Sustaınable busıness has lot s of challenges for able to keep up alıve the sustaınabılıty eco-system. We can count for these challenges lıke; growıng consumer expectatıon, rısıng envıronmental restraınts caused by competıtıon for natural resources and clımate change… thıs ıs why, stakeholders must blend own experıences wıth new strategıes and key account prıorıtıes for able to come agaınst and success ın thıs system.

We’re in business to make a positive everyday difference. This means making sure we’re aligned with the needs and expectations of our most important stakeholders—our customers, employees and shareholders. We also interact with legislators, other companies, non-governmental organizations and others. Stakeholder insight helps us make better decisions, keep our priorities on track, and ensure we’re addressing the most important issues proactively. That’s why our materiality approach takes into account a wide range of stakeholder needs and expectations, as well as broader, long-term trends and drivers that affect the business over time.

If we need to mantıon our prıorıtıes
1- Eco-effıcıency to ıncrease the productıvıty , reduce our envırenmental ımpact and lower cost.
2- Communıcatıon of sustaınabılıty achıevements and partıcıpatıon ın external ınıtıatıves to ıncrease brand and corporate value
3- Sustınable ınnovatıon ıncrease our appeal to a growıng base of eco concusıon consumers
4- Achıeve excellenceın health and safety, operatıonal effıcıency, and employee satısfactıon
5- Unleash new vısıon and leadershıp talent through eQual opportunıty polıcıes
6- Generation with domestic resources
7- Risk management
8- Occupational health and safety
9- Favorable working conditions
10- Customer focus and demand management

Focusing on sustainable supply chain management aligns with our ethical values and business goals. Additionally, customers look favorably upon supply chains that are transparent, well managed and devoid of ethical incidents.
Unal manages supply chain sustainability through:

• Governance
• Strategic sourcing
• Supplier relations
• Unal Supplier Priorities
• Human rights policies
• Logistics
• Supplier diversity

Governance

Unal’s strategic sourcing executive manage logistics and energy manufacturing oversees our supply chain sustainability. Unal also evaluates our Strategic Sourcing Department on the sustainability of our supply chain.

Strategic Sourcing and Logistics

Logistics are the most complex and extensive aspect of our supply chain. Effectively managing this complexity drives down costs for our customers and reduces our environmental impact. To the extent practical, we strategically source raw materials closer to the appropriate manufacturing plant to limit distance traveled, and we use intermodal transport whenever possible. Historically, we have been sourced approximately 70% of copper rod or cathode from Turkiye to reduce freight costs, which in turn decreases our carbon footprint ( carbon footprint e tiklayinca gidebilecek link yapılacak ).

We encourage our carrier contractors to participate in the Smart Way Program in alignment with our fuel efficiency expectations. This program creates a win-win-win outcome: our carriers save on fuel costs, our logistics expenditure declines and the environment benefits from diminished carbon intensity. Carrier membership is dependent upon improvement from baseline statistics in various categories. Supplier Relations Unal recognizes the critical role suppliers play in our ability to deliver reliable value to customers. We select our suppliers according to their reputation and demonstrated service, quality, innovative technology and price. To ensure our operations proceed without disruption, we work to uphold preferred status with our suppliers by maintaining consistent demand. We collaborate extensively with the suppliers of our most significant inputs—copper and aluminum—to identify potential risks and opportunities.

Unal Supplier Priorities

Along with our supplier relations initiatives, we actively manage our Supplier Sustainability Program, which includes 18 critical raw material (excluding metals) suppliers based on volume of spend, criticality and risk. These suppliers account for 73 percent of raw material spend and are located in Turkiye, % 27 Rest of World.

Through Our Supplier priorities we:

• Request participants submit environmental, social and governance information annually;
• Ensure all participants complete an annual sustainability survey;
and • Conduct an on-site audit of participants’ environmental, social, governance and quality management systems.
Human Rights Policies

Southwire released our human trafficking and conflict mineral policies in 2015, a development that aligns with our focus on supply chain sustainability. These policies demonstrate to our stakeholders that we actively address these pressing social issues, and we associate with organizations that share our concern. Unal also requires all suppliers to complete a self-assessment outlining whether their materials comply with human trafficking laws and conflict minerals reporting templates, if applicable.

