think of a five year road map really to get you want to get and
think about communicating out to your supplies with principles.
Getting those posted out there.
Because some of these things take time to get through your relationships
with suppliers.
So, as a company, you want to post these principles,
some of our code of ethics, and get the word out to your suppliers.
Then you want to start promoting those principles through
Perhaps an assessment that you do with suppliers that can be either one that
your company puts together on sustainability or
one that is with organizations out there that do that for you.
And in that you have your suppliers aligned with those principles principles,
and then you want to connect internally with your corporate team,
and understand the mission of your company.
And if you're fortunate,
you might have a sustainability staff within your corporate team.
It's important that you get in early with that group as your setting up
your supply chain program and align with the company and
the mission of your sustainable program.
And then, what you want to think about is what you're doing is helping other
companies get started, in many cases with their corporate sustainability programs.
So, you want to launch this off with this is what we do,
therefore this is what we expect you to do so, you kind of align all the way
from your corporate sustainability program to your suppliers.
And then you want to look at how your contract relationships are with suppliers
and in our business It takes maybe three,
four, five year cycle to ingrain new language into contract.
So you've got to, that's why the road map is important,
get the sustainability requirement, the basic requirement ironed out.
And then get it into your agreements and that's going to take some time.
>> So what are the sustainability elements,
what would you say >> You ask your suppliers to do?
>> That is part of the journey and most recently we've been looking at
elements of sustainability that really could break it down to maybe 10 elements.