Working Conditions in Our Supply Chain

Beyond our own facilities, we aim to ensure that everything used to make our vehicles is produced consistent with local law and our CBWC. This is a major undertaking, as Ford has several thousand supplier facilities globally. (See supply chain profile.) It is also a critical undertaking, as we have less control in suppliers' facilities than in our own, particularly at the sub-tier level.

Our long-term vision is for our industry as a whole to converge on a set of common expectations for the global automotive supply chain and then work together with suppliers to ensure that these expectations are met. We have taken a series of steps in that direction, beginning with defining our own expectations for suppliers.