Sedex Certification

Sedex offers a simple and effective way of managing ethical and responsible practices in your supply chain. Our core product is a secure, online database which allows members to store, share and report on information on four key areas:

Labour Standards
Health & Safety
The Environment
Business Ethics


For Buyers
Sedex offers an electronic system for collecting and analysing information on ethical and responsible business practices in your supply chain A variety of reporting tools enables you to keep track of your suppliers performance and you will also have access to an advanced Risk Assessment Tool that we have developed with our partner,

For suppliers AcA A
Sedex provides an efficient and cost effective way of sharing ethical information with multiple customers, helping cut down on unnecessary paperwork and saving you time and money.

Suppliers complete 1 self assessment questionnaire and can choose to share this with multiple customers on Sedex, along with any other relevant ethical information, such as audit reports and certifications.

The Sedex system is secure and confidential and suppliers have complete control over who can view their data.

By allowing suppliers to share the same data with many customers, Sedex helps reduce the need for multiple audits, allowing both parties to concentrate on making real improvements.
Sedex certification enables member companies to efficiently manage the ethical and responsible practices of their global supply chains, generating transparency through the provision of a data exchange.
Sedex is Social Ethical Data Exchange, which helps in managing data of ethical supply chain.

Sedex was founded in 2001 by a group of retailers to ease the monitoring practices and meet the social audit standards. Sedex Audit cost may vary with the number of employees working within the premises of the auditee, whether the employees are permanent, temporary, contractual or agency workers. It also depends upon the type of audit auditee required, 2-pillar or 4-pillar audit. For a modern business, an ethical supply chain is no longer an optional "feel-good" PR tool. Today, consumers, governments and NGOs are putting increasing pressure on brands and retailers to ensure transparency throughout their supply chains. Social accountability is an important element of a company's sourcing and marketing strategy, which helps ensure better product quality, foster consumer loyalty, and emphasize good corporate citizenship. CDG offers comprehensive ethical audit programs that can be conducted according to international standards, your company's in-house specifications or our own Best-In-Class Protocol. All CDG ethical audit programs cover the following aspects: Hygiene, health and safety Waste management Child and young labor Labor practices, including forced labor, worker representation, disciplinary practices and discrimination. Working hours and wages CDG has adopted an approach based on the key competences of auditors attitude, skills and knowledge in line with the reference tools developed by the Global Social Compliance Programme (GSCP). All CDG auditors are professionally certified and undergo regular training to stay up to date with the latest standards and regulatory requirements. The average CDG ethical auditor has performed 500 audits. Contact CDG for SEDEX certification in Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Kolkata, Pune, Chennai, Tirupur, Ahmedabad, Surat, Hyderabad, Jaipur, Moradabad India.