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Supply chain disclosure

To increase transparency in the food and agriculture sector, Nestlé periodically discloses the result of our supply chain mapping exercise for our 14 key ingredients in scope of our Responsible Sourcing program.

Knowing where the ingredients we use in our foods and beverages come from is the first step in understanding how they have been produced and to assess environmental and human rights risks in our supply chains.

We aim to map our ingredients to the point where we are able to assess compliance with our Responsible Sourcing Core Requirements and/or identify potential risks. For low-risk countries¹, this means mapping our ingredients to the sub-national region level. For all other countries, we aim to map our supply chains to the first aggregator or primary processors (e.g. mill, crash site, cooperative) who are able to assess the production practices at the origin (e.g., farm, plantation, fishery). We name this point the “intermediary supplier”.

Supply chain mapping is an exercise we carry out periodically for our 14 key ingredients in scope of our Responsible Sourcing program. This is a retrospective exercise looking at the volumes purchased during the period described in each disclosure. This is a mix of self-declaration and verification.

Since most of the ingredients in scope are not segregated, the list of intermediary suppliers in our supply chain disclosures represents those that may be present in our supply chain.

We also support increased supply chain transparency across the sector. For instance, we are one of the founding companies of the Sugar Collaboration Group, who published the Sugar Universal Mill List.

Nestlé supply chain disclosure documents:

¹ The level of risk is based on the Maplecroft database for country risks and the final score is an average of a social, rule of law and environmental scores.