How does Chipotle build long-term partnerships with farmers and suppliers to maintain product integrity? Our long-term partnerships with farmers and suppliers are built through our commitment to Food with Integrity. We require all suppliers and farmers to use sustainably grown and raised ingredients, avoid non-therapeutic antibiotics and added hormones and be compliant with labour and environmental laws. We are continuously vetting suppliers for compliance through company-led and third-party audits to ensure our rigorous standards are met.
How has Chipotle adapted its supplier governance model to account for changes in global supply chain risk, such as climate events or geopolitical challenges? We’ ve embedded risk sensing and resilience directly into supplier relationship management( SRM).
Our teams map climate and geopolitical exposure at the ingredient and region level, diversify origin where feasible and dual-source critical categories. We run scenario planning for extreme weather, add surge capacity and safety stock for at-risk items, and maintain playbooks for logistics disruptions.
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