Step 1: Understanding Your THESIS Results

Understanding Your THESIS Results is the first step in using THESIS to drive value for your organization. Review and understand the resources and analytics available on THESIS on Sphera Supply Chain Sustainability, formerly known as SupplyShift. Identifying your strengths and data gaps will help you prioritize and increase the likelihood of improved scores next time you complete your assessments.

Steps to understand your THESIS results include:

• Review your THESIS Assessment Scorecards
• Leverage your resources available on THESIS on Sphera Supply Chain Sustainability
• Identify patterns and cluster results

As you understand your THESIS results, begin to cluster your results so you can identify patterns and plan to efficiently make progress. You can cluster by:

• Broader impact and issues: For example, which KPIs address climate or deforestation goals?

• How they're related to your sustainability goals

• By supply chain stages: which do you have more control to influence?

• By mechanism you’ll use to address them

Review your THESIS assessment scorecards:

Once THESIS assessments are submitted, your Scorecard is available by navigating to the assessment on THESIS on Sphera Supply Chain Sustainability, and selecting the “Scorecard” tab at the top of the screen. Scorecards remain available to you to come back to anytime.

Components of your THESIS Scorecard:

• Assessment level scores and performance
• Assessment level peer rankings
• General Action Recommendations
• KPI-level scores and performance
• KPI-level peer rankings
• KPI-level Action Recommendations based on your KPI answers

While viewing your scorecards, consider the following:

• Overall assessment level and KPI-level scores and performance
• Overall assessment and KPI-level peer rankings. These will help you determine if you are leading, lagging, or on-par with your peer suppliers.
• General and KPI-level Action Recommendations based on your KPI answers. These are tailored to your scores.
• Did you have any “Unable to determine” responses?
• Were there relevant assessments you didn’t complete?
• Are there recurring hotspots across products and assessments?
• What KPIs had gaps or incomplete data?

Leverage your resources available on THESIS on Sphera Supply Chain Sustainability, formerly known as SupplyShift:

• Published Analytics: allows you to visualize your THESIS results with diagrams so you can easily see the areas that need improvement and focus your attention where it counts. Published Analytics are based on all THESIS data so you can gauge your performance against the industry standard.
• Improvement Opportunities: Found within your KPI PDFs and the KPI excel on your assessment cover page, improvement opportunities are practices that improve a product's environmental and/or social performance relevant to one or more hotspot, additional issue, and/or stakeholder concern.
• KPI Guidance: KPI Guidance for your assessments includes helpful background information and information the most relevant certification, standards, and tools
• Sustainability Snapshots: Found on your assessment cover page, they provide overviews of the issues and opportunities for each product category. These are ideal for internal communication when collecting data, as well as communicating results to external audiences