How to complete THESIS assessments

Using THESIS to drive value for your organization includes 3 phase:

1. Getting Started with THESIS
2. Data Collection and Completing KPIs
3. Driving value with your THESIS Results

Steps for completing THESIS assessments:

Step 1: Complete your THESIS onboarding process and purchase your THESIS License. This article includes a step-by-step. How do I purchase a THESIS license?

Step 2: Complete your assessments: Go to your Dashboard and click on an assessment to open it.

• THESIS Start and THESIS Wrap Up: These are automatically available on your dashboard.
• Product Category Assessments: These assessments are not automatically available. You self select Product Category Assessments based on the products you sell.

You can add Assessments to your THESIS Account in two ways:

• Assessment Hierarchy: During onboarding, the THESIS assessment hierarchy will walk you through selecting the THESIS assessments for the products you sell.
• From your dashboard: You can also add assessments after onboarding from your THESIS dashboard. You can find a video tutorial here.

After they're added to your account, to complete your THESIS assessments you will go through the following steps:

1. Organize your Data Collection:
   1. Identify all product types (e.g., SKUs) that fall within the product category and review the assessment product scope on the assessment cover page before preparing your answers.
   2. Identify the quantitative or qualitative attribute that each KPI is requesting.
   3. Identify and work with the manager or subject matter expert who can access and collect the required data for the KPI for all relevant SKUs/facilities/suppliers.
   4. Want information on what tools are available to support your data collection?

2. Execute your data collection and validate your data: Reach out to suppliers or contract manufacturer as needed to collect required information.
3. Calculate the answers to your KPIs: Calculate your results using the data you’ve collected.  TSC has tools and resources available in the KPI Guidance in your assessment.
   1. For qualitative attributes, you will identify the response option that is most common across the relevant SKUs/facilities/suppliers.
   2. For quantitative attributes, you will calculate a weighted average over SKUs/facilities/suppliers.
4. Complete your THESIS Assessments: Enter your answers for all KPIs in THESIS on SupplyShift
5. Use your THESIS Results to Drive Value: Review your scorecard. Find more information here on how to understand and use your THESIS results.

Completing THESIS Assessments FAQs

Why do I need executive approval to submit an assessment?

The highest-ranking sustainability executive in your organization must sign off on your organization’s completed assessment prior to submitting. This step is required for verifying that all information presented in the assessment is accurate. You will not be able to edit your responses once the assessment has been submitted.