Performance Report 2022 What. Products We. People Do. Operations & Value. Governance GRI Content Index Supplier due diligence Own Approved suppliers by our Supplier Responsible Sourcing: Chain-Up! disclosure: third-party assessment, in % Raw materials evaluated as per Step 1: Sign and adhere to the Supplier standardized 100 action plan towards a reassessment. This process allows CSR guidelines Code of Conduct us to take our suppliers with us as we move our industry in GRI 308-1: 81 It is essential that we have an effective way of managing the the right direction. The procurement team monitors the raw New suppliers 78 suppliers that support us at different locations around the material spending with EcoVadis approved suppliers on a that were 80 75 screened using world. To do this, we have used a collaborative tool that global level, and check the suppliers’ EcoVadis scorecard environmental helps our sites manage the process locally and monitor the when they are newly introduced. criteria 83.333333 GRI 308-2: status of every single supplier since the introduction of our Negative 60 Supplier Code of Conduct in 2017. environmental Step 3: Conduct in-house audits impacts in the supply chain We conduct our own in-house audits on selected key and actions 40 Step 2: Conduct third-party assessments suppliers to verify their compliance with our Corporate taken 66.666667 GRI 414-1: We ask all our raw material suppliers to conduct EcoVadis Social Responsibility and quality expectations. Our New suppliers assessments. EcoVadis is a global provider of sustainability procurement team selects suppliers to audit based on a that were 20 ratings. Its ratings cover a broad range of non-financial risk assessment that includes factors such as geographic screened using social criteria management systems including environment, labor and location, industry or sector, self-assessment results, length GRI 414-2: 50.000000human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement impacts. of relationship and previous performance. We work together Negative social These are rated via in-depth assessments that require with the audited supplier to improve quality control and impacts in the 0 suppliers to provide proof for each of their claims. A supplier sustainability performance, share proposals for improvement supply chain and actions must score a minimum of 40 points in each of the four and request action plans within a specific time period. This taken 2020 2021 2022 segments of the assessment to achieve Beckers’ approval. approach has brought about remarkable improvements. Those who fail must work through a transparent corrective Step 1 Step 2 Step 3 Sign and adhere to the Conduct third-party assessments Conduct in-house audits Supplier Code of Conduct 37 Supplier due diligence