Supplier Evaluation System Motorola And Nokia

MotorolaÐ'Ò's Supplier Evaluation system:

MotorolaÐ'Ò's expectations for its suppliers are based on the companyÐ'Ò's key beliefs of “Uncompromising Integrity” and “Constant respect for people”. As a consequence, they evaluate its supplier in the following areas: Compliance; Anti-corruption; Unfair business practices; Anti-discrimination; Humane treatment of workers; Working hours and wages; Safety and health; and Environmental sustainability. In order to have a deeper knowledge of this evaluation system is worth to summarize what the mentioned areas involve:

Compliance: Suppliers will maintain compliance systems and be able to demonstrate a satisfactory record of compliance with law in the conduct of its business.

Anti-corruption: Suppliers will conduct their business without engaging in corrupt practices, including public or private bribery or kickbacks. Suppliers will maintain integrity, transparency and accuracy in corporate record keeping.

No unfair business practices: Suppliers will act with integrity and lawfully in the proper handling of competitive data, proprietary information and other intellectual property; and comply with legal requirements regarding fair competition and antitrust, and accurate and truthful marketing.

Anti-discrimination: Suppliers will employ workers on the basis of their ability to do the job, not on the basis of their personal characteristics or beliefs.

No forced labor: Suppliers will not use forced, prison or indentured labor, including debt bondage.

No child labor: Suppliers will ensure that their hiring practices are in conformance with International Labor Organization (ILO) and ILO Conventions for minimum age (Convention 138 or C138) and child labor (C182).

Freedom of association: Suppliers will allow their workers the right to join, or to refrain from joining, associations of their own choosing, unless otherwise prohibited by law.

Fair working hours and wages: Suppliers will manage operations in ways that overtime does not exceed levels that create inhumane working conditions. Where there are no applicable laws, Suppliers will not require, on a regularly scheduled basis, work in excess of six consecutive days without a rest day. Workers are to be paid at least the minimum legal wage and, where no wage law exists, the local industry standard.

Safe and healthy working conditions: Suppliers will operate a safe and healthy work environment. Suppliers that provide housing or eating facilities will operate and maintain them in a safe, sanitary and dignified manner.

Environmental sustainability: Includes 3 aspects:

1) Environmental Management System (EMS): Suppliers of goods will have an EMS in accordance with ISO 14001 or equivalent. The EMS must be implemented and functioning. Third party registration is strongly recommended but not required.

2) Material Disclosure: Motorola encourages its suppliers to provide them with environmentally preferred products. Specifically, they encourage their suppliers to create products that are energy efficient, highly recyclable and contain significant amounts of recycled materials and low amounts of hazardous materials.

3) Ozone Depleting Substances: It is Motorola's policy to eliminate from Motorola products any components вЂ" including components provided by our suppliers вЂ" that contain or that are manufactured with a process that uses any Class I ozone-depleting substance.

NokiaÐ'Ò's Suppliers Evaluation System:

In order to evaluate its suppliers, Nokia have developed a set of global Nokia Supplier Requirements (NSR), which include specified environmental and social requirements based on international standards ISO 14001, SA 8000, OHSAS 18001, PCMM and ILO, and UN conventions. They also accept other standards and management system which are equivalent to or exceed their own requirements. It is also important to notice that Nokia is continuously improving their requirements and updating them.

NokiaÐ'Ò's supplier evaluation can be divided in three categories: Ethical, Environmental and Managerial. The fist one is related essentially to the human resources management, which concerns the workforce planning and recruiting policies; resources planning; recruiting and exit procedures; non-disclosure and confidentially agreements; occupational health and safety protection; employees’ working conditions, wages, treatment, competences, satisfaction, development and complaint channels.

In what the environmental aspect concerns, Nokia states that its