2005 Sustainability Report - Lafarge

Tetouan
cement plant
in Morocco.
Contributing to
local economic
development
Making sustainable development
part of our economic
decision-making process
IMPLEMENTATION
OF A RESPONSIBLE
PURCHASING POLICY
Lafarge is seeking to raise the standard
of its purchasing operations, especially
by embedding sustainability criteria
into its supplier relations. Following on
pilot projects in 2004, Lafarge has
focused in 2005 on rolling out and
firmly establishing the program at
Business Units.
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Embedding sustainable
development in the Group's
purchasing practices
In 2005, Lafarge drew up ethical and
sustainability-related guidelines concerning
the management of supplier
relations. They were circulated to all
purchasing managers, purchasing
sponsors and Business Unit managers.
A program to entrench sustainable
development initiatives in Business
Units' purchasing performance plans
got under way in 2005. It will be rolled
out worldwide in 2006, and Business
Units will be assessed on the effective
integration of these initiatives in their
purchasing performance plans.
The work carried out by Lafarge to
establish environmental and social
criteria for selecting and evaluating
suppliers, which were specific to each
product category, was extended during
2005 to new categories, such as coal
and paper bags.