At BD, we believe that our strong supplier partnerships are key to advancing the world of health by delivering innovative solutions in an ethically, environmentally, and socially sustainable way.
The BD Supply Chain Resiliency and Responsible Sourcing program works collaboratively across the company to seek out opportunities to engage with our suppliers and improve our environmental, social, and governance impacts. By doing so, we will mitigate risks, meet key compliance requirements, create shared value, and positively impact the communities and individuals with whom we conduct business. At BD, we understand that our supply chain has a significant impact on various ESG topics. By actively collaborating with our suppliers to manage these impacts, we can work together towards improvement.
As part of this work, BD seeks to ensure that suppliers have policies and appropriate practices in place to cover things like Human Rights Due Diligence in the Supply Chain, Conflict Minerals, Risk, Information Security, Quality, Emissions Reductions, and Supplier Diversity. We ask suppliers to demonstrate compliance with our Expectations for Suppliers; the foundation of this program. We also provide tools, resources, trainings, and best practice guides to support supplier development efforts on each of these pillars. Suppliers also have access to the BD Responsible Sourcing Toolkit, designed to build supplier capacity on these topics. Reach out to BDResponsibleSourcing@bd.com to get access to the toolkit.
Human Rights Due Diligence at BD focuses on evaluating our supply base for human rights risk and assigning corrective actions where suppliers should improve their practices. Our aim is to ensure that our supply chain is free from human rights abuses and is promoting good work opportunities across the communities we buy from.
BD is committed to protecting the planet and collaborating with stakeholders across our supply chain to address the effects of climate change. We motivate our suppliers to disclose their environmental performance and usage of various materials of concern, and will actively engage and collaborate with them to reduce our Scope 3 carbon emissions.
Through the BD Supplier Diversity program, we focus on creating positive community impact through a diversified supply base. In this program, we actively work to advance economies in the communities of the customers and patients we serve.
Our Supply Chain Resiliency efforts focus on delivering supplier resiliency and continuity of supply to ensure our commitments to healthcare are met.
At BD, we are on a journey toward advancing cybersecurity maturity in our products, manufacturing operational technology (OT), and enterprise information technology (IT). Our Supplier Cybersecurity Program vets and applies risk-based controls to suppliers who access, manage, operate, administer, or process BD information or assets.
Supplier Quality is responsible for establishing and implementing global processes and essential tools to enable effective supplier qualification, performance management, and development through partnership with suppliers and key functional groups.