Supplier Diversity

We consider supplier diversity an important aspect of a sustainable supply chain. Operating under Unal’s Strategic Sourcing department, our Supplier Diversity program ensures that Southwire identifies:

• Qualified small business and businesses owned and operated by minorities, females or veterans in our strategic sourcing and procurement processes;
and • Opportunities to foster the development and advancement of diverse businesses.

Some of our larger customers have their own supplier diversity goals. To help them attain those goals, we commit to collaborating with diverse businesses and continually assess our progress. To that end, we report our expenditures monthly or quarterly to our top utility customers. To enhance our focus on supplier diversity in 2015, we held training sessions for our buyers and propose to provide similar training for our sales and operational personnel in the future. We identified internal supplier diversity champions and plan to recognize them for their efforts.

Looking forward, we plan to create sourcing requirements for all purchases of products or services valued over $5,000 that are not covered under contractual obligations.

Industry partnerships provide us an opportunity to stay at the foreground of a thriving market and advance our industry as a whole..

These partnerships and associations are a major asset for our industrial zone. This is why, Unal is building close long-term collaborative relationships with a number of major pre-linkedh industrial partners and industry associations for able to cross-check our company organisation frame and key costumers needs. Unal stay in touch and participate with current strategic challenges, creating long-lasting relationships with partners in the Wire and Cable industry.

Unal examine its sustainable industry relationship effort by designating in five major topics as below:

1- Giving a hear to costumers
2- Enhancing awareness of our sustainable innovations
3- Assuring product safety and sustainability
4- Sharing our expertise with standard setters
5- Being play maker or taking a role in related associations

1- Giving a hear to costumers

Listening the customers helps us maintain industry leadership. As we engage our customers and other industry interest groups through our network, we request feedback on our products’ performance and identify needs or gaps around products that may or may not exist. This effort enable Unal to gains insight into the evolving market as well as access to the latest Technologies..

2- Enhancing awareness of our sustainable innovations

Unal products help eliminate hazards to contractors’ lives; therefore, industry partnerships offer a venue to share our safe and sustainable innovations with end users. Electrical contractors exposes them to innovative ways to install wire and, ultimately, creates preference among this audience for Unal products and services..

3- Assuring product safety and sustainability

While our status as an industry leader pushes us to rigorously test our products internally, our industry affiliations help us add an extra layer of assurance to the development of new products—a reflection of our fundamental commitment to safety and quality. When we innovate, we fully understand how our products perform because we test products in partnership with certification companies such as TSE, VDE, SGS etc.. This type of collaboration helps us ensure our products are safe before introducing them to the market.

4- Sharing our expertise with standard setters

It is our responsibility to share our knowledge and expertise in the development of new industry policies and standards. Our partnerships improve our ability to connect with the industry’s decision-makers.

Unal’s key customers benefit from our involvement in policy discussions; our knowledge of pending code changes enables us to swiftly alter any soon-to-be non-compliant products.

By anticipating these changes, we allot ourselves ample time to implement the appropriate changes to product components or construction. This enables Unal to supply products to our customers without the interruption or risk of non-compliant or outdated products.

5- Being play maker or taking a role in related associations

Our engineers, commercial executives and board managers work to maintain and create our industry partnerships. We have been proudly participated to the TIM meetings, ITO Chamber of Commerce Events, Turkish Wire and Cable association panels, international fairs etc..

Simplifying the Business (StB)

StB is one of the key goal for Unal”s Organic Growth. This method engages stakeholders across the industry to transform our business practices and processes that which will deliver value to Unals entire operations and skills. While we are driving this approach, we strive to simplify the business by using proven, value based frameworks. We provide coaching / practical advice on opportunities and challenges related all kind of matters. Also, we prefer to shorten procedures, details etc.. in communication with out come environment.

Unal”s one of the foremost mission is to simplify business by increasing efficiency and streamlining operations for all related stakeholders while managing whole sustainability programme. This is a technique we use it in our corporation in which jobs are broken into relatively simple tasks. It aims at greater productivity through reduced application of mental and physical effort.

Our method of meeting our sustainable communication player’s needs is through the distinct concept of H2S2 ( Honesty – Harmony – Speed – Simplicity ): honesty with our environment promotes harmony in our relationships. Simplicity in an age of complexity leads to speed in our solutions. These simple business principles are the cornerstones of how we do business and the foundation upon which we support our stakeholders.