, clothing and apparel, packaging and chemicals.
One of the biggest challenges companies face in today's business relationships is managing risks that arise from the complexity of the supply chain. Having too many companies in the supply chain and following them makes it difficult for companies to be aware of the risks that affect their activities. Therefore, using Sedex tools and services helps companies make informed and accurate decisions and improve their performance in the areas of work rights, health and safety, environment and business ethics.
The Sedex organization has 15 years of expertise in responsible resource use and works with the world's most renowned organizations such as the United Nations and the Ethical Trading Initiative. Sedex believes in the importance of working with the right information and technologies in the future of global trade.
Today, many companies use Sedex to manage their performance in labor rights, health and safety, the environment and business ethics. It allows Sedex members to combine many different data, standards and certifications, make informed business decisions and continuously improve value chains.
Businesses that want to ensure that companies in the supply chain are fair, to understand the impact of new regulations on business activities in a timely manner and to reduce risks in a fast-changing, interconnected business environment become members of the Sedex organization.
The fact that supplier companies operate in accordance with different legal regulations and different customer standards and have ethical business practices and business processes depend on their knowledge and data storage and sharing systems. Every day, Sedex acts in parallel with the difference in global operating environments and creates policies that produce solutions.
Sedex is the perfect solution to minimize risks, protect the image of the company, monitor and support activities on the supply chain, and manage the supply chain in an innovative and efficient manner. Participating companies can connect to a common database and participate in the activities and contact other members.
In the Sedex organization, the analysis and evaluation reports of the companies that undergo ethical social compliance reviews are open to other member companies.
Whether it is a global retailer, a manufacturer, an international representative, or a single production zone, the Sedex organization helps facilitate responsible business. By participating in this organization, Sedex members not only received service, but also joined a global community of leaders in finding responsible resources.
By managing their data on ethical performance, member companies save labor, time and costs and obtain information to support continuous improvement.
Members of Sedex products and services can manage multi-layered and responsible resource data in a simple and efficient way. It utilizes standard formats and reports and collaborates with other members by sharing common information.
The Sedex organization offers cost effective solutions. The Sedex scale and expertise help bring members together to ensure convergence between different industry standards and methodologies.
Sedex sees supply chain management as a continuous collaborative development process. Audit methods help enterprises identify opportunities for improvement and work with suppliers to make changes. It aims to replicate by allowing supplier companies to share a data set with more than one company. In this way, the organization's audit fatigue is reduced.
In short, Sedex allows its members to take control. Sedex is the world's largest partner platform that allows members to capture, analyze, and manage risk information across the supply chain.
The Sedex organization provides the following main services for the buyer, supplier or auditor to enable them to make use of the products and services in a series:
Supplier plus service: It is a service for suppliers who want to benefit more from membership, want to invest in their business and improve their ethical performance more.
Worker welfare assessment service: It is a tool that measures employee satisfaction and job quality to support buyers and employers. Companies must go beyond compliance and measure their impact on employees' lives.
Sedex advanced service: Firms wishing to manage risks and maintain corporate reputation are obliged to control the ethical, environmental and social practices of their suppliers. This service is called an ethical data platform.
Sedex e-learning service: It is necessary to understand the priority areas in order to increase the knowledge of employees about sustainability and to find responsible resources. This service provides transportation from the desired location at any time.
Data monitoring service: It is a supply chain data analysis tool. Data should be evaluated well.
Forced labor indicator reports service: It is important for companies to endeavor to eliminate the compulsory labor force. A variety of indicators, both independent and in combination, are presented and new reporting tools identify the points of forced labor in the supply chain.
Offline control tool: This service has been developed to enable auditors to collect data immediately and prepare corrective action plans.
Sedex is an acronym for Supplier Ethical Data Exchange in English, meaning supplier ethical data sharing. In short, this organization supports the development of responsible and ethical business practices in supply chains on a global scale. It is a social compliance initiative designed by non-governmental organizations, trade associations and member firms in the UK.
While developing this initiative, it is aimed primarily to ensure that the working conditions of the employees working in the companies producing for the UK market comply with international working standards. However, this social enterprise became widespread in a short time.
Companies on a supply chain join Sedex to participate in working groups, take part in joint decisions, use the common database, and contact other members. The documents used by Sedex are accepted as good practices that can serve as an example for the companies.
In general, the Sedex organization focuses on the following four pillars: labor standards, health and safety, environmental and business ethics. All Sedex members are committed to improving supply chain performance within the framework of these key approaches.
First, it is determined whether the organization meets the mandatory requirements of the standard and whether to proceed to the next stage.
It is checked whether necessary procedures and audits have been developed and your institution's readiness for evaluation is reviewed.
The findings that arise in the first two stages are evaluated and after all corrective actions are reviewed, document preparation is started.
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