14 Answers Clif Bar collaborates closely with its suppliers to meet its goals for sustainable sourcing, which include establishing relationships with farmers and suppliers, obtaining organic and sustainably sourced ingredients, ensuring fair labour practises, and incorporating the use of renewable energy sources and other restorative practises.
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Clif Bar collaborates closely with its suppliers to meet its goals for sustainable sourcing, which include establishing relationships with farmers and suppliers, obtaining organic and sustainably sourced ingredients, ensuring fair labour practises, and incorporating the use of renewable energy sources and other restorative practises.
In what ways does Clif Bar have a sustainable supply chain? Regarding financial responsibility, what business risks does Clif Bar & Company face with so many parts of its supply chain outsourced?
Case. Supply Chain Sustainability at Clif Bar & Company. When Gary Erickson started out on one of his typical long-distance bike treks in 1990, he expected to have a great ride.
Business Risks that Clif Bar & Company Face From Outsourcing Supply Chain-from Sustainability Preceptive. According to Kajewski et.all (2015) the Pitfalls of outsourcing are: Technological transfer, Pulling the plug too quickly and Processes integrations. 1. Pulling the plug too quickly: This risk comes about when a company decides to quickly outsource without fixing the existing one.
As a food company , Clif Bar & Company is working step by step to help create a healthier, more just and sustainable food system. We are on a journey to do business in a different way—we strive to reduce our environmental footprint and improve in everything we do, from the field to the final product. We have put in place responsible sourcing goals, practices and policies to communicate our values and expectations for suppliers to act ethically and responsibly.
Clif checks up to confirm our expectations are met and correct any issues to ensure that we are moving together towards our mutual goals.
To ensure that we are keeping ourselves and our suppliers to the highest possible standard, we regularly update our Code of Conduct to reflect an evolving understanding of pressing supply chain issues.
Connect with the farmers who grow our food and create a traceable supply chain.
In addition, responsible sourcing training is required for our management, key staff within our supply chain and social responsibility team.
While Clif has the right to terminate a contract if a violation is ever found, we prefer to work with suppliers to improve working conditions and implement corrective actions.
The U.S. EPA named Clif Bar & Company a 2017 Climate Leader for its efforts to promote climate action and green power across the supply chain.
Clif SHOT BLOKS packaging redesigned to save 25,000 lbs of packaging a year.
Clif Bar received the award for Outstanding Influencer from the Climate Collaborative in recognition of the company's work on organic research, advocacy, transportation, and renewable energy.
The Clif Bar Baking Company of Twin Falls becomes a research site for InSPIRE, a national research project led by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory to study and maximize the economic and environmental benefits of combining solar and pollinator habitat.
Clif Bar’s 115,000 square foot headquarters is the first building in Emeryville, CA to achieve LEED Platinum certification.
Clif Bar received the Rabobank Award for Leader in Sustainability. The award recognizes a deep commitment to sustainability as a part of Clif Bar ’s core strategy across the business. Gary Erickson and Kit Crawford accepted the award at Rabobank’s annual Food & Agribusiness Summit in New York City.
Clif Bar & Company Collaborates with Rainforest Alliance for Cocoa Certification in CLIF Bars, our flagship product. 100% of cocoa ingredients for CLIF will be Rainforest Alliance certified.
With the support of an expert in renewable energy procurement and finance, suppliers assess how much electricity they use on Clif Bar’s behalf and the best methods for procuring green power to supply this electricity, such as through installing on-site renewable energy or purchasing green power. Clif Bar requires the independent experts to sign a non-disclosure agreement with suppliers, which allows suppliers to share sensitive financial information without concern that it may be shared with Clif Bar or competitors. Providing this expertise to its partners without charge has resulted in significant progress. To date, more than 90% of the companies that have received this assistance have either made a clean power commitment or are in discussions with Clif Bar with that goal in mind. To this end, Clif Bar strongly encourages its suppliers to join the U.S. EPA Green Power Partnership and engaged EPA to help educate suppliers on green power purchasing options at Clif Bar’s annual supplier meeting.
Background: An organic food and drink company based in Emeryville, California, Clif Bar began tracking supplier greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in 2002 for a limited number of sources, including manufacturing at subcontracted bakeries, office energy use, and business travel.
Empower your suppliers: providing suppliers with education and technical support can spur them to act more quickly.
Clif Bar requires the independent experts to sign a non-disclosure agreement with suppliers, which allows suppliers to share sensitive financial information without concern that it may be shared with Clif Bar or competitors. Providing this expertise to its partners without charge has resulted in significant progress.
A family- and employee-owned company, Clif Bar is legally bound in its byla ws to provide returns on all five bottom lines to its shareholders. “It’s not enough to green our own company or green the supply chain. We have to build a larger movement to rewire the planet with clean, renewable energy.”. – Elysa Hammond, VP of Environmental Stewardship, ...
Recognizing Suppliers: Clif Bar works closely with its suppliers to achieve its sustainable sourcing goals: to build connections with farmers and suppliers, to source organic and certified sustainable ingredients, to ensure fair labor practices, and to integrate the use of renewable energy use and other restorative environmental practices from field to final product. All these goals require strong supply chain partnerships and a willingness to share data and work together toward common goals. As such, Clif Bar recognizes suppliers who are now using green power with awards at its annual supplier summit.
As a food company , Clif Bar & Company is working step by step to help create a healthier, more just and sustainable food system. We are on a journey to do business in a different way—we strive to reduce our environmental footprint and improve in everything we do, from the field to the final product. We have put in place responsible sourcing goals, practices and policies to communicate our values and expectations for suppliers to act ethically and responsibly.
Clif checks up to confirm our expectations are met and correct any issues to ensure that we are moving together towards our mutual goals.
To ensure that we are keeping ourselves and our suppliers to the highest possible standard, we regularly update our Code of Conduct to reflect an evolving understanding of pressing supply chain issues.
Connect with the farmers who grow our food and create a traceable supply chain.
In addition, responsible sourcing training is required for our management, key staff within our supply chain and social responsibility team.
While Clif has the right to terminate a contract if a violation is ever found, we prefer to work with suppliers to improve working conditions and implement corrective actions.