Customers are not buying and negotiating based only on price any more. Most large corporations - such as your clients - are under immense pressure from stakeholders to be transparent about their sustainability and CSR practices, and this includes their supply chains.
Over 58% of the Global 5000 set CSR codes & policies for supply partners.(Ceres Gaining Ground)
CSR a growing factor in procurement decisions (Examples of weighting of CSR)
Top goals for buying organizations are to identify risks and opportunities. How do you want to be measured?
… But as companies have begun launching internal/homegrown CSR assessment programs, it has created a challenge for suppliers: multiple, duplicative surveys, and little feedback, and no focus on guidance or incentives to improve.
Measuring CSR performance on EcoVadis’ detailed 1-100 scale across 4 themes
Rewarding good performance and pushing clients to provide similar incentives
Benchmarks, strengths & improvement areas, and interactive action plans guide improvements
Some examples of the 125+ global supply chains we are working with include Heineken, Alcatel-Lucent, and Schneider Electric, with goals to reduce risk, improve performance and ultimately identify new sources of innovation.
The problem: Whether from CSR audits or ‘self-assessments’, most of our supplier customers were facing challenges such as:
Receiving multiple, duplicative surveys
Little opportunity to demonstrate good performance
Lack of feedback on priorities and how to improve
With the EcoVadis CSR Scorecards you can measure and demonstrate your company’s CSR performance on a rich, multi-tiered scale, and share it with multiple clients with maximum credibility, confidentiality and control.
Profile used to optimize survey to your size, industry sector, location, etc.
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Independent document audit, evaluation & analysis from CSR experts.
Share results, collaborate directly online with clients, and improve performance.
Expert assessment & analysis distills your data into an informative Scorecard: Easily view your performance on four themes.
Read moreCompare your scores against others in your category; Access an industry profile of best practices to improve performance.
Read moreEcoVadis SP provides a rich set of communication tools* to tell your CSR success story in your website, PR, etc. including your CSR ScoreCard, Detailed profile, Industry report, Badges, Certificates
Focused guidance with strengths and Improvement areas guide that lets you ‘drill down’ into the 21 detailed criteria, helping you track and improve your company’s CSR/sustainability performance