supplier sustainability: a focus on the future
At General Mills, we partner with our suppliers in order to reduce our environmental impact. By promoting environmental initiatives throughout our supply chain, we ensure a healthy world for the future.
Our strategies
Our strategies regarding the environmental impact of our upstream suppliers relates to our mission:
Risks to our stakeholders
At General Mills, we actively improve our supplier sustainability by tracking our upstream environmental impact. Much of our environmental impact occurs outside of our operations, in the form of agriculture, ingredient production, and packaging throughout our supply chain. As such, we work closely with our suppliers to reduce our environmental impact. However, we still face challenges that impact our ability to lower the environmental impact of our supply chain, such as the following:
current key performance measures
suggested key performance measures
Types of metrics used to signal sustainability of our suppliers:
- Supplier Sustainability Scorecard: change in % of suppliers utilizing scorecard
- Environmental Impact of Suppliers: % reduction in greenhouse gas emissions, water and energy usage, waste output, etc.
- Audits: % of suppliers subject to audit by General Mills
- Code of Conduct: number of violations of our Supplier Code of Conduct