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.

Take a look at our 'Procuring the Future' PDF [1.16 MB]

Snapshot 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 use. It provides helpful advice on what you need to do to progress your strategy in each area. 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.

Benchmark Tool (under development)
This is designed to benchmark your practice in detail against your peers. The tool contains a number of detailed questions requiring a high degree of knowledge of your organisation, it will probably require consultation with a number of people to complete. Your responses are compared to a set of standards in the system and a report is automatically generated together with anonymous comparison with your peers. This tool is expected to be ready autumn 2007.

Support
Thanks to support from Defra, we are able to provide telephone support to clients using these tools free of charge. Please call Eleni 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