December 2021
Dear all,
Welcome to the fourth and final PSCI newsletter of 2021 and my last one as Chair. When I took up the role early last year, I think we’d all hoped that 2021 would be a more stable year than 2020. I’m not sure if we can say that this was truly the case, but I’m pleased that the PSCI continued to progress with our mission despite the continued, challenging circumstances in which our members and suppliers found themselves.
And despite these challenges, it has been another impactful year for the PSCI. We launched our new three-year strategy, reached our highest number of attendees even through our Virtual Supplier Conferences, have growing membership interest from Indian and Chinese companies, and formed new partnerships and pledges to support the State Government of Telangana’s Musi River Revitalization Initiative.
It has been a privilege and honor to act as Chair this past year and I look forward to working with the incoming Chair, Vicki Stone-Bjarup at Novo Nordisk, and our new Board members to continue to drive the PSCI agenda forward. I would like to thank wholeheartedly all my incredible board colleagues, Carnstone team, Leads, Co-Leads and members of the workstreams and Topic Teams for their huge energy, support and contribution.
Have a wonderful winter holiday season and some well-earned time with family and friends.
Best wishes,
MANJIT SINGH
PSCI Chair and Associate Director of Corporate Sustainability at Centrient Pharmaceuticals
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PARTNER CONFERENCE
Industrial Green Chemistry World Conference
19 and 20 January 2022, India
PSCI Partner IGCW are hosting a 2-day virtual Conference on the 19-20th January 2022. The PSCI is the official partner of the second day of the Conference and will be hosting Presentations and Q&As on Explosion protection, PiE/AMR and providing an update from the PSCI Environment team.
Sign up details will be available on the PSCI Platform in the new year.
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WEBINAR
Product Stewardship Outlook for 2022 - Beveridge & Diamond
Thursday 17th February 2022, 09:00 - 10:00 EST
Product-related environmental mandates continue to accelerate in countries world-wide, presenting compliance obligations throughout the product life-cycle and supply chain. This session will provide PSCI members and suppliers with an overview of key product-related environmental regulations affecting the pharmaceutical industry, including updates on:
- Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) laws for pharmaceuticals, medical devices and packaging
- Circular Economy mandates impacting product design and end-of-life recovery
- Prohibitions on single-use plastics products and packaging
- Requirements for environmental marketing claims
- International agreements driving product stewardship legislation
- Recommendations for ensuring compliance and reducing business and legal risks
Sign up details will be available on the PSCI Platform in the new year.
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WEBINAR
Chemicals Legislation: Update and Compliance Strategies - Beveridge & Diamond
Thursday 24th March 2022, 09:00 - 10:00 EST
Pharmaceutical supply chains are increasingly impacted by expanding chemicals legislation in many countries. These requirements have the potential to impact manufacturing operations, product design, labelling and end-of-life management.
This webinar will provide an overview of common legal frameworks governing chemicals, highlight key trends, and provide an update and outlook for chemicals regulation important to the pharmaceutical sector in the EU, US, China and Latin America. The session will include a discussion of compliance strategies and highlight options for tracking developments.
Sign up details will be available on the PSCI Platform in the new year.
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Member Updates and Resources
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Welcome to our New Member
We’ve welcomed one new member since October: Organon. We welcome their genuine commitment to responsible supply chain practices. This brings our total membership to 54.
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“At Organon we believe in a better and healthier every day for every woman. We are committed to sustainability and aspire to the highest ethical, social and environmental standards. Organon recognizes that our business partners play an important role in our overall success. Accordingly, Organon strives to conduct business with individuals and organizations who share our commitment to high ethical standards and who operate in a socially and environmentally responsible manner. As such, we are excited to join the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI) to aid in ensuring sustainability in all business practices as outlined in our Business Partner Code of Conduct.”
Richard A. Williams, Vice President – Global Safety and Environment at Organon
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Not a member yet?
When you join the PSCI you join a community committed to promoting responsible supply chains and better business conditions.
Find out about membership here.
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Celebrating Human Rights Day – PSCI Launches Position Statement on Human Rights
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At the PSCI, we’re committed to supporting all our members to implement the United Nations’ Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs). That’s why for Human Rights Day, we’re excited to launch our new Position Statement, which provides an overview of the role we play in helping our members and suppliers align their practices with the UNGPs. You can read the full statement here.
