Project: Supplier

This supplier supports a few key customers that were increasingly sending corporate responsibility customer questionnaires about its sustainability efforts. The company was new to the sustainability space and had no formal process for responding to these new types of corporate social responsibility questionnaires it was receiving from the media and socially responsible investors in addition to its key customers.

Sustainable Business Consulting engaged with the client to:

• Develop a common resource/answer key for responding to  various types of customer and supplier corporate responsibility questionnaires around social and environmental issues. These were in compliance with the GRI, CDP, and other 3rd party requirements from its major customers.
• Calculated its greenhouse gas inventory and identified easy  sustainability actions that the company could implement to improve its corporate responsibility performance. 
• Developed quantitative and qualitative responses to corporate responsibility reports that could be copied & pasted into external sustainability communications and questionnaires easily and efficiently.

The tools that SBC built enabled the supplier to quickly respond to multiple sustainability questionnaires it received. By streamlining the corporate responsibility reporting process, the company saved up to 75% in both employee time and associated costs.