Supplier Engagement

Create trusted relationships across your supply chain and drive tangible business benefits through collaboration, communication, and transparency.

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Businesses are accountable to protect people and the planet across their entire value chain, not only within their own operations.

This underscores the importance of companies having full visibility into their value chain, and a strategy to influence environmental and social changes within each supply tier. Today, engaging suppliers extends beyond price, quality and service considerations, and includes understanding their sustainability, human rights and compliance efforts. To achieve this visibility and accelerate progress towards your sustainability goals, a supplier engagement program is an essential first step.

Whether your focus is meeting your SBTi targets, developing a scope 3 strategy to reduce emissions, managing nature risks, or implementing a Human Rights and Environmental Supply Chain Due Diligence Program, our team of sustainability and supply chain experts can support you in developing and implementing a comprehensive Supplier Engagement strategy and program. Our approach allows you to collaborate with your supply chain to drive impact, operate more proactively, and ensure compliance with new and impending regulations.

Supplier Engagement Services

To remain competitive and adapt to changing business and regulatory landscapes, companies must go beyond merely asking suppliers to align with their sustainability goals. Anthesis’ Supplier Engagement experts can support you across all aspects of your Supplier Engagement program, from strategy development to implementation and management. Our goal is to create a tailored program that meets the needs of your company and is based on industry best practices. Whether you are creating your first supplier code of conduct, developing a strategy to align with sustainability goals, implementing technology to support data collection, or curating a tailored program to support individual suppliers, Anthesis will be your partner of choice.

Our Approach to Supplier Engagement

Collaboration – We work closely with you, your suppliers and industry peers to set sustainability goals, develop action plans and implement best practices that align with your environmental and social objectives.

Transparency – Data sharing is the foundation to a sustainable future. Streamlining the process for your suppliers to easily share relevant data promotes informed decision making and accountability.

Capacity Building – Empower your suppliers by providing them access to education and resources to improve their sustainability performance, enhance their understanding of sustainability issues and adopt relevant technologies and best practices.

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Supply Chain Risk Assessments – Identify, analyse, prioritise and manage material social and environmental risks across your supply chain. This approach allows you to concentrate your efforts and allocate resources more effectively.

Innovate – Work with suppliers to innovate and develop sustainable solutions, products and processes that reduce environmental impacts, enhance resource efficiency, and create positive impacts across the supply chain.

Integrate & Incentivise – Embed Supplier Engagement into your procurement processes to drive supplier performance.

Improve – Establish mechanisms to monitor, evaluate and track progress, address challenges and continuously improve your overall supply chain sustainability.

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Case Studies

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Driving Sustainability in Tech Through Supplier Engagement

The Situation A large media and technology company with a complex, global, and disparate supplier based has engaged Anthesis for support in setting and achieving a net zero commitment with a near-term supplier engagement target. Anthesis has maintained an ongoing partnership with this organisation since 2016, expanding into supply chain work to drive progress toward…

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Developing Scope 3 Science-based Targets for Target

The Situation Building on its operational scope 1 and 2 emissions reduction goals, Target needed to develop its first full scope 3 emissions inventory, evaluate and then set a science-based target (SBT) to fulfil the requirements of its SBTi commitment. Anthesis was selected as the consulting partner to guide Target through this process leading to an industry…

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Achieving Responsible Sourcing Certification for Steadman’s

The Situation A. Steadman and Son (Steadman’s), part of the leading specialist building distributor SIG Trading Ltd, is a major supplier of steel cladding and roofing to the construction and agricultural industries. With the focus on responsible sourcing gaining momentum in the construction sector, Stedman’s wanted to be able to assure its customers that Steadman’s…

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Developing Science-based Targets for Equinix

The Situation Equinix is the world’s digital infrastructure company, operating 200+ data centres across the globe and providing interconnections to all the key clouds and networks that businesses need to scale their digital transformations. Equinix has a strong history of sustainability and was the first data centre company to set a 100% renewable energy goal…

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Bioenergy Supplier Engagement and Deforestation Risk Assessment

The Situation Anthesis supported an American Food and Beverage provider in their efforts toward reducing its exposure to key risks within its bioenergy supply chain. We conducted a forest risk assessment to help identify and manage potential risks associated with deforestation, environmental degradation, and social issues. The risk assessment helped to inform the development of…

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A Decarbonisation Roadmap to Achieve Net Zero in the Apparel Industry

The Situation A multinational premium apparel retailer with a global supplier base committed to a net zero pathway (90% reduction in emissions by 2050) through the UN Fashion Industry Charter for Climate Action (FICCA). The company commissioned Anthesis to develop a decarbonisation roadmap of priority GHG emission reduction levers available in its journey towards net…

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The Foundations of a Successful Supplier Engagement Strategy

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Capacity Building Solutions

E-Learning

Access to online training that can be tailored to your company and provided to your entire organisation and value chain.

Supplier Days

We all work best when we fully understand our customer’s objectives, vision, and goals for the future. Supplier Days allow you to align your supplier with your supply chain sustainability goals and ensure that they are enabled with the right tools and knowledge to meet your evolving needs.

Tailored Training

Webinars, 1:1 and live workshops for suppliers that are fine tuned to address your expectations, fill your supplier’s knowledge gaps, and upskill suppliers in topics of interest (ex: traceability, renewable energy procurement, etc)

Scope 3 & Supplier Engagement Guide

Discover actionable strategies to reduce Scope 3 emissions and collaborate more effectively with your suppliers. Build a strong foundation for sustainable practices that optimize environmental impact across your entire value chain.

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