Guide: how to choose a supplier engagement tool
Reliable data, suppliers who answer, and a programme that scales.
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Supplier engagement
Your scope 3 moves when your suppliers move
Every product in your range has a footprint on day one. Invite the suppliers behind it, tier by tier, and the footprints update as their data lands. Free for every supplier.
Purchased goods and inbound transport are 90 to 97 percent of a retailer's or wholesaler's footprint, in the inventories we run.
Three situations. One answer
A questionnaire came back in as many formats as there were suppliers
Here, suppliers enter data into your model, not a spreadsheet you have to translate.
A supplier is thirty percent below the benchmark and you cannot tell why
One model for benchmark and supplier figures. The difference is real, or it is not there.
The data sits two tiers up, at the converter or the farm
Requests travel to the tier that holds the data, and the answer travels back.
How a programme runs
Model first. Invite in waves. Track where the data lands
1
Model the range first
Every product in the category is calculated before a single supplier is invited, so every supplier arrives to their product, already there.
A full range in weeks. Then the invitations.
2
Invite in waves
Start with the suppliers that matter most. Requests and reminders go out automatically, and each supplier can pass the request on to their own suppliers.
Staged communication, in the supplier’s language.
3
Agree and track, where the data lands
Set a target with each supplier and follow it where they report. Your portfolio view adds up progress toward your own target.
Packaging attributes under PPWR travel in the same request.
Packaging and PPWRWhat the invitation says
Your product is already here, with a benchmark figure. Enter your own data and the figure becomes yours. It is free, and your customer sees the result, never the recipe.
The programmes that work are the ones suppliers want to be in
Free, and theirs
Their own account and data. Results travel to you; the recipe never does.
Judged on the same factor
Their data sits next to the same benchmark as everyone else’s, so a real improvement shows.
Once, for every customer
The footprint they enter for you answers the next customer who asks.
Their suppliers behind them
They can invite upstream in turn, so tiers open without you writing an email.
What you see
How much of your number is theirs, and what moved it
Across the range: the Primary Data Share by category, supplier and product, and the Data Quality Index.
On every movement: the Change Log, separating supplier reductions from data improvements.
By origin: every link declared by the party that holds it, so land emissions are reported by commodity and origin.
What you can say
The share of purchased volume resting on supplier primary data, with last year's beside it.
Per category, as the GHG Protocol asks.Supplier reductions on the record, separated from data improvements.
Product by product, in the Change Log.Then coordinate
Nobody invests in the wrong thing at the wrong time
Hotspots by supplier and ingredient, scenarios priced with your internal carbon price, and shared plans with the suppliers who hold the lever.
Customer proof
Programmes running at retailers and wholesalers today
How Bidfood brought its suppliers in: read the story
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Pick one category. Every product in it has a footprint on day one; the invitations go out from there.