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:
