PARIS – November 12, 2019 — EcoVadis, the world leader in business sustainability intelligence and ratings for global supply chains, announced today a deeper relationship with long-time partner Ivalua, a global spend management platform. EcoVadis’ sustainability intelligence is now available in Ivalua’s new and improved Risk Center, a central console providing an integrated and actionable view on risk.
EcoVadis and Ivalua have been partners for more than 10 years and have served multiple joint customers. The integration of EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings with Ivalua’s new Risk Center creates a powerful combination of risk-related insights for existing customers to optimize procurement decisions, improve supply chain performance and create tangible value across each touchpoint of the procure-to-pay workflow.
With direct access to EcoVadis’ sustainability ratings, scorecards and engagement tools, Ivalua customers can see exposure across four sustainability themes and 198 purchasing categories, and take the steps required to improve performance and reduce critical risks within the supply base.
“The global supply chain is a breeding ground for hidden sustainability and CSR risks. Our partnership with Ivalua enables procurement to see where they are exposed and the steps they need to take to reduce their risk,” said Pierre-Francois Thaler, Co-CEO of EcoVadis. “The integration of EcoVadis Sustainability Ratings with Ivalua Risk Center brings our mutual customers a powerful combination of insights to optimize procurement decisions, improve supply chain performance and create value.”
EcoVadis was one of the first in a growing ecosystem of external data providers linked to Ivalua’s new offering. To learn more about how EcoVadis helps organizations along their sustainable procurement journeys, please visit here.
About EcoVadis
EcoVadis is the world’s most trusted provider of business sustainability ratings, intelligence and collaborative performance improvement tools for global supply chains. Backed by a powerful technology platform and a global team of domain experts, EcoVadis’ easy-to-use and actionable sustainability scorecards provide detailed insight into environmental, social and ethical risks across 198 purchasing categories and 155 countries. Industry leaders such as Johnson & Johnson, Verizon, L’Oréal, Subway, Nestlé, Salesforce, Michelin and BASF are among the more than 55,000 businesses on the EcoVadis network, all working with a single methodology to evaluate, collaborate and improve sustainability performance in order to protect their brands, foster transparency and innovation, and accelerate growth. Learn more on ecovadis.com, Twitter or LinkedIn.
About Ivalua
Ivalua is the Procurement empowerment platform. Recognized as a Leader by Gartner and other analysts, Ivalua’s Source-to-Pay suite is leveraged by over 300 leading companies across the globe to manage over $500 Billion in direct and indirect spend. The platform’s combination of ease-of-use, depth, breadth, and flexibility ensures high employee and supplier adoption, rapid time to value and the ability to meet unique or evolving requirements, evidenced by the industry’s leading 98%+ retention rate. Realize the possibilities at www.ivalua.com. Follow us at @Ivalua.
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