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<p>Sustainable supplier development helps to improve mutually the supplier’s as well as the buying company sustainability performance. The producer could choose guidance, compliance or capacity building activities to develop its supplier or implement them all. This paper aims to present how the car producers practice sustainable supplier development taking into account different types of approaches and implementation tools. The authors applied content analysis to investigate approaches of six car producers from EU member states. The data was collected from the sustainability reports and complemented with the available information of the supplier sustainability requirements and the code of conduct of each car producer. The findings revealed that analysed car producers use similar approaches to develop their suppliers in the context of sustainability. All of them use mix of activities from all identified categories and collaborate within industry initiatives devoted to spread sustainability in supply chain.</p>
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Sustainable supplier development helps to improve mutually the supplier’s as well as the buying company sustainability performance. The producer could choose guidance, compliance or capacity building activities to develop its supplier or implement them all. This paper aims to present how the car producers practice sustainable supplier development taking into account different types of approaches and implementation tools. The authors applied content analysis to investigate approaches of six car producers from EU member states. The data was collected from the sustainability reports and complemented with the available information of the supplier sustainability requirements and the code of conduct of each car producer. The findings revealed that analysed car producers use similar approaches to develop their suppliers in the context of sustainability. All of them use mix of activities from all identified categories and collaborate within industry initiatives devoted to spread sustainability in supply chain.

How car producers are driving toward sustainable supplier development

Escuela Politecnica Superior, Universidad de Burgos

Nanjing University of Aeronautics and Astronautics

Production Engineering Archives

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Sustainable supplier development helps to improve mutually the supplier’s as well as the buying company sustainability performance. The producer could choose...

How car producers are driving toward sustainable supplier development

Published Online: Aug 05, 2022

Page range: 268 - 278

Received: May 11, 2022

Accepted: Jun 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2022.28.33

Keywords
sustainability, supplier development, automotive, CSR report

© 2022 Patrycja Hąbek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

How car producers are driving toward sustainable supplier development

Published Online: Aug 05, 2022

Page range: 268 - 278

Received: May 11, 2022

Accepted: Jun 28, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.30657/pea.2022.28.33

Keywordssustainability, supplier development, automotive, CSR report

© 2022 Patrycja Hąbek et al., published by Sciendo

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License.

Keywords
sustainability, supplier development, automotive, CSR report