SupplHi ESG Guidelines
Built with the industry, for the industry, the ESG Supply Chain Guidelines propose a common model to collect and monitor Vendor ESG information while Buyer Organizations keep full control over how it is assessed.
CONTEXT
ESG assessment is still fragmented across Supply Chains
Buyer Organizations need to understand, monitor and improve the ESG performance of their Supply Chains. Regulations, End-Users, Financial Institutions and internal Sustainability goals are increasing the need for structured and updated Vendor information.
Individual ESG assessment models create inefficiencies for the whole industry. Buyers collect and maintain similar information through separate processes and tools.
Vendors answer comparable ESG questions multiple times, often in different formats, and often not for-free.
THE SOLUTION
The SupplHi ESG Supply Chain Guidelines
The ESG Supply Chain Guidelines were developed through an industry workgroup involving international Buyers, SMEs, Sustainability Managers and Vendor Management teams.
The workgroup mapped ESG requirements from End-Users, regulations and existing standards, benchmarked international Buyer practices and defined a common model for ESG information collection, assessment metrics, due diligence procedures and Vendor improvement guidance.
The result is an industry-specific and transparent framework to assess and monitor Vendor ESG Sustainability at a global level. Each Buyer Organization can then decide whether to adopt this framework or adapt it to its needs.
Buyer Organizations use it to structure ESG assessment processes: SupplHi provides the tool, not the methodology, which each Customer defines based on its own internal decisions. Vendors, for their part, can see how their scores are calculated thanks to a dedicated section where information about the methodology are shared.
Download the ESG Supply Chain Guidelines
A framework to support Buyer Organizations and Vendors in the assessment of ESG Sustainability across B2B Supply Chains.
A structured ESG framework for industrial B2B Supply Chains
ESG areas
3
ESG sub-areas
17
ESG industry-shared questions
200+
BENEFITS FOR BUYERS
Granular, Comparable & Transparent
The ESG Supply Chain Guidelines provide Buyer Organizations with a detailed set of industry-shared questions to assess Vendor ESG information with the right level of depth. Buyer Organizations can add any question, if they want.
On SupplHi, Buyers can configure the ESG questionnaire according to their internal requirements, supply categories and risk profiles, while having industry benchmark available across the Vendor base.
ESG information is collected once, organized in a consistent format and easy to consult in the Vendor Profile. This gives Buyer Organizations more control over ESG assessment processes, reduces manual work and supports scalable Supply Chain monitoring without adding costs for Vendors.
BENEFITS FOR VENDORS
Free ESG assessment and reusable information
Vendors can access the SupplHi ESG Meter free of charge directly on the SupplHi platform. This removes one of the main barriers to participation and makes ESG assessment more accessible to smaller Vendors and SMEs.
Vendors can complete the ESG questionnaire at no cost and reuse the same information with multiple Customers each of which evaluates the responses according to its own criteria.
This reduces duplicated work, improves efficiency and gives Vendors greater visibility within the SupplHi network. Their ESG information remains structured, updated and available in one industry-shared environment.
In a one hour live demo session, the SupplHi Team will illustrate the key functionalities of the SupplHi platform for Buyers and preliminarily discuss how your organization can benefit of it.
We are also available to produce a free-of-charge Diagnostic on your current Vendor Management activities through a benchmarking to the industry best practices.