The self-assessment questionnaire serves as a basis for the Volkswagen Group’s sustainability rating and has thereby become a relevant part of our purchasing process. In the last four years, more than 20,000 suppliers have shared information about their sustainability performance with us, enabling the Volkswagen Group to successfully communicate and evaluate our requirements towards our suppliers and manage our supply chain risks. A significant part of the overall number of SAQs shared with us have also been shared with multiple OEMs, which raises efficiencies for both business partners as well as participating OEMs.

Daniel Göhler - Head of Sustainability Management at Volkswagen Group

Overcoming the challenges faced by the sector and meeting the expectations of our customers requires the development of a network of efficient, sustainable and reliable suppliers who share the same objectives. Grupo Antolin is working with its supply chain, in alliance with NQC since 2017, to enhance the positive impacts of its business. Preventing and minimising negative impacts, helping to create sustained and sustainable growth in society, the decarbonisation of mobility, and ensuring respect for Human Rights are key to achieve this. Encouraging transparency accountability in the supply chain drives improved sustainability performance with the aim of leading the transformation of mobility from the inside.

Javier Blanco - Global Sustainability Director

Since the beginning of 2021, we have assessed almost 150 supplier SAQs via NQC’s SupplierAssurance platform with 85% green status, which fully meets our current targets. This helps us to push on our CSR/sustainability requirement to the whole supply chain, great progress has already been made for our long-term sustainability strategy.

Letty Zhao - GWM QMT