Question: In the modern slavery statement, does the company explain one or more of the corrective steps it has taken (or would take) in response to modern slavery incidents in their operations and/or supply chain?
Answer:
Corrective action plan
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Walk Free
Ocado Group plc
2016
Unverified - Added by Steward
updated almost 3 years ago by Gabby

Edit: Cancel Contracts and Corrective Action Plan

The Modern Slavery Statement provided describes how Ocado uses the programme Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (SEDEX) as a form of their supplier management system:

´´We require that all of our own brand suppliers

are also members of SEDEX, with a completed SEDEX Members Ethical Trading Audit (SMETA)

or equivalent audit no older than three years, for both primary and secondary tiers.

1.

New suppliers are required to complete ethical trade requirements and supply

chain questionnaires.

2.

We carry out a technical audit which includes ethical requirements.

Any non-conformances will be validated by a corrective action plan (CAP)

and risk assessed before proceeding any further.

3.

Once steps one and two are approved, each supplier is added to Ocado’s internal

supplier tracking database and links its supply chain to Ocado through SEDEX, where a

third party SMETA or ethical audit is uploaded within 90 days. We review and monitor

suppliers’ reports on SEDEX for any non-compliances. Where appropriate we require the

supplier to implement a CAP followed by a third party audit.

4.

We check CAP compliance for remediation or as a last resort terminate contracts with

suppliers who continually fail to implement CAP.``

Elena Collin.....2017-10-17 12:06:28 UTC


2. We carry out a technical audit which includes ethical requirements.Any non-conformances will be validated by a corrective action plan (CAP)and risk assessed before proceeding any further.3. Once steps one and two are approved, each supplier is added to Ocado’s internalsupplier tracking database and links its supply chain to Ocado through SEDEX, where athird party SMETA or ethical audit is uploaded within 90 days. We review and monitorsuppliers’ reports on SEDEX for any non-compliances. Where appropriate we require thesupplier to implement a CAP followed by a third party audit.2

Gabby.....2021-04-27 07:31:39 UTC