SAQ-Guideline for Improvement
Guide on how to achieve an SAQ-Score > 70%

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Gaps and Recommendations – Areas of Improvement from previous SAQ-Report:

In your validated SAQ-Report you can find areas named “Gaps” or “Recommendation”.
These two areas aim at providing you information about your results and guide you, which areas can be
improved by which measures.
You are encouraged to improve your SAQ based on both gaps and recommendations:
Gaps:

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Gaps cover identified discrepancies.
On the one hand a gap has been
mentioned because something has beendeclared in the report but there is missing
evidence or on the other hand there is a
gap because something has been found in
the evidence but is not declared in thereport.
Closing gaps can be a quick way to
improve the SAQ-score directly.

Recommendations:• Recommendations are recommended areas
for improvement that the supplier should
implement in the future to improve its SAQ
score.
• Based on these recommendations due dates
for corrective actions can be set.
• Recommendations are more general but
should also be considered for theimprovement

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SAQ 5.0 Scoring System – Calculating your Score

Starting at page 29 of the ”Sustainability Assessment Questionnaire on CSR” you can find the SAQ 5.0 Scoring

Example:System which explains in detail which answers achieve which percentage of the final score.

Content in environmental policy:

The Scoring System explains for example how many points you get for fulfilling or not fulfilling a point and which
exact contents are requested in the policies. Hence, you can calculate your score before entering the finalquestionnaire for validation and you can identify areas in which you can improve yourself.

Additionally, the following document can help you to quickly check how you perform against
the Drive Sustainability criteria and strengthen your performance before completing a digital
copy of the questionnaire on the platform: Template for Calculation of SAQ-Score
Please see here an example of the SAQ-Score-calculation before and after adhering to thisguide’s improvement suggestions:

SAQ-Score-exemplary calculation (attached)

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IMPROVEMENTSAQ Focus Areas – What can you do to drastically improve your SAQ score?

Drive sustainability developed the SAQ Focus Areas which introduce the key supplier performance indicators on the environmental, social and governance(ESG) topics that are prioritized by the OEM members as well as practical recommendations on how to effectively meet these expectations.

The SAQ Focus Areas focus on the following two topics:•Implementation of a Code of Conduct for employees and external partners (questions 3, 3a, 18, 18a, 18b, 18c)•

Implementation of an Environmental and Social Management System (questions 6, 8, 11)

By adopting these indicators, a SAQ-Score of 50% can be achieved.

See here the explanation of SAQ Focus Areas: SAQ Focus Areas

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Fulfilling Schaeffler’s requirements of SAQ-Score > 70

Our sustainability requirement for our Suppliers is the development of an SAQ-Score of minimum 70 until the year 2030.
Accordingly, we provide you an overview of which topics should be prioritized, as they are relatively easy to implement, achieve a high score and arerelevant for a sustainable development.

Prio 1 (+34%)• Senior management representation forenvironmental, social, ethics or humanrights• Code of Conduct• No substances with restrictions under
any national or international statutory
provision in production or operations (+procedures)

Prio 2 (+27%)

SAQ-Score > 70%

Prio 3 (+10%)• Grievance mechanism• Human Rights and Working conditions
Policy• Health and Safety Policy• Business Ethics Policy• Environmental Policy

Implementation and certification of atleast one Management System with ascore of 10%
Or alternatively: combination of several
uncertified Management Systems+ Trainings

See here the SAQ Improvement Guideline:• Responsible Sourcing of materials

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