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Audits and Assessments

Resources Developed by ISM

Supply Management Audit for Social Responsibility is a beginning, thought-provoking evaluation guide for supply professionals and the organizations for which they work. The audit will assist in identifying where the organization's social responsibility performance is strong and where improvement is needed. This document is also available in PDF format.

The Social Responsibility Maturity Matrix provides a tool in Excel format for assessing the current state of an organization’s social responsibility efforts, describing the ideal end state, or "Point of Arrival" and measuring progress toward that point of arrival.

Resources Developed by Other Organizations

The following links provide additional information on social responsibility audits:

The Fair Factories Clearinghouse (FFC) is a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting workplace compliance through the sharing of factory audit information. The goal of the FFC is to provide cost-effective, web-based information to facilitate the ability of buyers to make informed sourcing decisions. FFC is the first not-for-profit group of its kind, developed through a collaborative effort by retailers, consumer brands, and trade associations and made possible through the donation of software developed and deployed in over 30 countries by Reebok International. The FFC is a secure, global database for maintaining factory compliance audit information that allows retailers and consumer brands to manage information about factory conditions. Under this system, information a company wishes to share with another company can be shared; a company's confidential information is protected.
The Global Environmental Management Initiative (GEMI) has created interactive tools and provided strategies to help business foster global environmental, healthy and safety excellence and economic success. The Web site provides a forum for corporate environmental leaders throughout the world to work together, learn from each other through the activities of work groups, benchmark with peers and create tools that can be used by GEMI members and others.
The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Supplier Self-Assessment Questionnaire is an easy to use, self-assessment tool that can help companies introduce their social and environmental expectations and engage with factory level management of their supply chains. Developed with the Electronics Industry Code of Conduct Implementation Group (EICC IG), the multiple-choice Questionnaire is an efficient screening tool that can help identify labor, ethics, health, safety or environmental issues that may require more in-depth assessments.
Social Accountability International (SAI) works to improve workplaces and combat sweatshops through the expansion and further development of the international workplace standard, SA8000, and the associated SA8000 verification system. SAI is a U.S.-based, nonprofit organization dedicated to the development, implementation and oversight of voluntary verifiable social accountability standards.