Our 2010 Achievements
Building on years of experience, we enhanced our supplier evaluation progress in 2009, helping to ensure that CR becomes part of everyday practice in all purchasing processes.
In 2010, the percentage of spend assessed on CR jumped from 66 to 71% compared with 2009. This is because purchasing activities have been focusing more on key and preferred suppliers, nearly all of which had an EcoVadis CR assessment. The proportion of spending with satisfactory suppliers remained stable at 79%.
The year's main achievements was the massive launch of improvement plans for suppliers whose CR rating results were unsatisfactory, to meet our objective to have 80% of our active suppliers satisfactory by 2012. With 53% of suppliers assessed satisfactory in 2010, Alcatel-Lucent engaged with hundreds of suppliers to make them improve their management of social, environmental, health and safety and ethical topics and developed tools and methodologies to support their efforts.
Alcatel-Lucent CR Supplier Assessments 2005-2010
Alcatel-Lucent Diversity Program
Alcatel-Lucent was named one of America's Top Corporations for Women Business Entreprises by the Women's Business Entreprise Council for the third consecutive year in 2010. The award recognizes corporations with world-class programs that create level playing fields for women's business enterprises to compete for corporate contracts. Alcatel-Lucent was also cited as one of America's 10 Best Corporations for Veteran-Owned Businesses for 2010 by the U.S. National Veterans Business Organization (NaVOBA) for the third year in a row.
CR Workshop at the Supplier Convention
As in 2010, Alcatel-Lucent held a global Supplier Convention in Shanghai in April 2011 to present its purchasing strategy and expectation to stakeholders. The Convention second day was dedicated to a Corporate Responsibility workshop with Chinese suppliers. Presentations included Alcatel-Lucent expectations and tools for suppliers on CR, a description of water pollution issues by IPE, a local NGO, EcoVadis exposing CR management systems assessment methodology, and 2 suppliers presenting their best practices on Corporate Responsibility. This event was a major awareness and understanding-raising experience for suppliers, as well as a first step towards further cooperative discussions.
Targeted Purchasing Program
On top of its standard requirements and assessment program, Alcatel-Lucent identified the need to define product or service-specific CR requirements for procurement sectors, whenever sustainable offer can be triggered or is available.
Originally started for environmental initiatives for some commodities in the own use procurement field, the targeted purchasing program has been enlarged to ethics, social and health & safety aspects, and expanded to a broader set of commodities, including the customer project installation field.
A first step of the program consisted in understanding purchase commodity specific issues and identifying CR best practices. The aim is to integrate these best practices in the specification of products and services, supplier identification, supplier selection and operational CR performance.
