Responsible Sourcing
A company’s supply chain is a highly important resource – collaboration between companies at every step in the chain can open up powerful opportunities to minimize the overall environmental impact and maximize the overall positive social impact. At Henkel, our global supply chain includes business partners from more than 120 countries. Together, we want to drive progress toward 100 percent responsible sourcing.


Within our purchasing department, we are strongly committed to contribute to Henkel‘s Purposeful Growth agenda and its ambitions with our 100% Responsible Sourcing Strategy.
Bertrand Conquéret, Chief Procurement Officer (CPO) at Henkel and President of the TfS initiative

Responsible Sourcing Process
Our six-stage “Responsible Sourcing Process” is a core element of our supplier assessment approach. It focuses on two main aspects: First, ensuring that all our suppliers comply with our defined sustainability standards. Second, we aim to purposefully collaborate with our suppliers and strategic partners to continuously improve sustainability standards in our value chain – for example, through knowledge transfer and continued education about process optimization, resource efficiency, and environmental and social standards. This process is an integral part of all our purchasing activities worldwide and is implemented in all regions, in all business units and for all material groups. We perform this process both at the beginning of our relationship with a supplier and as a regular check of our existing suppliers.

Responsible Sourcing
