F. SUSTAINABILITY ISSUES

KEY PROCUREMENT AND SUPPLY CHAIN SUSTAINABILITY PRACTICES:

SOCIAL ASPECT:

1. Cocoa Life :

This program improves the living of cocoa farmers and their communities through helping them to become educated and grow the crops which can improve Cocoa Plantation in the current situation of climate change.

Cocoa Life is active across more than 795 cocoa farming communities around the world which is aiding them across different sector such as education, healthcare, infrastructure and other priorities.
Third party survey has found that this program has helped farmers’ affiliated to the program increase their incomes by 49 per cent more than others outside the program in Ghana.
In addition to the Fairtrade policies, Cocoa Life program is also supported by other NGOs with Voluntary Services Overseas (VSO), Save The Children, CARE International, World Vision, and Solidaridad.

2. Responsible Sourcing:

Mondelez adheres to Supplier Ethical Data Exchange (Sedex) Member Ethical Trade Audit which evaluates suppliers against a common set of Corporate Social Responsibility standards to drive efficiency on performance improvement for the consumer goods industry.

3. Human Rights:

Parent company comply with all applicable laws in the jurisdictions where it operates and subscribe in principle to the United Nations Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), as a standard for preventing and addressing the risk of adverse impact on human rights by businesses.

4. Play Project

In Australia, we have committed over $3 million for a three year partnership with Football Federation Australia to create the country’s largest healthy lifestyles program for kids. Play Project is an active play program that delivers fun and engaging workshops to primary school students in New South Wales and Victoria. You can find out more about the program at

5. Cadbury Fundraiser

Throughout Australia, Cadbury Fundraiser helps many organisations achieve their fundraising goals by providing a wide range of top selling Cadbury products for sale

ENVIRONMENT ASPECT:

1. Lifecycle assessment (lca)

Mondelez measures company's total land, air and water footprint focusing on impact areas of Agriculture and Manufacturing and packaging material. LCA data is updated annually which helps Mondelez to refine focus on commodities that contribute the most to greenhouse gas emissions and water footprint in the supply chain .

2. Climate change :

Parent company focuses on reducing the greenhouse gas impact of operations and supply chains. It also secures supplies of key ingredients by helping farmers adapt to changing climate. Along with members of the Consumer Goods Forum, it support efforts to help end deforestation in key commodity supplies by 2020 and to started phasing out HFC refrigerants from 2015, as a way to fight climate change.

3. Packaging :

Company team have worked to optimize packaging design and source materials that perform and protect with the minimum packaging possible. Around 70 percent of its paper-based packaging is from recycled sources. The remaining 25 percent of packaging is predominately thin flexible films, which are optimized to limit food waste and spoilage. Where possible, it usees single material types rather than multi-material laminates.

As per Pageli and Wu (2009), define Sustainable supply chain management as the managerial decisions and behaviours designed to ensure that a supply chain performs well in the Triple Bottom Line (TBL) i.e. Social, environmental (or ecological) and financial dimensions to create a truly sustainable supply chain. Thus, as per key procurement and supply chain sustainability practices followed by Cadbury's Parent Company, it is evident that it goes beyond their immediate concern of gaining profit, and take appropriate steps to protect the environment and stakeholders’ interests.

As per Seuring and Muller (2008), most of the pressure to implement sustainable supply chain management comes from external pressure and incentives set by different group of stakeholders which are Customers and Government. Customers these days are more concerned with the environment and people, so there is pressure as well as incentive from Customers for the use of Cadbury Product. Government factor comes from regulations which affect supply chain for its adherence to the local laws. Cadbury being subsidiary of Mondelez International, has a wider plan to achieve sustainability in its operation through various programs at National and International level which can help it increase its footprint in non-existing or low presence market.

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