EcoVadis

205 East 42nd St, 20th floor | New York, NY | 10017 United States

http://www.ecovadis.com

sales@ecovadis.com

+1 917 398 3333

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EcoVadis is the first collaborative platform providing sustainability ratings and performance improvement tools for global supply chains. EcoVadis’ easy-to-use Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) scorecards help procurement teams to monitor supplier sustainability practices across 150 purchasing categories and 110 countries.

EcoVadis’ full-service offering can help at all phases from designing a code of conduct,change management planning, training, procurement software integration, supplier onboarding, and dedicated program management. Our CSR assessment methodology covers 21 sustainability indicators in four themes: environment, ethics, social/labor, and supply chain. Our expert team creates CSR Ratings and Scorecards using a diversity of data sources including sector-optimized questionnaire, as well as ‘360 watch’ of relevant news and watchlists. Buyers get simple, reliable indicators at significantly reduced administrative cost. Suppliers get actionable scorecard with benchmarks and feedback to make improvements, and a network that eliminates redundancy by sharing results with multiple clients.

Over 150 industry leaders from a wide variety of sectors use EcoVadis to reduce risk, drive innovation and foster transparency and trust among over 30,000 trading partners. As well, a growing number of Industry Sector Initiatives use EcoVadis to collaborate for even greater efficiencies in driving CSR performance in the supply chain (noted by *). Sectors and example customers include:
- Pharma/Beauty - GSK, Johnson & Johnson, l'Oreal, Coty, Merck KGA...
- ICT (*http://gesi.org/e-tasc/) - Deutsche Telekom, EE, Nokia, Orange, Swisscom, Telefonica, Telenor, Telia , Verizon...
- Rail (*railsponsible.org) DB, SNCF, NS-Nederland rail, Alstom, ...
- Chemicals (*TfS-initiative.com) - AkzoNobel, Bayer, BASF, Eastman, Dupont, Merck...
- Energy/Environment - Centrica, Technip, Veolia, Umicore, Cascades...
- Finance - Axa, ING, Societe Generale, Credit Agricole, SEB, Capita, ...
- Construction - Lafargeholcim, Valourec, Saint-Gobain, Spie, NSG,...
- Consumer goods/Food - Nestle, Heineken, Coca-Cola European partners, Ferrero, Dr Oetker, Bel, ...
- Manufacturing - Peugeot-Citroen, Renault, Faurecia, Bombardier, Schneider Electric
- Transport/logistics - KLM/Air France, DHL /Deutsch Post
- Other industrials and related such as Air Liquide, Eneco, DCNS,

Overview

Spend Matters 50/50: EcoVadis – A Provider to Watch in 2015

EcoVadis is a fresh take on what most think of as corporate social responsibility (CSR) a concept that EcoVadis has broadened to what it calls sustainable supply management – an approach that stands on 3 recognizable legs:

Risk management – brand protection, compliance, as well as reducing supply base risk exposure and improved remediation
Total cost of ownership reduction – through more effective sourcing, reduced over-specification and lowered compliance costs
Revenue enhancement – product differentiation, new markets

The company takes a more holistic approach than most and covers a broad range; from assessments, with a stringent certification process (where suppliers can attain different levels of conformance, not just pass/fail), combined with professional services and consultative business insights. The results are also provided as benchmarks to clients to help them assess where they stand. Regarding the suppliers, they are scored in a highly granular fashion, making this more of a continuous improvement journey rather than a quick paperwork one-and-done, which suits the nature of a sustainable operation. The company has more than 20,000 certified suppliers in its database, spanning close to 100 countries in a total of 150 categories. On the client side, the solution touches suppliers across 120 organizations with a combined total of $1 trillion in annual spend. Spend Matters finds EcoVadis interesting because of its strong certification process, its robust data model, the many-to-many scalability where buyers gain broader insights and benchmarks and suppliers derive significant savings in staying compliant as well as gain business upside via exposure to EcoVadis' clients. Clients use the company to stay on top of their supply base and their performance in several areas: