The global leader in sustainability ratings is recognized for its innovative, large-scale deployment of AI to accelerate responsible procurement.
NEW YORK, PARIS – 17 DECEMBER 2025 – EcoVadis, the global standard for resilient, sustainable supply chains, today announced it has won Microsoft’s Local Partner Award in the highly competitive AI Transformation - Scale category. This distinction recognizes partners who have demonstrated an exceptional ability to innovate, accelerate the adoption of Microsoft solutions, transform industry usage, and amplify the Microsoft ecosystem.
Sophia Katrenko, VP AI/ML and Antoine Martin-Regniault, Global Partnership Manager at EcoVadis (center), receiving the award from Corine De Bilbao, CEO of Microsoft France (left) and Diarmid Thomson, Managing Director - Microsoft Global Enterprise Sales Asia (right)
"EcoVadis' commitment, expertise, and measurable impact in key areas of our digital transformation have successfully embodied what Microsoft values most: vision, execution, and impact," said Deborah Benguigui, Senior ISV Partner Development Manager at Microsoft.
Transforming Responsible Procurement with AI
Historically, procurement teams spent substantial time manually processing large volumes of supplier sustainability data. In response, EcoVadis leveraged Azure AI to develop a groundbreaking solution that streamlines supplier relationship management and provides buyers with actionable sustainability intelligence.
The resulting multilingual AI Assistant for procurement teams dramatically boosts efficiency, improves decision-making, and fully integrates sustainability into procurement workflows. The solution synthesizes complex supplier scorecards, generates insights, proposes targeted recommendations, and instantly answers complex sustainability questions.
The Key Benefit: Increased productivity and speed - reducing the time required for manual data analysis, which allows procurement teams to make faster, more strategic decisions.
A Testament to Long-Standing Partnership
"EcoVadis has leveraged Microsoft Azure’s cloud and AI tools to enhance sustainability intelligence for years. We are deeply honored to receive this distinction and are excited to continue working together on further advancing AI innovation in procurement," said Sophia Katrenko, VP AI/ML at EcoVadis.
Key Features of the EcoVadis Multilingual AI Assistant:
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Interactive Inquiries: Buyers can engage conversationally with the AI Assistant to obtain insights on a supplier’s sustainability performance over time, receive tailored recommendations for improvement, benchmark performance across their network, and inquire about specific topics like biodiversity or carbon reduction commitments.
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Multilingual Capabilities: Leveraging proprietary EcoVadis data sources and the Azure OpenAI Service, the assistant supports multiple languages, ensuring seamless global reach and accessibility.
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Enhanced Strategic Productivity: The tool significantly enhances supplier relationship management, enabling procurement teams to move from data processing to strategic decision-making.
"EcoVadis has taken on the challenge of industrializing AI by deploying large-scale AI solutions to transform responsible procurement management. We are proud to collaborate with EcoVadis, a long-standing partner and leader in sustainability, and to see our innovations contribute to sustainable development," commented Deborah Benguigui at Microsoft. "Together, we are proving that AI can accelerate sustainability on a global scale."
Since 2016, EcoVadis has closely collaborated with the Azure teams, evolving its capabilities with Azure Machine Learning to improve scalability and traceability—from decision intelligence to the use of Natural Language Processing (NLP) solutions across its solution suite. This partnership ensures continuous innovation to better support client goals and drive customer value.
To find out more about AI at EcoVadis, visit: ecovadis.com/ai
To learn more about the collaboration with Microsoft, visit:
https://www.microsoft.com/en/customers/story/23886-ecovadis-azure-open-ai-service
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