We rely on our suppliers and business partners to deliver high-quality, affordable, and accessible products to our customers and patients. Maintaining good relationships helps us reduce risk, ensure a reliable supply, and advance sustainability practices. Our strong relationships with logistics partners are valuable in addressing volatile charges in demand. Viatris aims to be a model for sustainable access to medicine and a reliable partner in addressing enduring health challenges. We achieve this through our diverse portfolio of medicines, a unique global supply chain, and deep scientific expertise.

Reaching Patients

Serve multiple markets and patients worldwide, thanks to our unmatched infrastructure and expertise. We empower patients worldwide by addressing global medical needs and providing innovations. In 2023, we supplied high-quality medicines to ~1 billion patients around the world and sold more than 80 billion doses of medicine across more than 165 countries and territories, reaching more than 90% of low- and middle-income countries (LMICs).

Global, Diversified and Flexible Supply Chains

The global supply chain, with its breadth, resilience, and established efficiencies, continues to be the best structure for maximizing supply availability and enabling access to medicines for patients, regardless of geography. No country makes every medicine it needs, and no medicine is made in every country.

Our global, flexible and diverse supply chain is designed to mitigate risks of disruption and ensure supply reliability, Our responsive global network has helped us maintain a reliable supply of much-needed medicines throughout times of significant demand volatility. Viatris has Supply Chain colleagues in more than 55 countries around the world, monitoring demand and supply daily. They look out over a 24-month horizon to preempt and circumvent supply gaps, collaborating with markets and manufacturing plants on cross-functional action plans.

Learn more about how a global supply chain influences access to medicine here

Working to Advance Sustainable Sourcing

Viatris works with trusted partners around the globe through robust processes, practices and technologies that help us identify, evaluate, select and deliver goods and services that are cost effective, compliant and reliable. By also applying sustainability criteria in supplier engagement, we seek to further reduce risk, build resilience and contribute to more sustainable outcomes for partners across our value chain.

Our sourcing vision is to serve as an:

  • Integrator of social, ethical, and environmental parameters into Viatris Sourcing Practices, Standards & Strategies
  • Partner of Choice®
  • Catalyst for supply resilience ensuring access to more markets and patients worldwide

Partnerships for More Sustainable Outcomes

Partnerships and collaboration are essential for progress, scale and lasting impact. To this end, Viatris is a full, active member of the Pharmaceutical Supply Chain Initiative (PSCI), benefiting from united principles on and helping to promote collectively responsible supply chain management and better conditions across the industry. We currently hold the PSCI chair and are active members of several PSCI working groups.

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Supplier Code of Conduct

Viatris’ Supplier Code of Conduct covers the below overarching areas, with additional detailed expectations across sub-topics:
  • Ethical Business Practices
  • Labor and Human Rights
  • Health and Safety
  • Environment
  • Management Systems
  • Sustainability Management and Disclosure

External stakeholders including members of our supply chain are encouraged to report any concerns via Viatris’ Compliance Line, promoted on Viatris.com and in the Supplier Code of Conduct.

Supplier Code of Conduct

Mitigating Supply Chain Risks

We have a robust due diligence process to better understand supplier capabilities and ensure their ability to comply with regulatory and compliance requirements. As part of de-risking the supply chain, we also have a process for dedicated sustainability risk assessment and a third-party due diligence program focused on high-risk partners, including suppliers.

Working to Make a Difference

Viatris Sustainability Report

We work to continuously advance responsible and sustainable practices and operations and leverage our collective expertise to empower people worldwide to live healthier at every stage of life, recognizing that our actions affect the stakeholders and communities we serve.

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