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amfori BEPI

amfori BEPI

Understanding amfori Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI)


What is amfori BEPI?


The amfori Business Environmental Performance Initiative (BEPI) is a comprehensive system designed to support businesses in managing and improving their environmental performance. Born out of the increasing need for sustainable business practices, the BEPI has its roots in the international trade association amfori, known for its dedication to open and sustainable trade.

The primary goal of the amfori BEPI is to create a structured pathway for businesses to monitor, manage, and ultimately improve their environmental performance. Think of it as a health check for your company's environmental impact. It provides tools, resources, and a framework to not only assess your current environmental footprint but also to identify areas for improvement.

 

 

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  • Softlines

    Customers’ expectations are high in the softlines industry. Any quality issue, price discrepancy, or late delivery directly affects your business finances and reputation. Accelerated fashion seasons in the apparel and home textile industry create an urgency to quickly produce quality products that are compliant. With softlines, textile, footwear and accessories companies expanding into new global markets, they face an increasingly complex environment that challenges the turn-around of goods.

    We help you manage risk and achieve your goals of quality products being shipped in a timely manner. By combining quality assurance and quality control services at all stages of the product life cycle, Bureau Veritas can help protect your reputation and brand.

    Our inspectors and auditors have experience within the apparel, footwear and accessories marketplace allowing us to offer inspection and audit services worldwide for all kinds of softline products.

      • ACCESSORIES

      • From supplier qualification through to final shipment; our specialists help you avoid supply chain disruptions allowing you to ship quality products on time.

      • Belts
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      • At every stage of your supply chain we verify your product meets time to market demands, and satisfies consumer expectations.

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      • In today’s connected world, more and more softline product are integrating technology. As a global leader in both softlines and wireless, our BV Best Practice...

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    Since hardlines encompasses an extensive array of products, ranging from furniture, jewelry, office and household goods, to candles and more - they often require a focused inspection and audit approach. Our BV Best Practice specifications have done the hard work for you. We have identified the necessary requirements for multiple global markets helping you with improved product quality, better branding and a reduction in customer complaints and returns due to poor quality.

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    Our quality assurance services for toy and juvenile products include both specialized services to meet specific needs and testing services to help assess if your product meets required governmental regulations and industry standards.

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      • At every stage of your supply chain we verify your toys meet time to market demands, and satisfy consumer expectations.

      • Arts & Crafts
      • Balls
      • Construction Toys
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      • ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS

      • Our product specialists partner you to make the right supplier choice and verify the quality and safety of your electrical toy before shipment..

      • JUVENILE PRODUCTS

      • From supplier qualification through to final shipment; our specialists help you avoid supply chain disruptions allowing you to ship quality products on time.

      • Baby Furnishings
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      • WIRELESS CONNECTED

      • Our quality management approach verifies that your connected toys meet best in class inspection requirements and satisfy the demands of your customers.

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  • ELECTRICAL & ELECTRONICS

    The electrical and electronics industries face a number of challenges preparing their products for the marketplace. Identifying and conforming to global requirements in a changing regulatory environment, optimizing product development, assessing suppliers and auditing their factories, and monitoring quality throughout the supply chain. Added to these are rising concerns that it is the producer’s responsibility to see a product through to the end of its useful life. Bureau Veritas has the comprehensive capabilities to partner with you in solving these issues.

      • CONSUMER ELECTRONICS

      • Our product specialists partner you to make the right supplier choice and verify the quality and safety of your consumer electronics shipment.

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      • CONSUMER GOODS

      • At every stage of your supply chain we verify your electrical goods meet time to market demands, and satisfy consumer expectations.

      • Large Domestic Appliances
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      • Power Tools
      • Small Domestic Appliances
      • Generator Driven Appliances
      • SMART HOME

      • Our quality management approach verifies that your personal goods meet best in class inspection requirements and satisfy the demands of your customers.

      • Entertainment
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      • Security
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      • TELECOMMUNICATIONS

      • Our product specialists partner you to make the right supplier choice and verify the quality and safety of your telecommunications products before shipment.

      • Feature Phones
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      • Smart Phones
      • Tablets

 

What does it measure? Is there a scoring system?

The amfori BEPI is not confined to a single sector. It applies to any business, and tiers of the supply chain, regardless of its size or the industry it operates in, that is committed to improving its environmental performance. Whether you are a multinational corporation or a small local business, the BEPI can provide the framework you need to make a positive environmental impact.

 

Measurement Criteria

The BEPI measures a broad range of environmental aspects. It includes eight Environmental Performance Areas:  

It provides a comprehensive overview of your company's environmental performance.

Scoring System

The BEPI employs a scoring system to quantify your environmental performance.

For full scope audit, there will be overall ratings:

 

amfori BEPI scoring system

For the focused scope of Environmental Monitoring, the score will then be focused on the particular Environmental Performance Area.

 

What are the benefits?

Environmental Benefits

The environmental benefits of implementing the amfori BEPI are manifold. By encouraging sustainable practices, it promotes resource conservation, waste reduction, and a decrease in harmful emissions.

