TRAINING & ADVISING SERVICES

1. Climate change, Energy & Carbon Emissions Services
2. Social & EHS monitoring and Remediation Programs
3. Ethical Supply Chain Management Consultancy

 

  

1. Climate change, Energy & Carbon Emissions Services

Active management of environmental impacts along your supply chain involves having an environmental policy or statement, ensuring compliance with legislation, and showing your effective commitment through voluntary initiatives

 API can offer a broad range of services (training, advisory, reporting) aimed at at promoting working conditions without compromising commercial objectives:
  • Develop your environmental policy & programme and monitor your supply base
  • Accompany you and your suppliers for compliance:
    - Legal Compliance: EU regulations such as REACH, ROHS, etc...
    - Voluntary Initiatives & Certification : Sustainable sourcing such as FSC label,
  • Advise or audit your supply base’s environmental performance:
    - Energy & Carbon Emissions
    - Environmental Management & Impact
 
Service Focus
 

Advisory

• Energy & Climate Policy Development
• Energy & Greenhouse Gas Management for CSR
• Energy efficiency programs
• Carbon emission reduction/carbon neutrality programs
• Life Cycle Analysis

Training & workshops
• Awareness Raising on Environmental Issues
• Energy & Carbon Emissions Management Training Course

 

 

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2. Social & EHS monitoring and Remediation Programs

Addressing the working conditions of workers along the supply chain, with the aim of meeting or exceeding international standards, involves having an adequate policy or statement, training and monitoring to ensure compliance and obtain certification.

API can offer a broad range of services (training, advisory, reporting) aimed at at promoting working conditions without compromising commercial objectives:

 
  • Design and Implement a Social Management Policy
  • Social System Management & EHS Management Training & Advisory
  • In-Factory Monitoring & Remediation Programmes
 
Service Focus
 

Advisory
• Diagnostic site assessments
• Collaborative Programs
• Online Collaborative Information Platforms

Training & workshops
• Awareness Raising Programmes
• Buyers Training on ethical purchasing practices
• Social Auditing Training
• Factory Managers & Workers Training on
workplace conditions

 

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3. Ethical Supply Chain Management Consultancy

In collaboration with purchasing companies, production teams and appropriate local partner organizations API can help to develop, implement and communicate on your Ethical Supply Chain Management.

With innovative and practical tools, API provides consultancy aimed at solving sensitive labor issues without compromising commercial objectives, with for instance:

  • Develop ethical supply chain strategy- Supply Chain Mapping & Risk assessment- Programmes & Projects Review
  • Implement a Social Management System
      - Production sites assessments (diagnostic & pre-audit)
    - Management Support Tools- Online collaborative information platforms- In-Factory Monitoring & Remediation Programmes
  • Communicate and report- Date Collection (GRI, AA1000) & Progress Indicators- Disclosure to Stakeholders

 
*to ensure reliability of its services and independence, API will not audit the programmes and systems it helped to design and set up.
 

 

Example
 

Ethical Supply Chain Strategy

Getting the right strategy that fits with how your business works is at the basic of your ethical sourcing, in a dynamic fashion:
- Establish principles
- Develop policies
- Implement practices and review if necessary, according to your own needs and objectives

 

Online Collaborative Platforms

As an efficient collaboration between buyers and suppliers is the key to making change, we provide you with collaborative online tools for:
- Exchange (audit reports, corrective actions plan)
- Team workspaces for focuses training (ie. Health & Safety workshops)
- Direct communication tools
 

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