UPS-AS-012 - ISO 44001 Collaborative Business Relationships Alignment Statement

Alignment table

Expectation	Relevant sources	ICCE enforced alignment	ICCE evidence / output
Current source, amendment, revision and certification boundary	Domains 1 and 2 - source status, Amendment 1:2024, draft second edition, application levels, certification, context, interested parties and climate relevance	ICCE preserves the current source, amendment, scope, interested-party and external climate-relevance references while preventing claims that ICCE, a relationship or a project is ISO certified	Source-status reference, application-scope record, external certificate reference, climate-relevance reference, no-certification statement
Collaborative value and mutual-benefit evidence	Domains 3 and 14 - creation of value and Stage 6 value creation	ICCE provides factual worker, payment, labour-chain, performance, exception, continuity and evidence-quality data that may support an external value case without determining mutual benefit or value allocation	Worker outcome evidence, supply-chain visibility, KPI pack, continuity evidence, value-objective and limitation record
Leadership, policy, authority and organisational commitment	Domain 4 - leadership, commitment, policy and organisational authority	ICCE preserves externally approved leadership, policy, sponsor, relationship-owner, delegated-authority and review references while keeping commitment and culture organisational	Policy reference, leadership record, role and authority evidence, review and approval chronology
Planning, objectives, risk and relationship prioritisation	Domain 5 - planning, risks, opportunities, objectives and relationship prioritisation	ICCE preserves labour-route, counterparty, payment, grievance, exception, continuity and evidence-gap facts against externally defined objectives, risks and priorities	Risk chronology, objective and target record, relationship-priority reference, exception and corrective-action evidence
Competence, behaviour and collaborative culture boundary	Domain 6 - resources, competence, behaviour, awareness and collaborative culture	ICCE preserves external competence, training, behaviour-assessment and resource references where supplied, while keeping trust, culture and behavioural maturity external	External training reference, role and completion evidence, behaviour-assessment reference, culture boundary statement
Communication, information and knowledge sharing	Domain 7 - communication, information, knowledge management and documented information	ICCE provides controlled source authority, truth-state, recipient visibility, external-input, correction, release and reproducibility evidence for labour-chain information	Shared evidence view, recipient and release log, external-input record, correction lineage, reproducibility pack
Relationship Management Plan and operational control	Domain 8 - operational planning, control and Relationship Management Plan	ICCE links worker, counterparty, contract, KPI, risk, action and review evidence to externally governed relationship-plan references without owning the full plan	Relationship-plan reference, labour-scope linkage, action tracker, KPI evidence, review and change record
Operational awareness, knowledge and internal assessment	Domains 9, 10 and 11 - Stage 1 operational awareness, Stage 2 knowledge and Stage 3 internal assessment	ICCE provides capability, boundary, implementation-status, labour-chain, worker-outcome, risk, continuity and evidence-gap information supporting external readiness and business-case assessment	Capability profile, implementation-status record, labour baseline, evidence-gap register, external business-case reference
Partner selection boundary	Domain 12 - Stage 4 partner selection	ICCE contributes counterparty identity, onboarding, worker-route, performance, exception, certification-reference and evidence-coverage information without selecting, ranking or approving partners	Counterparty record, onboarding status, external certificate reference, performance evidence, no-selection statement
Working together and joint issue management	Domains 13 and 17 - Stage 5 working together; joint governance, roles, escalation and dispute resolution	ICCE provides common authorised labour evidence, party-specific views, issue records, disputes, corrections, remediation and external governance references while preserving retained authority	Common evidence view, dispute chronology, escalation record, remediation evidence, external governance reference
Staying together and performance review	Domains 15 and 18 - Stage 7 staying together; performance monitoring, measurement, analysis and relationship health	ICCE preserves recurring worker, payment, chain, exception, grievance, remediation, capacity, continuity and KPI evidence while keeping relationship-health and behavioural evaluation external	Periodic performance pack, relationship KPI output, continuity visibility, remediation tracker, external relationship-health reference
Exit strategy and controlled close-out	Domain 16 - Stage 8 exit strategy	ICCE preserves externally governed exit, transition, effective-date, worker, payroll, payment, counterparty, access, evidence-retention and unresolved-exception records within ICCE scope	Exit and transition reference, worker and payment close-out evidence, access-change log, open-exception and retention record
Internal audit, management review and improvement	Domains 19, 20 and 21 - internal audit, management review, nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement	ICCE preserves audit-ready evidence, source manifests, performance summaries, nonconformity references, corrective actions, effectiveness review and improvement evidence without conducting the full ISO audit	Audit evidence pack, management-review evidence pack, corrective-action record, effectiveness-review reference, improvement history
Information security, confidentiality, IP and controlled sharing	Domain 22 - information security, confidentiality, intellectual property and controlled sharing	ICCE enforces role and recipient visibility, release history, data minimisation and external-rule references without replacing cyber, legal, IP or confidentiality governance	Access and release log, restricted-evidence control, external confidentiality or IP reference, unsupported-data statement
Supply-chain, extended-enterprise and ecosystem collaboration	Domain 23 - supply-chain, extended-enterprise, ecosystem and SME relationships	ICCE preserves recognised agency, counterparty, worker, chain-coverage, change and gap evidence that can support externally governed supply-chain collaboration without governing the ecosystem	Responsible-supply-chain visibility pack, chain-coverage statement, counterparty evidence, known-gap and external-tier record
Legal relationship and procurement boundary	Domain 24 - relationship identity, legal classification and procurement boundary	ICCE preserves classification-safe roles and authority boundaries so collaborative evidence does not imply partnership, agency, joint venture, joint employment, procurement authority or shared liability	Role-boundary statement, procurement-context record, authority and decision boundary, no-legal-partnership statement