 

Business Benefits

On the business front, implementing the BEPI can lead to cost savings through efficient resource use, enhanced resilience of your business to industry and market changes, and improved customers, suppliers, and stakeholder relations.

 

The Five-Step Journey of an amfori BEPI audit?

 

Conducting a BEPI audit is a comprehensive process that involves a structured five-step journey. As an approved auditing company of amfori, we're committed to helping your organization navigate the BEPI audit process effectively.
 

  1. Materiality Assessment: The first step in a BEPI audit is the materiality assessment. This involves identifying and prioritizing the environmental issues that are most relevant to your organization and its supply chain.
     
  2. Supply Chain Mapping and Analysis: This step involves a detailed mapping and analysis of your supply chain to identify the environmental impacts at each stage.
     
  3. Risk Assessment: After conducting the Supply Chain Mapping and Analysis, the next step is to request Risk Assessment of a site.
    *The Risk Assessment is a self-assessment to be completed on the amfori Sustainability Platform.

  4. Improvement Activities: Based on the findings of the supply chain analysis, the next step is to develop an improvement plan. This plan outlines the actions your organization will take to address the identified environmental impacts. As a trusted BEPI partner, we can assist you in creating an effective and practical improvement plan, providing expert advice on best practices and innovative solutions to enhance your environmental performance.
     
  5. Monitor and Report Progress: The final step in a BEPI audit is monitoring progress. This involves assessing the effectiveness of the implemented actions and measuring the improvements in environmental performance.

 

How to Get Started with BEPI
 

Starting with amfori BEPI (Business Environmental Performance Initiative) is an important step towards integrating sustainability into your business operations and supply chain. As an approved partner and official audit company of amfori, Bureau Veritas is equipped to guide you through the process, ensuring a smooth and effective transition. Here's how to get started:

 

  1. Understanding BEPI: The first step is gaining a comprehensive understanding of BEPI, its scope, and how it aligns with your organization's sustainability goals. Our team is ready to provide detailed insights and presentations about BEPI, its benefits, and how it can transform your business's environmental performance.
  2. Membership Registration: To commence the process, your organization needs to become a member of amfori BEPI. This involves completing the membership application and agreeing to the terms and conditions of BEPI.
     
  3. Supply Chain Analysis: Once registered, the next step is to map and analyze your supply chain. This involves identifying key environmental aspects and determining their materiality. Our team will support you in this critical phase, providing expert guidance and tools to simplify the process.
     
  4. Implementation and Monitoring: With a clear understanding of your supply chain and its environmental impact, you'll be ready to implement BEPI's environmental performance improvement measures. Our team will be at your side, providing continued support in the execution of improvement plans and monitoring progress.
     
  5. Continuous Improvement: Post audit, our team will work with you to address any identified gaps and drive continuous improvement in your environmental performance, aligning your operations with BEPI's sustainable objectives and your own environmental targets.


By joining amfori BEPI and working with us as your partner, your organization can drive meaningful environmental improvements across your supply chain, enhance your business resilience, and meet the evolving expectations of stakeholders in terms of sustainability.



Why Bureau Veritas?

Bureau Veritas is a global leader in testing, inspection and certification (TIC), delivering high quality services to help clients meet the growing challenges of quality, safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.

 

  • Trusted Partner of amfori
    As a trusted partner of amfori, Bureau Veritas offers innovative solutions that go beyond simple compliance with regulations and standards. 100 BEPI assessments are conducted yearly for our clients to reduce risks, improve performance and promote sustainable development.
     
  • Global Resources and Expertise
    BV's BEPI auditors are all trained and qualified. Ready to serve across major cities in Asia: China, Vietnam, Bangladesh, India, Taiwan, Cambodia, Turkey, Indonesia, Thailand.
     
  • Dedicated team to support your audit program
    Work with your dedicated Audit Program Manager, who’ll be your advisor and manage every detail of your audit. We ensure your auditing and reporting process is streamlined.

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Bureau Veritas is a world leader in laboratory testing, inspection and certification services. Created in 1828, the Group has more than 80,000 employees located in more than 1,600 offices and laboratories around the globe.

As one of the world's leading third-party inspection companies, our inspection team all undergo rigorous technical qualification and integrity training before performing any type of inspection. We offer standard and tailor-made quality control inspection for a wide array of softline and hardline products.

Bureau Veritas helps its clients improve their performance by offering services and innovative solutions in order to ensure that their assets, products, infrastructure and processes meet standards and regulations in terms of quality, health and safety, environmental protection and social responsibility.

Global footprint and local expertise

Bureau Veritas carries out over 400,000 inspections and audits every year. We have over 1200 fully qualified inspectors across 85 countries in Asia, Africa, Europe, North and South America.

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Your product quality inspection is conducted with BV’s inspection protocols which are based on our standard practices and decades of experience from assessing millions of factories and products. All our protocols are optimized to meet today’s requirements.

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As the world leader in testing, inspection and certification services, we put ethics and integrity at the very top of our priority list. Our Code of Ethics ensures our staff members maintain integrity, professional competence, confidentiality, professional behavior, and high ethical standards in their day-to-day business activities.