EcoVadis sustainability intelligence suite

Leading companies are working with high-performing trading partners to develop new sustainable products and revenue opportunities

Founded in 1933, Air France is a founding Member of SkyTeam Air France is always pursuing an ongoing policy focused on quality and innovation Tailoring products and services to customers’ expectations is one of the most important challenges of Air France Our efforts have led to major overhauls, such as the introduction of the New Travel Concept on long-haul flights, in particular with the new cabin layout in La Première (First Class), Affaires (Business Class), Premium Voyageur (Premium Economy) and Voyageur (Economy) cabins, along with significant changes to medium-haul flights

We chose EcoVadis because we believe that we should work with subject matter experts, because we do not have the resources in-house and because EcoVadis has made it possible for us to have a procedure, a network of suppliers and a structured method for the evaluation of suppliers It fully meets our needs and I think it can meet the needs of many companies

Atlinks is principally engaged in home and office telecommunication product designing Their customers include large consumers retail chain stores, telecom operators and distributors mainly located in Europe and Latin America

Back in 2012, one first-tier telecom operator customer requested us to fill in the questionnaire as a supplier and then a second one We soon saw the benefits of joining the EcoVadis program It is a very well-known platform for CSR evaluation and other customers were also asking to see our assessment Plus the fact that we got good results encouraged us to communicate this more widely to our customers Sustainability assessments are now part of our management system and are planned at the end of the yearly cycle of activities, programs, training, audits, awareness and reviews This has also proved very useful for our IPO because the Hong Kong Exchange market is very demanding when it comes to sustainability We had a number of initiatives in place before but EcoVadis helped us structure them and create value for our customers

Atos is a French multinational information technology (IT) service and consulting company headquartered in Bezons, France and offices worldwide It specialises in hi-tech transactional services, unified communications, cloud, big data and cybersecurity services

We at procurement have to help our sales organization with bids to our customers or clients or potential clients Certainly, we've seen recently that more clients are asking for a sustainability criteria or even an EcoVadis score within the bid package that we're putting back In the UK, we won a public sector bid The difference was the fact that we had a CSR score and a sustainability program that we could reference and that they recognized

AXA is a French multinational insurance firm headquartered in the 8th arrondissement of Paris that engages in global insurance, investment management, and other financial services

The benefit of working with EcoVadis is their expertise and their support to train our procurement colleagues and helping us to redefined our processes to understand the risks and proactively address them

The Beckers Group is a global coatings company that is focused on developing high-quality environmentally compatible paint systems With expertise based on their long history dating back over 150 years, Beckers today provides solutions to customers in 60 countries

EcoVadis is a good guideline for the suppliers to develop their processes and performance, diminishing the long term supply risk [for Becker's Group] Belron International Ltd is the world’s leading provider of vehicle glass repair and replacement (VGRR) services The company operates a network of thousands of glass replacement service centers, backed by a mobile repair fleet

For me, as a CSR director, it is very important to have this kind of tool to engage people in the strategy We send the score to the partners that ask us to be evaluated by EcoVadis, and we also give this score to the other partners who have not asked us to be evaluated This gives us an external approval, external approach of what we do, and this is something very important

We adopted the EcoVadis platform because it was one of the longest established assessment platforms with a good robust approach to assessing and reviewing performance in the sustainability area Also, we had one of our key clients who was requiring us to complete it as a supplier, and this basically gave us a really good synergy to adopt a program, which not only was satisfying our clients, but which also was helping us internally to drive sustainable thinking and embedding a sustainable approach to business within each of our organizations The thing that we really like about the EcoVadis platform is a template which each of our businesses can adopt and can use to help them for their own purposes, for their own priorities within their particular country, within their particular market and it gives them their own local ownership

Founded in 1964, Cascades offers sustainable, innovative and value-added packaging, hygiene and recovery solutions Cascades provides innovative products that customers have come to rely on, while contributing to the well-being of people, communities and the entire planet

In 2012, all the evaluations were conducted in-house and our sustainable development team looked at several companies that could support us EcoVadis was the most advanced among them and the one we decided to go for And last year, when it was time to renew our contract, we looked again at what's available in the market and decided to continue with EcoVadis One of the things we really appreciate is the support we receive from the experts who work with us to help us improve

Ciena is a networking systems, services and software company They provide solutions that help their clients create the Adaptive NetworkTM in response to the constantly changing demands of their users

The scorecard feedback is relatively easy to use and understand and includes integrated corrective actions The format highlights focus areas which is helpful when talking with buyers about a supplier’s performance

Clariant AG is a Swiss speciality chemicals company, formed in 1995 as a spin-off from Sandoz The company is focused on four business areas: care chemicals (consumer and industrial); catalysis; natural resources (oil & mining, minerals); and plastics & coatings

The key advantages and benefits of the EcoVadis methodology are that it is extremely flexible, so it can adapt to the supplier profile across industries, geographies and sizes Additionally, it not only provides a score, but it provides a basis for suppliers to drive an improvement program The suppliers are therefore able to show us and themselves how much they have improved in terms of sustainability performance

EA is a 100% employee-owned public benefit corporation that provides environmental, compliance, natural resources, and infrastructure engineering and management solutions to a wide range of public and private sector clients

It was in great interest to us as an organization to have EcoVadis come in and look at exactly what we are doing to give us some opportunities to learn what we can improve upon, as well as what we are doing well and maybe create opportunities to enhance those aspects of our program

Firmenich SA is a private Swiss company in the fragrance and flavor business It is the largest privately owned company in the field and ranks number two worldwide Firmenich has created perfumes for over 100 years and produced a number of well-known scents

EcoVadis has become a strategic tool for us and a way to structure what we do And also a way to engage our teams From a business point of view, a lot of our clients who know EcoVadis ask for EcoVadis Rating It certainly helps create a common ground with our clients as well I think we are looking forward in the future to do the same with our suppliers and to create this very interesting positive chain, from brands all the way down to farmers or suppliers in our other fields

Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher, with more than 1,800 lawyers in 20 offices in major cities throughout the United States, Europe, the Middle East and Asia, is committed to providing the highest quality legal services to its clients

“Gibson Dunn is proud to partner with EcoVadis to conduct a detailed review and action oriented assessment of the Firm’s supply chain As a thought leader in the area of ESG, Gibson Dunn is rightly held to the high standards our clients expect when managing risks and proactively responding to sustainability concerns Through our EcoVadis engagement, we are able to work collaboratively with our suppliers to ensure our supply chain appropriately aligns with Gibson Dunn’s values in sustainability ” Group PSA is a French multinational manufacturer of automobiles and motorcycles sold under the Peugeot, Citroën, DS, Opel and Vauxhall brands

It starts with the strategy we ask every buyer and every commodity to have When they have a strategy, every supplier who are part of it must already have a CSR rating This means that before any call for tenders is launched, CSR is part of it And then, of course, we keep in mind that when each buyer presents something to the whole group, they want to make a call for tenders, CSR must be in order

If you look at our vehicles, more than 90% of what they are made of is purchased

This is why we are working in the purchasing department to ensure that all the vehicles on the street are produced in a sustainable way Here we really have a very big job to do There’s also something for us in it, it's a pleasure to do that and we really feel empowered to do it to really drive the industry in that I think this is a natural thing to do