Sources covered

Principal source set

ISO 44001:2017 - Collaborative business relationship management systems - Requirements and framework
ISO 44001:2017/Amd 1:2024 - Climate action changes
ISO/TR 44000:2019 - Principles for successful collaborative business relationship management
ISO 44002:2019 implementation-guidance context assessed in UPS-012
Related ISO 44000-series publications assessed in UPS-012

Current source and transition context covered

ISO 44001:2017 publication date: March 2017
Amendment 1:2024 publication date: February 2024
Current normative assessment basis: ISO 44001:2017 with Amendment 1:2024
Current ISO lifecycle status assessed in UPS-012: published, current and marked to be revised
ISO/DIS 44001 Edition 2 recorded as a source-change trigger only
Draft second-edition requirements not treated as current authority

ISO 44001 management-system structure covered

Context of the organisation
Leadership
Planning
Support
Operation
Performance evaluation
Improvement

Eight collaborative relationship lifecycle stages covered

Stage 1 - Operational awareness
Stage 2 - Knowledge
Stage 3 - Internal assessment
Stage 4 - Partner selection
Stage 5 - Working together
Stage 6 - Value creation
Stage 7 - Staying together
Stage 8 - Exit strategy

Collaborative relationship principles covered

Relationship management
Vision and values
Business objectives
Collaborative leadership
Governance and processes
Collaborative competence and behaviour
Trust and commitment to mutual benefit
Value creation
Information and knowledge sharing
Risk management
Relationship measurement and optimisation
Exit strategy

Detailed alignment domains covered

Domain 1 - Source status, amendment, revision, application levels and certification
Domain 2 - Context, interested parties, scope and climate relevance
Domain 3 - Creation of value
Domain 4 - Leadership, commitment, policy and organisational authority
Domain 5 - Planning, risks, opportunities, objectives and relationship prioritisation
Domain 6 - Resources, competence, behaviour, awareness and collaborative culture
Domain 7 - Communication, information and knowledge management and documented information
Domain 8 - Operational planning, control and Relationship Management Plan
Domain 9 - Stage 1: Operational awareness
Domain 10 - Stage 2: Knowledge
Domain 11 - Stage 3: Internal assessment
Domain 12 - Stage 4: Partner selection
Domain 13 - Stage 5: Working together
Domain 14 - Stage 6: Value creation
Domain 15 - Stage 7: Staying together
Domain 16 - Stage 8: Exit strategy
Domain 17 - Joint governance, roles, escalation and dispute resolution
Domain 18 - Performance monitoring, measurement, analysis and relationship health
Domain 19 - Internal audit
Domain 20 - Management review
Domain 21 - Nonconformity, corrective action and continual improvement
Domain 22 - Information security, confidentiality, intellectual property and controlled sharing
Domain 23 - Supply-chain, extended-enterprise, ecosystem and SME relationships
Domain 24 - Relationship identity, legal classification and procurement boundary

Core certification and collaboration boundary covered

ISO 44001 certification applies only to an identified organisation and stated scope where a valid external certificate exists.
ICCE may provide selected evidence supporting collaborative relationship management.
ICCE does not create trust, shared vision, mutual benefit, partner compatibility, collaborative behaviour, legal partnership or ISO 44001 certification.