Supplier Engagement

What We Do

Equipoise drive supplier sustainability action with structured communication campaigns and targeted capability building initiatives.

Organisations often begin sustainable procurement action with supplier engagement to understand the current level of maturity and build capability before moving to more disruptive strategies like changing suppliers.

Equipoise helps organisations design and deliver strategic supplier engagement programs that enable supplier action and capability building on key sustainability topics like; Science Based Target setting, Decarbonization, Modern Slavery and Supplier Diversity.

Benefits

  • Leverage your supply chain to achieve your sustainability objectives

  • Understand supplier maturity across key sustainability topics

  • Identify sustainability impact hotspots areas

  • Enhance relationships with suppliers

  • Reduce risks from blind spots

  • Build supply chain resilience

  • Create value and amplify positive impact through the supply chain

Approach

  • Creating the blueprint for a programme that will enable supplier action:

    • Understanding your sustainability goals, procurement policies, processes and systems

    • Assessing the ambition of current sustainability goals and benchmarking these against your competitors

    • Engaging key stakeholders to agree on the programme scope, objectives and governance

    • Segmenting suppliers based on the current understanding of sustainability maturity, potential impact and criticality

    • Analysis of segments to prioritise engagement

    • Evaluating and selecting supplier data collection and engagement platforms

    • Agreeing on an implementation strategy and timeline

  • With the programme scope defined, Equipoise supports the design of the engagement process, materials and technology, including:

    • Setting up supplier communication plans for the programme including launch conferences or webinars

    • Developing training materials for suppliers that can be delivered through workshops or hosted in a digital engagement platform

    • Supporting the setup of supplier sustainability rating platforms to collect data

    • Conceptualising supplier dashboards that enable internal stakeholders to track supplier progress and evaluate overall Programme performance

    • Defining supplier incentives and enforcement mechanisms

  • As each phase of the designed programme is ready to launch Equipoise supports the delivery of the programme. This can include:

    • Running supplier communications campaigns

    • Delivering supplier training and capacity-building sessions

    • Managing supplier sustainability RFI’s (requests for information)

    • Working directly with suppliers to improve their sustainability performance through our digital engagement platform

    • Progress tracking and validation

Technology Enablement

To scale our impact and cut your costs we leverage our digital engagement platform to enhance delivery:

Our proprietary supplier engagement platform combines sustainability playbooks, project management technology and consulting support to engage and build the capability of your supply chain.

Simply asking suppliers to manage sustainability impacts won’t drive the scale of action needed to make meaningful progress. Structured communications and capability building are required.

Contact Us

We build long-term partnerships with our clients that deliver ongoing sustainability improvements by embedding sustainable procurement excellence. If you would like to know more about how that might work for your organisation then please get in touch: