SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY

Suppliers are vital to our business success, as well as our social and environmental efforts. Our fundamental responsibility as an employer is to keep all people who work for us safe from harm – and we do not differentiate between our own employees, in-house contractors, partners or our suppliers’ employees. Our key risks are within working conditions in our business operations, such as health and safety and labour standards including modern slavery and child labour. We believe our supply chain is an area where there is an extraordinary opportunity to improve business performance, reduce our environmental impact and positively influence social equality.

Governance

Digi’s approach to supply chain sustainability is to legally oblige the supplier to uphold responsible business practice according to our policies and Supply Chain Principles (SCP). We follow up training, questionnaires and inspections to ensure preventive strategies for Health, Safety and Security (HSS), anti-corruption programmes are in place with our suppliers as well as address sustainability risks in the downstream value chain, distribution and sales channels, with digital suppliers, as well as new digital businesses.

Key Initiatives

Compliance

Integrity is a vital part of Digi’s business, and we exercise due diligence when it comes to selection of business partners to ensure compliance with our ethical standards. We have implemented mandatory requirements for screening and conducted integrity due diligence (IDD) assessments on all business partners and suppliers. Parties with a direct contractual relationship with Digi are legally obliged to uphold responsible business practices and adhere to our SCP
In 2020, all 130 newly registered vendors signed the Agreement of Responsible Business Conduct (ABC) which communicated our anti-corruption policies and procedures. We conduct unannounced inspections annually to ensure compliance and mitigate risks

Assessments

We monitor our supply chain with risk assessments that may be carried out as part of procurement processes or as ad-hoc supplier risk assessments by using a Supplier Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ). We conducted 77 SAQs and closed findings for 51 SAQs in the year. We conducted 48 announced and 463 unannounced inspections and implemented corrective action and remedial initiatives. As a result of failing to meet our safety standards, 3 contractors were terminated

Capacity Building

All our suppliers underwent capacity building workshops accumulating 2,426 training hours in the areas of safety awareness guidelines, proper ways of using equipment and human rights awareness

SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY

Governance

Key Initiatives

Performance

GROWTH

EFFICIENCY AND SIMPLICATION

WINNING TEAM

RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS