Cummins 2023-2024 Sustainability Progress Report: Supply Chain
Extending environmental initiatives across the company’s supply chain
Cummins and its supply partners have shared sustainability goals to reduce environmental impact, use natural resources responsibly and promote ethical and sustainable social practices. The focus on supply base partnerships can help the company achieve business goals while also contributing to a better future for employees and the health of communities and the planet.
Tracking the environmental footprint of product contents
Cummins considers material selection as a key aspect of product quality, performance
and dependability. Materials also have direct impact on environmental sustainability, making it important to optimize the selection to meet product requirements with the least environmental impact. Cummins invests in lifecycle assessment tools and processes to help the company better
estimate the environmental impacts of the parts supplied to Cummins throughout their journey into the company’s finished products.
One specific process involves software using products’ bill of materials, material standards and production methods to estimate the carbon footprint of Cummins’ products down to the assembly and part level. This technology will be combined with the company’s circular lifecycle plan for every part (see the Environment section) to identify opportunities for the company to
improve the end of “first” life management of Cummins’ products to reduce their carbon footprint. The company uses a class-leading data collection system to identify the presence and concentration of materials in Cummins’ products, allowing the company to better identify risks from hazardous and supply-constrained materials and implement appropriate controls.
Strengthening supply chain integrity
Cummins mandates adherence to the highest standards of human rights, ethics and legal compliance from the company’s suppliers, as outlined in its Supplier Code of Conduct (see Ethics and Compliance section).
Read the rest of the Supply Chain chapter in the Cummins 2023-2024 Sustainability Progress Report
