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SAP Ariba and Givewith partner on social-impact matching service
November 18, 2019 | JP Morris
SAP Ariba and Givewith today announced a partnership where Givewith’s social impact solution will be available on the SAP App Center, giving SAP clients access to a matching service that allows them to find nonprofits to give donations. Businesses increasingly are concerned with sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), and Givewith analyzes thousands of nonprofits…
EcoVadis CSR Index sees progress on labor and human rights, but procurement sustainability falls short
October 30, 2019 | Alex Behrens
Sustainable practices are slowly being embraced by companies around the globe, but performance has actually fallen in some key areas, according to EcoVadis’ newly released Global CSR Risk and Performance Index 2019. The greatest increase was recorded in human rights and labor rights activities where aggregate scores for performance rose from 45.4% in 2017 to…
EcoVadis — Catching Up on a Provider to Know
October 18, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
EcoVadis, a provider of ratings on companies’ sustainability and corporate social responsibility efforts, was named to Spend Matters’ 50 to Know list six months ago. It’s the third year running that it has been highlighted as one of the providers to know in the procurement technology sector that we cover. This year, we’ve taken an…
EcoVadis, NYU report on the state of sustainable procurement
August 29, 2019 | Kyra Senese
Sustainability efforts paired with technological growth continuously affect the way business leaders plan for their companies’ futures. As budgetary and operational plans are considered, thought leaders in the supply chain and procurement space are evaluating sustainability as an asset that can stifle risk and bring about further economic growth. EcoVadis, a firm that works to…
ASCM launches Enterprise Certification to improve supply chains’ focus on ecology, economics, ethics
August 5, 2019 | Kelly Hogan
The Association of Supply Chain Management (ASCM) announced the launch of the ASCM Enterprise Certification, the first-of-its-kind, global cross-industry standards guide to benchmark progress and measure the ethical, environmental and economic initiatives of corporate supply chains.
Digital Business Strategy: The CPO’s Outside-In Agenda (Part 3) - [PRO Content]
July 30, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Michael Lamoureux
In the first two installments of this Spend Matters PRO series (see Part 1A, Part 1B), we noted that a number of pressing issues are shaping procurement from the outside in, yet chief procurement officers (CPOs) are still primarily concerned with issues set by an inside-out agenda — that is, cost-cutting and supply assurance targets…
Visibility is Key to Managing CSR Risks in Indirect Spend, EcoVadis Says (Part 3)
May 9, 2019 | JP Morris
Indirect spend often gets overlooked by businesses because the outcomes from buying those goods and services are not the company’s core product, which relies on direct spend. But the potential for lost money and increased risk is so great that businesses must find a way to manage indirect spend. “The broad reach of indirect spend,…
AI in Supplier Management: Tomorrow (Part 1) - [PRO Content]
May 6, 2019 | Michael Lamoureux
In our last pair of Spend Matters PRO articles about AI in supplier management today, Part 1 and Part 2, we overviewed some situations where you can find AI in e-sourcing platforms today, where we define AI as “assisted intelligence” because, as we've stated in our series about AI, there is no true artificial intelligence…
Q&A on Digital Procurement’s Role in Sustainability, Ethics and Compliance - [PRO Content]
April 23, 2019 | Pierre Mitchell
As supply chains get increasingly externalized and globalized, the broad scope of operations is subject to equally broad regulatory oversight and supply risk. Meanwhile, as consumers increasingly demand transparency and ethical behavior by value chain brand owners, supply chain organizations at those brands (and also at their suppliers), are having to increasingly respond to these…
Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and CSR: The CPO’s Outside-In Agenda (Part 2B) - [PRO Content]
March 29, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Michael Lamoureux
In our last article in this Spend Matters PRO series, we focused on several pressing issues that are shaping procurement from the outside in, yet chief procurement officers are primarily still concerned with issues set by an inside-out agenda — that is, cost-cutting and supply assurance targets mandated by upper management. However, our PESTLE analysis…
Sustainability, Environmental Stewardship and CSR: The CPO’s Outside-In Agenda (Part 2A) - [PRO Content]
March 28, 2019 | Nick Heinzmann and Michael Lamoureux
In this first installment of this Spend Matters PRO series (see Part 1A and Part 1B), we noted that a number of pressing issues are shaping procurement from the outside in, yet chief procurement officers (CPOs) are primarily still concerned with issues set by an inside-out agenda — that is, cost cutting and supply assurance…
EcoVadis to Add Risk Mapping Tool, On-Site Audit Feature to Its Core CSR Rating
March 26, 2019 | Spend Matters Team
EcoVadis, a provider that rates businesses on sustainability and corporate social responsibility (CSR), announced Tuesday that it is expanding its capabilities with the new Sustainability Intelligence Suite, which will include "predictive risk mapping, performance signals and audit management."

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