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2018 SUSTAINABILITY REPORT | RATTI GROUP
“Tessuteca Ratti”
In order to improve its relations with its customers on a daily basis, Ratti has opened a tessuteca (fabric boutique), with fabric bases always available in the warehouse.
This is an efficient and effective area – and also a service – which offers more than 400 tested bases that offer the irrefutable guarantee of an immediate printing sample, whether traditional or inkjet printing.
The categories of always-ready fabrics such as silk, cotton, linen, wool/cashmere, viscose, synthetic fabrics, jersey fabrics, velvet and swimwear provide evidence that the company is leaning towards process
innovation, improved logistics and quality service.
The investment in the tessuteca, together with the company’s ability to forecast purchasing criteria with the customer, represent a new business model in which delivery times are significantly reduced.
The Ratti Tessuteca has therefore become the basis of an increasingly close dialogue between ideas, production and delivery, where everything revolves around the customer’s forecasting ability and the company’s speed of response.
It is not just a warehouse for storing goods, but an actual centre for international processing and shipping.
The objective is to centralise and standardise the supply chain to ensure that operations are managed as efficiently as possible and that the customer is completely satisfied.
Selecting suppliers
For Ratti, managing the extended chain
represents an opportunity to generate new value
in the complex textiles-fashion supply chain, guaranteeing an excellent level of service and total customer satisfaction, using an end-to-end supply chain model.
In 2018 Ratti shared with its suppliers both the updated version of its Code of Ethics (see the paragraph “The Code of Ethics” in Chapter 6)
and the supplementary rules of conduct of the new Suppliers’ Code.
Suppliers’ reliability and their ability to meet
these requirements are key elements in reaching the goal of guaranteeing the quality of the products and services offered. .
Seeking to enhance sustainability in its relations with suppliers, in 2018 Ratti worked on a selection procedure which takes sustainability parameters into consideration, in addition to criteria of quality, service and competitiveness.
The procedure will be perfected at the start
of 2019, the objective being to implement it fully during the year.
A specific environmental assessment is carried
out, particularly for companies which supply chemical products, and disposal services for
waste and fabrics. For checks regarding chemical products, the Prevention and Protection function (Servizio Prevenzione e Protezione) and the Process Monitoring function (Servizio Presidio Processi), while also applying the provisions set out in the dedicated procedure, carry out assessments
of chemical product suppliers, guaranteeing that in purchases made by Ratti there are no substances representing a high risk to the environment, in accordance with national laws and the most common certifications.
The checks carried out on chemical compliance
are of critical importance to Ratti, which is shown by the significant investment it has made to upgrade its internal laboratory (see the box “The REACH regulation”).
With regard to the provision of goods and services from critical countries, a procedure has been established to verify the reliability of the supplier
and the quality of the product, and action has been taken to scrutinise aspects relating to social accountability.
Ratti SpA and its subsidiary Creomoda Sarl have implemented a system for managing social accountability, certified according to the standard SA8000:2014 by an independent body.
Suppliers are asked to compile a self-assessment
The Suppliers’ Code
In managing its business activities, the Ratti Group is committed to respecting ethical and moral values that are defined on the basis of probity, honesty and transparency, and requires its suppliers to act
in line with the same principles, respecting and adhering to the same philosophy when managing their companies.
The Ratti Group is working to include the New Suppliers’ Code, which was approved in November 2018, as an integral part of its supplier contracts. Compliance with this Code as well as with the Group’s Code of Ethics will be essential for supplier relationships to continue. To ensure supplier compliance, the Group reserves the right to check that the principles stipulated have
been complied with.
The contents of the Suppliers’ Code focus specifically on respecting human rights and working conditions, safeguarding the environment, the fight against corruption and respect for intellectual property.
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