Creating value responsibly

When we challenge ourselves to innovate with integrity, we advance our contributions as global corporate citizens.

At Boston Scientific, our teams are guided by strong ethics, core values and respect for human life. We make products people trust and work together across our global supply chain to deliver solutions that change and save lives.

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Our priorities

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Maintaining governance that reflects our priorities and values

We have a longstanding commitment to strong corporate governance, ethics and regulatory compliance. Our governance structure is outlined in the Corporate Governance Guidelines, which has been adopted by the Boston Scientific Board of Directors.

Working with compliance, ethics and integrity

We act with ethics and integrity in all our working relationships, inside and outside the company. Our Compliance team provides the training and resources our employees need to ensure they are conducting business responsibly, treating customers and suppliers fairly and reporting any ethics concerns.

Learn more about our Code of Conduct on our compliance and ethics website

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Protecting human rights

We respect and strictly adhere to all labor and human rights laws, including those related to modern slavery, child labor, human trafficking, bribery, discrimination, harassment and pay equity. We require our contractors, suppliers and partners to conduct their businesses legally and ethically as well.

Please visit our labor and human rights website and supplier resource center to learn more.

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Keeping our supply chain resilient and reliable

We maintain business continuity through new risk-management measures while meeting the highest standards for quality, service, ethics and compliance. These efforts include engaging with suppliers to understand all sources of carbon emissions in our network.

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Managing risk and global security

Our enterprise experts assess potential vulnerabilities to safeguard our supply chain. They analyze strategic, operational, financial, legal and compliance risks so we can safely pursue opportunities, adapt quickly in the face of challenges and meet our commitments.

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Ensuring cybersecurity and data privacy

The cybersecurity of our products and patient data is critical. Our global cybersecurity team takes a centralized data privacy approach to safeguarding all systems, notification apps, connected medical devices and clinician interfaces.

Learn more about our approach to product security

2022 highlights

The company took new steps to safeguard data privacy and ensure ethical practices throughout our operations. Through ramped-up risk profiling, we protected our business from unforeseen events and delivered our devices to more providers and patients than ever before.

~37 million

products delivered in 2022

10,000+ hours

of sales and marketing compliance training for customer-facing employees

99%+

of all employees have completed Code of Conduct training

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Advancing ideal product flow to make greater impact

Millions of patients rely on our life-changing technologies each year— which is why our end-to-end global supply chain organization is supported by an agile network adept at aligning our business operations and environmental, social and governance priorities, while ensuring we deliver products with integrity and accountability.

We began a new process for end-to-end product flow that improves how our products are sourced, manufactured, packaged, shipped and distributed. These changes are expected to increase direct shipping to destination regions to about 90% and significantly reduce supply chain costs by 2026. These results will in part come from postponing product packaging until the product’s destination is determined, then including only the requisite printed materials to reduce packaging waste and shipping weight. In addition, we are optimizing shipping routes and, when feasible, transporting freight by sea rather than air to produce fewer emissions. This approach enables us to meet the growing demand for our products and reliably deliver them to our customers and their patients, while making our supply chain more sustainable.

“Our supply chain is uniquely positioned to deliver life changing products to our customers, while also continuing to have a positive impact on our carbon footprint. We challenge and empower our teams to make responsible decisions – the result is continuous change that makes sense for our business and the world around us. ”

– Paudie O'Connor, senior vice president, Global Supply Chain