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The world is in transition. To respect human rights, safeguard our natural resources and ensure future generations will inherit a liveable planet, sustainable solutions are required.
Sustainable Supply Chain Consultants (SSC-Consultants) helps visionaries designing new futures, exploring new ways to work together, and crafting new strategies.
We offer strategic guidance and support with the implementation of International Responsible Business Conduct (RBC), International Corporate Social Responsibility (ICSR) and sustainability due diligence in supply chains, to sectors, companies, NGOs, governments, multistakeholder initiatives and international institutions.
We monitor and evaluate what works, and help organisations implement best practices to safeguard human rights, conserve nature and address environmental risks.
We offer the following sustainable supply chain products and services:
Support to RBC multi-stakeholder sector initiatives with implementing OECD due diligence:
CSR due diligence consulting for individual organisations:
Strategies, Trainings and Evaluations facilitating sustainable value chains, for organisations, companies and sectors:
A selection of completed projects undertaken by Sustainable Supply Chain Consultants:
Developed tools for a middle size business with an international market, such as an internal Code of Conduct, Code of Conduct for Business Partners, training on Human and Labour Rights, etc -taking into account its QHSE Management System- and evaluated progress based on the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises.
Performed a RBC risk inventorisation and developed a strategy and practical action plan together with a small business selling solar systems in Africa, based on the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises
Performed sustainability audits for several plywood producing companies in Latin America, to contribute to improvement of RBC in the timber supply chain.
Provided a workshop and drafting the due diligence guidance for the Agreement to Stimulate Sustainable Forest management
A selection of completed projects is the following:
Developed tools for a middle size business with an international market, such as an internal Code of Conduct, Code of Conduct for Business Partners, training on Human and Labour Rights, etc -taking into account its QHSE Management System- and evaluated progress based on the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises.
Performed a RBC risk inventorisation and developed a strategy and practical action plan together with a small business selling solar systems in Africa, based on the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises
Performed sustainability audits for several plywood producing companies in Latin America, to contribute to improvement of RBC in the timber supply chain.
Provided a workshop and drafting the due diligence guidance for the Agreement to Stimulate Sustainable Forest management
The OECD Guidelines for Multinational enterprises and the UNGPs are voluntary international guidelines to facilitate companies to carry out responsible business behaviour. Many businesses and sectors are using these guidelines to enhance sustainable production, mitigate environmental pollution and heighten the respect for human rights in their own operations and in their value chains.
Business activities may result in adverse impacts related to corporate governance, workers, human rights, the environment, bribery, and consumers. The OECD MNE guidelines and UNGPs describe a process, called due diligence, which enterprises should carry out to
Many sector initiatives and industry schemes are stimulating their members to apply due diligence. In some countries, national legislation is being drafted which will mandate (large, multi-national) companies to carry out due diligence.
SSC-Consultants provides support to sectors and individual companies to carry out due diligence.
SSC-Consultants is a multidisciplinary intelligence & consultancy firm on human rights and environmental management. We work for sectors, companies, NGOs, industry coalitions, governments, multistakeholder initiatives and international institutions.
Our signature: expertise and comprehensive approaches for sustainable impacts; here and in production countries.
Our values:
Sandra is passionate about contributing to fair business. Her goal is a living income and living wage for people in countries in transition who do business with the global north, and conservation and development of nature.
She studied Management & Organisation (Groningen University) and Forest & Nature Conservation (Wageningen University and Research).
For the past 25 years she primarily worked for companies, in addition to some NGOs, governments, public-private partnerships and the UN, on all three dimensions of sustainability: social, economic and environment. She assisted individual companies in implementing various CSR/RBC guidelines in a practical manner, e.g. the OECD guidelines for multinational enterprises and Global Reporting Initiative, managed programmes on labour rights and environment, and supported multi-stakeholder initiatives to design practical tools for implementation of due diligence.
Most companies Sandra assisted are small and medium scale enterprises, while she also advised multinationals such as Canon, Sharp, Shell and Rabobank, and organisations such as UN-ILO,WWF and IDH- The Sustainable Trade Initiative.
She currently focuses on strategic guidance to companies and multi-stakeholder initiatives to improve International Responsible Business Conduct/Corporate Social Responsibility, especially labour rights and environment (climate change, biodiversity and circularity).
Lonneke has the ambition to provide a good life to every living being. She likes working on complex programs and initiatives aimed at promoting respect for human rights, avoiding environmental degradation and climate change, facilitating nature and biodiversity conservation, and promoting the welfare of animals.
She holds a Masters Degree in Biology (Utrecht University), with a specialisation in sustainable development and nature conservation.
Throughout her career she combined ecological, sociological and economical insights to define and implement best and durable solutions for a myriad of challenges. Her experience is highly diverse; she implemented multi-stakeholder agreements, undertook research and provided advice for UN conventions, coordinated evaluations, managed conservation and development programs, and assisted small and medium scale enterprises to implement due diligence.
Lonneke mainly worked for knowledge institutions, such as the UN-FAO, Wageningen University Graduate School, Utrecht University, University of Amsterdam and IDH – The Sustainable Trade Initiative, but also for NGOs such as WWF, Four Paws, WAP, IUCN, Friends of the Earth, and some private companies.
She consults initiatives aimed at responsible business conduct and respect for people, animals and nature in its broadest sense; enhanced environmental protection, sustainable forest and ecosystem management, biodiversity conservation, improved animal welfare and promotion of human rights.