Supply Chain Sustainability & Responsible Sourcing

Creating ethical, just and environmentally friendly supply chains through transparency, traceability, compliance, supplier engagement and continuous improvement.

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Championing Transparency, Responsibility, and a Resilient Supply Chain

The core of a sustainable business is found within its supply chain and operations. We know that to safeguard our natural ecosystems and protect the livelihoods and well-being of people around the world we must invest in creating sustainable supply chains.

Sustainability priorities for organisations continue to grow. While energy and decarbonisation remain high on the priority list, there is a heightened focus and commitment from organisations to drive progress on key impact areas including human rights, social impact and DEI, circularity and waste, pollution, nature and biodiversity, and water stewardship. The best pathway to driving impact on these initiatives lies within the broader value chain. However, the global landscape and complexity of these networks result in companies struggling to fully understand how these risks and opportunities that traverse across issues, industries and locations truly impact their business and how to prioritise, plan and implement tools for identification, mitigation, reporting and impact.

Supply Chain Services

How do businesses make supply chains more sustainable? Our team of supply chain sustainability and responsible sourcing experts can help you embed sustainability into your procurement and production processes, creating a wealth of benefits from mitigating and managing risks, complying with global and local regulations, enhancing, and protecting your reputation, and creating competitive advantages that contribute to long-term business success in an evolving and complex global landscape.

We support clients to drive truly sustainable change on a global scale. The team works with a diverse range of brands, retailers, suppliers, and manufacturers to understand the sustainability performance of their suppliers and consider both the social and environmental impacts of global supply chains.

Supply Chain Strategy & Governance

Supply Chain Governance is built on 3 core principles: transparency, accountability and sustainability. By implementing and embracing a robust supply chain strategy and governance practice organizations can ensure that they are proactively prepared for supply chain disruptions while contributing to positive value chain impacts and the creation of a more just and sustainable world. 

We provide a tailored and comprehensive approach to support businesses seeking to embed sustainability into their core operations, by developing, implementing and managing sustainable practices and governance frameworks that foster responsible and resilient supply chains.

Strategy & Governance

Supplier Engagement Program Design and Implementation

Our supplier engagement service supports organisations in developing a proactive and strategic approach to building strong, sustainable and mutually  beneficial relationships with suppliers. Our experts will help you understand and quantify your Scope 3 (supply chain) emissions and work with you to determine the right levers to engage your internal and external stakeholders, implementing change management plans to deliver decarbonisation across your supply chain. We’ll design and deploy supplier engagement programs that enable supplier action and capacity building on various ESG topics, including evaluating and selecting supplier engagement and data collection solutions and utilising our in-house tools.

Supplier Engagement

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Supplier Diversity: An Imperative to Build Resilient Businesses

Find out how prioritising supplier diversity can lead to increased resilience, greater social impact, and better alignment with stakeholder expectations.

Guidance

Scope 3 & Supplier Engagement Playbook

Understanding the environmental impact of your business not only consists of monitoring your own direct emissions, but also requires tracking Scope 3 emissions throughout your supply and value chains.

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Unlocking Sustainable Performance with Supplier Training & Capacity Development and Supplier Days

Supplier engagement and supplier training programmes can provide suppliers with the knowledge and tools they need to improve their sustainability practices, thus allowing companies to significantly enhance their overall environmental performance. Training and capacity development is a crucial component of supplier engagement strategies. Supplier trainings and workshops have helped clients to: In this article, we…

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The Era of U.S. Decarbonization: Why supplier engagement is the key to enabling climate transition

Supplier engagement a particularly effective tool in a sustainability strategy, helping to address Scope 3 emissions in the supply chain.

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Supply Chain Due Diligence

What is supply chain due diligence? Supply chain due diligence is the process by which an organisation investigates and evaluates each stage within their supply chain to ensure ethical and responsible sourcing practices. This may extend anywhere from 1 Tier (or step) to tens of Tiers, depending on an organisation’s complexity and geography. Historically, visibility…

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Revised Oxford Principles for Net Zero Aligned Carbon (Credits) Investment

The revised Oxford Principles is an urgent call for or Net Zero Aligned Carbon (Credits) Investment . Reduction and closing the carbon removals gap and harnessing the power of nature-based solutions.

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Activator Summit 2023 Insights

In October, we hosted our second annual Activator Summit in London.

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Guidance

Guide | Activating Scope 3 Supply Chain Engagement

This guide addresses the most common topics and considerations Anthesis hears from clients across five stages of creating a successful supplier engagement program

Guidance

Guide | Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive

The CS3D, or Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive, is a proposed European Union directive that would require companies to conduct due diligence on their supply chains to identify and mitigate potential human rights and environmental impacts.

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Driving Towards Net Zero: The Power and Importance of Supplier Engagement

SBTi, in partnership with Anthesis and other stakeholders, has released guidance for Supplier Engagement. What does it mean for your decarbonisation and supply chain initiatives?

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Activating Supplier Engagement on Scope 3 Emissions

To support organisations at all stages of the supplier engagement journey, Anthesis has put together a guide that provides an overview of the key elements needed to execute a successful supply chain engagement program on scope 3 emissions and activate suppliers to set SBTs.

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Anthesis Compliance Suite

The Anthesis cloud-based solution for effortless material compliance and conflict minerals management.

Anthesis Compliance Suite

Scope 3 & Supplier Engagement Playbook

Our Scope 3 & Supplier Engagement playbook helps buisnesses understand the environmental impact of their business not only consists of monitoring their own direct emissions, but also requires tracking Scope 3 emissions throughout supply and value chains.

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