What is the value of THESIS to my company, as a supplier?

THESIS is a holistic, science-based transparency and performance management tool rooted in science and stakeholder collaboration that assesses environmental and social hotspots at the global product category level. Learn more about THESIS and what consumer goods products are covered by THESIS.

As a supplier, THESIS enhances your awareness of your company's current state and your supply chain to advance sustainability within your company.

THESIS's value to your company is:

Reducing Survey Fatigue and Building Your Brand Reputation:

• Reducing survey fatigue by allowing suppliers to share the same global information with multiple retailer buyers.
• Supports aligning on retailer sustainability initiatives so you can be seen as a leader by your retail buyers.

Building your awareness into your company and your supply chains risks and impacts:

• Helps you identify operational efficiency and cost savings for activities crucial to your business.
• Supports existing reporting efforts while offering deeper insights and analytics relevant to your organization.
• Gaining science-based resources to create clarity on the most pressing sustainability impacts for your products.
• Resources to understand supply chain sustainability and the sustainability of consumer products.
• Assesses environmental and social hotspots at the global product category level.
• Benchmarks your performance against other suppliers of the same product categories.
• Gaining science-based resources to create clarity on the most pressing sustainability impacts for your products.

Providing valuable insights and data to inform your decision making, focus your efforts, and be equipped for action. Valuable resources and insights you get from THESIS include:

• Sustainability Snapshots: Overviews of the issues and opportunities for each assessment. These are ideal for internal communication when collecting data, as well as communicating results to external audiences.
• Assessment Scorecards - Product category level assessment scorecards include:
  • Assessment level and KPI-level scores and performance 
  • Overall assessment and KPI-level peer rankings
• Action Recommendations: Tailored General and KPI-level Action Recommendations to inform your next steps.
• 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. 
• KPI Guidance: KPI Guidance for your assessments includes helpful background information and information the most relevant certification, standards, and tools. 
• 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. 

Learn more about the value of THESIS here