How sustainable is your supply chain?

Action Sustainability Evaluation Tools

Welcome to Action Sustainability evaluation tools. We have a variety of tools to enable you to evaluate the sustainability of your supply chain. They are all based on the recommendations of the Sustainable Procurement Task Force report, Procuring the Future, published in June 2006 and updated using our own unique experience and academic research.

Flexible Framework Tool
This is our simplest tool. It enables somebody with good knowledge of their own organisation to perform a quick overview of their position. The tool is easy to use and takes 10-15 minutes to complete. It provides helpful advice on what you need to do to progress your strategy in each area and will help you understand more about sustainable procurement and the actions you may take to help you embed sustainable procurement in your organisation. It is a good tool to send to your suppliers in preparation for performance or evaluation meetings. The tool is relatively simplistic and intended to provide you with a brief overview rather than in-depth analysis.

Assurance Tool
This is designed to support an audit of your sustainable supply chain practice. It is designed for people with some expertise in sustainable procurement and some experience in assurance techniques. It requires a high knowledge of your operation and organisation and can be used to support interviews or workshops where a wide variety of people would contribute. The tool is based on self-assessment and requires a degree of judgement to score each question. Used in a well facilitated workshop, it should take about 2 hours to complete.

Support
Thanks to support from Defra, we are able to provide telephone support to clients using these tools free of charge. Please call Kavita on 020 7700 0008 for support. If you would like our help with consultancy or training services, please call Emma-Jane on 020 7700 0008.