• Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative

    Building trust in social and environmental sustainability standards worldwide

Supporting companies in their corporate due diligence practices

Global supply chains are under increasing pressure to demonstrate ethical and sustainable practices. However, with hundreds of auditing, monitoring, and certification programmes on the market, each with a different scope, level of rigour, and governance, it is difficult for organisations to know which scheme to use. This can result in audit fatigue, increased costs and fragmented efforts on key issues like labour rights, health and safety, and environmental protection.

Assessing sustainability standards against defined benchmark criteria

This process offers businesses clearer and more comparable information to inform independent sourcing and sustainability decisions, while maintaining diversity of approaches and competitive choice among programmes.

Assessing sustainability standards against defined benchmark criteria

Our governance

The steering committee's mission is to shape the SSCI’s strategy and drive its development.

  • Elles de Jonge

    Manager Quality and Sustainability - Co-Chair

  • Jessica Meisinger

    Global Sustainability Lead - Co-Chair

  • Tamara Muruetagoiena

    Vice-President of Sustainability - Co-Chair

Our focus areas

Our achievements

  • November 2025

    Sedex-SMETA 7.0 SSCI Recognised, benchmarked against SSCI’s Processing & Manufacturing and Primary Production scopes.

  • November 2025

    Florverde® Sustainable Flowers (FSF) became the first certification scheme to apply for benchmarking against the SSCI’s Environmental Benchmark Criteria.

  • June 2024

    Launch of Environmental Benchmark.

  • October 2021

    BRCGS, the first scheme to achieve SSCI Recognition, benchmarked against the SSCI’s Processing & Manufacturing and Primary Production scopes.

  • May 2021

    Opening of Social Benchmark to Fishing; Agriculture and Aquaculture Sectors with new At-Sea Operations and Primary Production scopes.

  • October 2019

    Launch of the first Social Benchmark scope for Manufacturing and Processing Sector.

  • April 2019

    Launch of the Sustainable Supply Chain Initiative.

Our resources

Meet the team

  • Didier Bergeret

    Director, Sustainability

  • Alissa Mustre del Rio

    Officer, Sustainability

  • Luiza Reguse

    Senior Manager, Sustainability

  • Kenya Tillerson

    Senior Manager, Communications

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