EcoVadis

EcoVadis is a sustainability rating platform for global supply chains. EcoVadis Scorecards make it easy to understand, track and improve environmental, social and ethical performance worldwide. More than 20,000 companies use EcoVadis to reduce risk, drive innovation and foster transparency and trust between trading partners.

Buyers ask their suppliers to be rated by EcoVadis’ experts on their sustainability performance following EcoVadis’ assessment methodology (150 purchasing categories, 110 countries, and 21 CSR indicators). After the questionnaire has been completed by suppliers and necessary internal documents like policies or procedural instructions are attached, EcoVadis analysts rate it and the results are published in a scorecard, which then foms the necessary basis for improvement and discussions with buyers.

Starter: EcoVadis Response Check

Make sure your answers to the questionnaire are in line with EcoVadis’ requirements. Our team will get into the system, check your answers, provide a short report on how to improve the format by indicating table with missing references, wrong document attachment, errors in question path, unanswered questions. In this sense, you will have specific feedback on how to improve the format of the answers and alignment with EcoVadis principle.

Learn more how DFGE supports with its EcoVadis Response Check various corporations from various branches to optimize their ratings.

EcoVadis – complete

Our team will fill out the questionnaire with the right existing documents, and will then help identify a CSR Improvement Strategy using the results. Our team answers the questionnaire, selects the proper documents, suggests more documents to be added, and then uploads them into the system and fills in the answers.  Then, we will formalize a prioritized Improvement Plan with solutions. To do so, we will analyze each document to provide specific guidance on how to improve them. We will synthesize it in a general CSR Roadmap which specifies spheres of activity and time frame.

Services

In the context of your EcoVadis participation, we can offer you further services which are adjusted according to your advancement in the EcoVadis process. Our free webinars provide a first overview, on-site trainings make sure that your sustainability team gets to know and understands the basics of CSR reporting.

For beginners, we also offer a turn-key response product, based on the already existing policies your company has – you just have to check and approve it, we take over the rest.

Based on your current EcoVadis status, meaning your last answered EcoVadis questionnaire, we offer you a creation of the required improvement strategy. This helps you to set up a CSR road map, in which concrete measures are adjusted to your company and prioritized.

Finally, we support you throughout the process of implementation, create the required policies and assist during the application in your daily business.

Your advantages:

• Expert knowledge: Make use of our experience. We are the first official partner of EcoVadis in the DACH region. Our team consists of CSR experts with more than 20 years of experience with various CSR reporting standards like UNGC, CDP, GRI – and EcoVadis.
• Scalability: Profit from horizontal and vertical scalability. No matter if you are a SMB or a company acting worldwide, no matter if you are an EcoVadis beginner or if you are already taking part for several years.

• Progress: Improve your sustainability management system. We help you provide a better answer to your EcoVadis questionnaire which leads to address risks, better manage client’s requests, better monitor the success of your actions, better communicate on your commitments.
• Turnkey solution: We minimize your workload by creating a turnkey solution, going from the formalization of responses to the creation of required documents.

• Time-saving solution: Within only 2-7 weeks, you get a finalized solution. We work “iteratively and recursively”, meaning that you always get the answer which suits best at a certain moment. In the following years, these answers are checked, complemented and expanded. This way, you can document a continuous improvement process.  You don’t sign a perennial consultancy contract in which you are bound for several years.