Responsible production and consumption require that we look beyond the traditional aspects of cost and quality when making purchasing decisions. At Skretting and Nutreco, we have identified the relevant sustainability issues in our Business Partner Code of Conduct. With ingredients contributing a large proportion of our footprint, our procurement team is focused on minimising the impact wherever possible.
Skretting operates systematic evaluation of the sustainability risks linked to primary sources of feed ingredients and manufacturers of feed ingredients. Based on the outcome of these risk assessments the combination of primary source and manufacturer of feed ingredients must be evaluated and approved before a Skretting company can buy the feed ingredient.
We recognise that our mission can only be achieved with the cooperation of our business partners. Therefore, we have developed a Code of Conduct for Business Partners, which enables us to engage with our Business Partners on sustainability, compliance and integrity issues. We will only conduct business with companies or individuals that comply with the standards set out in our Business Partner Code of Conduct.
The production of high quality feed starts with sourcing the correct high quality ingredients. To ensure that our ingredients are of the correct quality we engage into a high level of co-operation with our suppliers.
For new ingredients and new suppliers it all starts with a mandatory approval process which aligns the ingredient’s quality criteria to our own quality criteria. For this initial assessment we require potential suppliers to provide us with:
