EcoVadis
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 190 purchasing categories and 150 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Nestlé, Schneider Electric, Michelin and BASF are among the more than 45,000 businesses on the EcoVadis network, all working with a single methodology to evaluate, collaborate and improve sustainability performance in order to protect their brands, foster transparency and innovation, and accelerate growth.
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/
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
- Environmental – carbon emissions
- Labor practices
- Corruption & bribery
- Product end-of-life
