An unexpected risk of COVID-19: Canceled supplier audits

As Pete Rau, VP of Enablement & Solution Consulting at ESG-ratings provider EcoVadis, points out, maintaining firm focus on sustainability strategies — regardless of regulatory requirements —...

Reports of ESG’s death are greatly exaggerated. If anything, it’s hit a growth spurt as new regulations come online: 99% of the Fortune 500 published some form of ESG data last year. Workiva...

Pete Rau helps drive EcoVadis’ mission to enable sustainable action from insight in his role as VP of Enablement and Solution Consulting. His background in sustainability and supply chains has...

In this week’s episode, I had the privilege of talking to Julia Salant from EcoVadis, where we tackled the increasingly essential role of technology in scaling up sustainable practices within...

BeyondNetZero Managing Director Rhea Hamilton speaks with Frédéric Trinel, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of EcoVadis, about building what has become a leading sustainability rating system from the ground...

Giving sustainability practices a prime spot on the company’s procurement agenda helps reduce costs and improve brand reputation and stakeholder relationships. A recent report from Accenture and...

BeyondNetZero Managing Director Rhea Hamilton speaks with Frédéric Trinel, Co-Founder and Co-CEO of EcoVadis, about building what has become a leading sustainability rating system from the ground...

Although the Environmental Protection Agency reports 90 percent of organizations’ greenhouse gas emissions come from their supply chains, driving decarbonization at scale remains a challenge...

The Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement (HARP) is an EcoVadis-powered sector initiative by a group of international hospitality companies and their key Global Procurement...

Expo City Dubai Partners with EcoVadis to Assess Sustainability Risks and Improve Performance of its Supply Chain with Sustainability Ratings and intelligence

For several years now, Spend Matters has been collecting and publishing a series of articles about procurement, supply and services trends for the year ahead from expert tech and service providers...

Corporate sustainability management company EcoVadis launched the Hospitality Alliance for Responsible Procurement, or HARP, with founding members Hilton Worldwide, Marriott International,...

Scope 3 data won’t be required under the California law until 2027, while the mandate to report emissions under Scopes 1 and 2—from operations and outputs from energy use—starts in 2026. When...

Suppliers are facing increasing pressure from the buyers of their goods and services to report their environmental, social, and governance data. As corporations announce plans to be Net Zero...

Spend Matters constantly updates its understanding of the state of the procurement tech market via RFIs for our SolutionMap dataset, vendor interviews, global event attendance and product demos...

The modern supply chain is a bit of a trapeze act: complex, requiring precision and potentially devastating if things go wrong. Pete Rau of EcoVadis invites companies to return to basics — it all...

Sustainability in business has reached beyond gathering metrics and pleasing stakeholders. It’s become a mission unto itself. This sentiment was embodied in the statement that Richard Eyram, chief...

Leading supply chain sustainability platforms include EcoVadis, Sourcemap, Assent, MS Sustainability Cloud, OneTrust, Achilles & Avetta.   With sustainability now a boardroom priority because of...

Expert interviewsWhat does it take to build a billion-dollar company? What are the critical success factors for European tech? How to remain resilient in a challenging market and benefit from...

In the past year, the global economy and supply chains were tested by a series of new and existing challenges, including a rise in disruptions caused by climate change, stalled progress...