Context
Green procurement is increasingly becoming a key concern for organizations, whether to comply with international standards or to embed sustainability in supplier relationships.
In early 2024, one of our clients' procurement department needed to strengthen its ESG credentials as part of its goal to achieve an EcoVadis Silver Medal. The company was under pressure from a major customer to improve its sustainability score or risk losing business. The challenge was significant: the procurement team had limited visibility of their suppliers' ESG risks and only three weeks to provide the risk analysis required by Eco Vadis. The aim is to deliver a robust and EcoVadis compliant ESG risk analysis within a very short timeframe, enabling the company to both meet its client's expectations and initiate a more structured green procurement strategy.
Our impact
Intysify responded by deploying a two-week delivery mission with a team that included Intys Delivery Manager and ESG risk expert. Our objective was to identify and prioritize ESG risks across all the procurement categories managed by the company. Our consultants developed and implemented a 'Forced Risk Ranking' methodology that was specifically designed to be quick to implement, tailored to our client's operational reality and easy to communicate.
We started by mapping the main sourcing categories and then conducted interviews with category managers using a structured questionnaire. Each manager was asked to rank the key ESG risks in their category. We supplemented the interview results with insights from industry benchmarks, NGO reports and ESG databases to ensure a well-rounded and evidence-based analysis. We then worked with the procurement team to create a scoring system that assigned each category a low, medium or high level of risk. This enabled the team to clearly understand their ESG exposure and prioritize actions accordingly.
Thanks to our support, the company was able to produce an EcoVadis-compliant ESG risk matrix, a top 10 list of the most critical ESG risks affecting the procurement function and a concise, visual report that allows all stakeholders - internal and external - to understand the results in less than 5 minutes. In addition, our client was able to meet its Eco Vadis reporting deadline and position itself to win the silver medal. More importantly, they now have a foundational ESG risk framework on which to build a more resilient and sustainable procurement strategy.
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