Suppliers
Colombina works alongside allies in a shared business strategy that fosters sustainability management throughout our value chain.
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Colombina Supplier Programs
Big Brother
Our Big Brother program has been one of our most significant endeavors in fostering competitiveness
and building a business network. The Big Brother program bolsters our suppliers by imparting Best
Practices aimed at enhancing their production, administrative, and commercial processes, while
equipping them with the tools to become exporting firms.
Currently, we have 63 supplier companies in Colombia and Guatemala. We have recently implemented a
new structuring for the program to expand its coverage from national to international suppliers.
This was done by establishing coordination within our Supply Chain Department and designated leaders
at every plant who are in place to facilitate the program's implementation.
Big-Brother Sponsored Suppliers
Since the inception of our program to date, Colombina has sponsored 63 supplier companies for
wider-impact business networking, which has contributed to regional development. Colombina’s
hope is that each one of its sponsored suppliers will go on to replicate this same model within
their own value chains.
Our current list of Big Brother suppliers:
Supplier Certification Program
Through our Supplier Certification Program, Colombina aims to bolster teamwork, establish lasting
relationships, and align suppliers with integrated management systems, ensuring their continuous
improvement translates into product and service quality.
Colombina certifies suppliers who have demonstrated top performance on indicators measured
throughout the program’s 3 phases. In addition, it certifies those able to meet the highest
standards of quality and safety to ensure food security within the supply chain itself.
The program is backed and certified by the shared SGS Colombia seal, which upholds transparency in
partner assessment.
Currently, we have 59 certified suppliers who provide us with transportation, raw materials, and
packaging in Colombia and Guatemala.
Certified Suppliers:
Social and Environmental Assessment
Colombina opts to work with suppliers with solid social, environmental, and corporate governance
management. These companies continuously measure their value chain with the sole objective of
strengthening their various areas of impact such as governance, community, workers, environment, and
customers. To strengthen our suppliers, we work on a program called "Measure what
Matters+Colombina" using a measurement tool called Impact Evaluation B.
Colombina has evaluated 295 suppliers in social and environmental practices.
We have accompanied and trained 119 companies who were in need of
strengthening their social and environmental practices.
Impact-areas measured in this scheme:
Supplier Policy
Colombina works alongside allies who have a stake in a shared business strategy and who are instrumental
to Sustainability Management along the length and breadth of Colombina’s value chain.
We start out with principles of trust and mutual respect, creating long-term relationships that allow us
to promote compliance with the fundamental principles inherent to:
•Human Rights
•Work Standards
•Environment
•Anti-corruption
These principles shall be adopted and validated throughout our supply chain by means of the following
guidelines:
