Transparency and responsibility in our supply chain
The principles of sustainable corporate management, such as long-term responsibilities towards our business partners, the environment, society and our own employees, are fundamental elements of our daily actions. These principles should therefore also apply to contractors of the Jungheinrich Group.
We aim to shape the success of our products together with our contractors – the best foundation for this is a long-term, cooperative partnership. The careful selection of contractors is the basis for guaranteeing our outstanding product quality. Before a manufacturer becomes a Jungheinrich contractor, it has to meet approval criteria that are consistent throughout the entire Group.
The supporting pillars are the existing supplier manual, which must be signed by contractors of production material, the compliance regulation in our procurement contracts and our “Supplier Code of Conduct”, which reflects Jungheinrich's requirements for all of its contractors.
In these documents are the basic principles and standards of the Jungheinrich Group for contractors of production-related and non-production-related goods and services summarized. These principles are based on global acknowledged guidelines and principles for ecological and social responsibility, the ten principles of the United Nations Global Compact, internationally recognized human rights as well as labor and social standards.
In 2018, we increasingly addressed the issue of responsibility in the supply chain and developed a concept which is in implementation since 2019.
Since the end of 2019, we have been working with the sustainability platform "Integrity Next" in order to increase transparency in our supply chain. This platform is used to assess suppliers on ecological, economic and social issues. Suppliers are selected on the basis of a risk classification influenced by the product group and the suppliers locations.
Our target is to further develop sustainability together with our contractors based on the results of the assessment and thereby increase our responsibility for sustainable procurement.
Further Information on our Compliance Activities
Jungheinrich has set up a compliance profile via the Integrity Next online platform. This enables us to give all interested parties an overview of our sustainability performance. We also use Integrity Next to evaluate our suppliers.