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D
Corporate Responsibility
D.4
Ethical excellence inAtos’ sphere of influence
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Atos’ spend 2016 by category
[G4-12]
IT
42%
Subcontracting
28%
Indirects
24%
Manufacturing
6%
distributors for IT materials
[G4-EC9]
.
spend and sign global agreements with larger suppliers, 85% the
delivery of goods and services are done at local level, reducing
our impact on the environment. This is explained by the usage of
vendors located in numerous countries or the usage of
Finally, although Global Procurement teams aims to centralize
Enhance Sustainable relation
D.4.2.2
principles to be able to work with Atos. Moreover, they should be
prepared to be assessed by EcoVadis on their Corporate
Responsibility performance at any time during their contract with
Atos.
contracts. The charter’s objective is to summarize principles and
actions undertaken by Atos Procurement department for
Corporate and Social Responsibility. It encourages Atos’
suppliers to follow the principles of the UN Global Compact in the
Atos Sustainable Supplier Charter is available on Atos website to
anyone interested to know more about Atos sustainable
procurement values. It is distributed to all suppliers participating
to a request for proposal with Atos and is attached to all
areas of human rights, labour, the environment and
anti-corruption. In the context of Request for Proposals,
suppliers are also informed that they should respect these
comments including improvement schemes.
engagement in Corporate Responsibility and required to provide
documents supporting their answers. Then, a team of CSR
experts analyses the answers and documents in detailed in order
to give a global score (out of 100), a score per area and detailed
As explained in section D.4.2.1, Atos Procurement’s objective is
to strengthen the relationship with key suppliers (Top 250) and
have all of them assessed by EcoVadis on their Corporate
Responsibility performance by end of 2019. EcoVadis
assessments are done on four levels: Environment, Labor
practices, Fair business practices and Supply chain. Suppliers are
asked to answer to a detailed questionnaire about their
the status of the ongoing assessments of strategic suppliers. In
total, at the end of 2016, Atos had a vision on 450 suppliers
EcoVadis scorecards.
In 2016, 103 suppliers have been scored or reassessed by
strategic suppliers
[AO17 and G4-SO3]
. The selection was based
on the level of spend, the category risk level and the geographic
risk. With the usage of ZEN (Atos ESN), the entire purchasing
community is aware about the relationship with EcoVadis and
EcoVadis representing 49% of the total spend and 41% of our
assessment:
The average score is 53.7 which confirm the following
a structured and proactive Corporate Responsibility approach;
•
policies and tangible actions on major topics;
•
basic reporting on actions or performance indicators;
•
company embraces continuous performance improvements on
•
corporate responsibility and should be considered for a
long-term business relationship.
Suppliers with insufficient scores (below 40/100) are required to
implement corrective action plans and to be re-evaluated after
12 months. In 2016, less than 17% of our panel had low scores,
usually because of a misunderstanding of EcoVadis assessment
cases, lead to very few or no contracts being placed with that
vendor.
process and platform. However, if a supplier refuses to
participate to EcoVadis assessment or is not willing to cooperate
with Atos to improve its CSR performance this will, in most
acquisitions.
Atos objective in 2016 is to carry out assessments on key new
suppliers from Unify, Equens and Anthelio and other planned
In 2016, Atos has been reassessed by EcoVadis on its Corporate
Responsibility performance and obtained the score 78/100,
improving last year score by 4 points.