Be sure to link and share our LinkedIn post and feel free to share internally with your colleagues. |
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2021 AGM
We held our 2021 AGM in early November, welcoming 160 individuals from 45 of our member companies and partners. We enjoyed a stimulating keynote from Namita Nair, VP ESG Research at MSCI, heard the latest updates from our Committees, held a workshop on responsible procurement practices, and met old friends and new through virtual drinks and 124 1:1 networking sessions. Finally, we announced our new fee structure for 2022 and welcomed our incoming Board members. You can read more about the AGM and watch recordings of all the sessions here.
We’ve already begun planning the Spring Meeting and want your views on physical and virtual event options. Take our survey here.
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As announced at the AGM, the Engagement Dashboard is now embedded into The Link. You can find it here.
The dashboard gives visibility over membership requirements and engagement, e.g. basic requirements, audits shared, committee memberships, self-reported maturity. You can used it to track your own company's information and compare yourself to peers. |
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Help Needed! Have you translated the SAQ Template into other languages?
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Recently, the Audit Committee has received member requests for SAQ translations to other languages, including Russian. As a response to this, the Committee would like your help to please share the SAQ translations that your organization or suppliers are using, if permitted. (Excluding English, Chinese, and Japanese translations as they are already available)
Following that, the Committee will call for volunteers to cross-check the translations and refresh them to be in line with the most updated versions. The final versions will be uploaded to the Link as a resource accessible to all PSCI members and suppliers.
If you have SAQ translations in, for example, Spanish, German or Russian, please send it over to the Secretariat. |
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Call for Member Feedback: Complete the Audit Surveys
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The Audit Committee is requesting Members to give feedback on audits on the Link. The PSCI Audit Committee has developed two surveys, the sponsor feedback survey and the member (viewer) feedback survey, on the Link to help us collect feedback from PSCI members.
The sponsor feedback survey is for audit sponsors to submit their feedback on their experience in working with the 3rd-party auditors and audit quality and the member (viewer) feedback survey is for members to submit feedback on audit quality for those audits conducted by 3rd-party audit firms (i.e. non-PSCI member companies) that are not sponsored by them but are shared with them to view.
Results of these surveys will feed into the audit firm management process conducted by the Auditor Training sub-team under the Audit Committee. |
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The Principles E-Learning Tool
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We are currently revising the Principles E-Learning tool to reflect the updates to the PSCI principles and it will be back online before Christmas. In the meantime, this PSCI principles video ( subtitled) would be a good learning resource to get up to speed with the Principles. |
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Virtual Supplier Conferences
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Throughout the month of September, we held our increasingly popular Virtual Supplier Conferences in China and India.
2277 people from 264 sites attended the 2021 China Supplier Conference, showing a 24% increase compared to last year. The highest-rated sessions at the Conference were:
- Pharma wastewater API testing
- Practices to achieve carbon reduction targets + CSR reporting regarding emission reduction
- Local government regulations and best practices around hot work and confined space
The 2021 India Supplier Conference was attended by 1363 people from 120 companies, showing a 21% increase compared to last year. Audience feedback reported that ‘Day 2 event had the most useful sessions’ and Day 3 sessions were the most interesting, ‘the Human Right Due Diligence session was highly engaging’.
In lieu of gifts for speakers, small donations were made on behalf of the PSCI to the Han Hong Love Charity Foundation to support families affected by Alzheimer’s in China and the OSCAR Foundation to support vaccination work in Mumbai slums in India.
You can view all of the recordings here:
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Reminder - Anti-bribery Corruption Report
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Regulations around anti-bribery and corruption (ABC) has been tightened and stakeholder expectations have increased. The PSCI wants to encourage and support members and suppliers to continually enhance their anti‐corruption program for compliance with the latest guidelines issued by different regulatory authorities around the globe. As a result, we commissioned an external benchmark on ABC standards and trends in the supply chain. Download it today to help strengthen your own risk practices. |
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Members and suppliers: Join our online community
Access our full library of resources, register for events and webinars and share audits and other assessments.
Log in or register here.
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10 Members launch Energize: Access to Renewable Energy for Suppliers
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Ten PSCI member companies have launched Energize, a potentially game-changing program to increase access to Renewable Energy for our supply chains. This is an exciting chance to address Scope 3 emissions collaboratively. We fully support it!
Energize aims to accelerate renewable energy adoption and enable bold climate action within the pharmaceutical value chain. This first-of-its-kind industry program will enable pharmaceutical suppliers to learn more about renewable energy adoption and contracting.
Want to know more or get involved? Register your interest here to be contacted by a member of the Schneider Electric Energize team. |
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