Customers

Since its launch in 2007 more that 40 leading Companies have selected Ecovadis SP™ to manage sustainability risks in their supply chain and improve the performance of their suppliers, in more than 85 countries.

Some of those companies had already set up a structured Sustainable Procurement program several years ago, but realized that a better solution was required in order to deploy sustainability indicators on thousands of their suppliers. Other were at the beginning of their Sustainable Procurement initiative and identified EcoVadis as a way to jump start their program, and quickly access simple and reliable indicators on their suppliers. All are sharing our vision, that Sustainability is a key part of the procurement function and a major performance driver for their organisation.

Some of the companies that have chosen EcoVadis solution are :

Accor “With a high number of suppliers in more than 90 countries, Sustainable Procurement is a great lever for improvement of services we bring to our customers. We have adopted a continuous improvement plan including a new “Sustainable Development Charter”, Sustainable Development criteria in our call for tenders, Sustainable Development oriented selection criterions… We are willing to go even further and will offer our support to our suppliers and subcontractors in their Sustainable Development improvement process.The EcoVadis platform appears as an excellent solution to strengthen our approach.” Isabelle Lauzon, Chief of Purchasing office at Accor Group

Air Liquide “Air Liquide has the ambition to become the undisputed global leader in the Industrial Gas business. Being a responsible company is one of the pillars of this strategy. Procurement brings its contribution by making sure that we measure the sustainable development performance of our key supplier. EcoVadis brings us the objective measurement of supplier’s CSR performance and the ability to develop tangible action plans.” Jan Keller - CPO Air Liquide

Alcan Packaging "As a leader in cosmetics packaging, Sustainable Development is strategic for us as for our clients. EcoVadis CSR supplier assessment solution allows us to integrate environmental and social criterias into our purchasing processes." Laurent-David CHARBIT - Alcan Global Beauty Sector - Purchasing & Supply Chain Director

Alcatel Lucent "Integrating the EcoVadis solution into our CSR management approach is among our top priorities for 2009. This solution provides 3rd party input and analysis, presents assessment results according to internationally recognized indicators, enables improved communication of results to buyers and enables our teams to concentrate on developing improvement plans with suppliers. By the end of 2010, we aim to assess the CSR practices of all of our key and preferred suppliers, related either to direct or indirect spend, using the EcoVadis rating solution." Alcatel - Lucent Corporate Responsibility Report 2008

Alstom "Alstom has set a responsible purchasing policy up, respecting the commitments taken toward our clients. We decided to evaluate our supply chain regarding its environmental and social preformances, according to a 5 levels ladder. In 2008, we decided to extend the EcoVadis database which is a reliable tool to measure and improve the CSR performance of our suppliers. We have been convinced by the simplicity of implementation and by the EcoVadis ability to provide specific answers regarding Alstom core businesses." Stéphane Le Corre ALSTOM - Group Strategy Director  - 01.2009

Atos Origin "The Global Sustainable Purchasing Policy, major component of our new program Harmony, allows our buyers to adopt a complete approach of Sustainable Development. This consists in introducing environmental, social and ethical considerations in each stage of our supply chain : suppliers have now to suscribe to Atos Origin Responsible Purchasing Charter principles. " Sophie Chambon - Sustainable Project Manager

AXA "I am convinced that Sustainable Development will deeply transform Purchasing professionals roles. Since 2006 Axa has initiated a structured policy, and we measure today how Sustainable Procurement can renew the Buyer-Supplier Dialogue. Since 2008, EcoVadis is helping us to deploy this initiative, providing us a reliable and independent assessment of our suppliers CSR performance." Alain Page-Lécuyer - Chief Procurement Officer

Banca Monte dei Paschi di Siena "The “Value for money” sourcing of products and services in respect of environmental and social criteria is a “must” for a looking forward supply chain organizations, as well as for modern enterprises first. Working with suppliers to build up a real sustainable way to manage and develop business is also a significant part of our responsibility. Those CSR strategic pillars are definitely in the DNA of Montepaschi Group (the oldest bank in the world) and its supply chain management. Ecovadis solution enables us to pursue in that committment." Luca Guzzabocca – Director of Procurement, Logistics, HSE and Security

Bel Group “With the help of the EcoVadis company, the Group also launched an effort to assess the environmental and social responsibility performance of its suppliers. An initial portfolio of 120 suppliers, constituting a representative sample in terms of purchasing, size and geographical footprint, were polled. The high response rate showed that awareness is already growing. Another positive development was that none of the suppliers received an eliminatory rating for unacceptable practices. Bel’s goal is to evaluate its 350 strategic suppliers by 2012.” Business and Corporate Responsibility Report 2009

Bouygues Construction "We wished to go further in helping our suppliers and our subcontractors to make them improve their Sustainable Development performances. The EcoVadis mutualized platform appeared as the best solution to do that." Jeanne Glorian - Group Responsible Purchasing Coordinator

Bouygues Telecom "We decided to ask EcoVadis to elaborate specific questionnaires to evaluate our suppliers performances according to our criterias. Nowadays, I think it is indispensable to lean on expert external solution providers as EcoVadis to manage that kind of evaluations so that CSR expertise and analysis objectivity would be garanteed." Sustainable procurement manager - Bouygues Telecom

Centrica "Our social and environmental impacts extend beyond our direct operations to the goods and services we buy from our suppliers. These impacts can present risks to our reputation and continuity of supply which we must manage accordingly. The project to develop a non-financial risk tool delivered an initial project. In 2011, we'll be looking to develop it into an online based system. Through this system we aim to track supplier risk on an ongoing basis and introduce a regular audit programme." Centrica CR report 2010

CNP Assurances "CSR is core to CNP strategy and we have initiated a structured sustainable procurement strategy since 2003. In 2009 we decided to go further and we have decided to join the EcoVadis platform in order to assess our suppliers CSR performance. This project has been a success with a 100% adoption rate by our suppliers and a particularly objective and rigorous analysis of their environemental, social and ethical practices." Juan Crespo-Sala - Head of procurement

Johnson & Johnson “In January 2011, we launched Healthy Future 2015, which defines our priorities and goals for the next five years. One of the 7 goals is linked to Procurement : we aim at partnering with suppliers who embrace sustainability by joining with suppliers who demonstrate a similar commitment to ours through their practices, goal-setting and the positive impacts they seek to achieve.” Johnson & Johnson CSR Report 2011

Lafarge "Lafarge is very serious about Sustainability and has set up clear goals outlined in our « Sustainability Ambitions 2012 » program. Lafarge seeks supply chain partners that share our goals with respect to Sustainability, and since 2008 we have initiated a dialogue with some of our key partners on this theme.  In 2009 we selected EcoVadis to assess the CSR performance of some of our suppliers throughout 12 countries. The EcoVadis solution allowed us to access to clear and actionable scorecards on our suppliers environmental, health & safety, and social performance, while ensuring a high adoption from suppliers and internal teams." Ted Zerafa - VP Purchasing North America

Lagardère Active "As an international media group, Lagardère Active has special CSR duties. Its radio, magazine, web and TV brands reach large audiences and can raise awareness to sustainable development issues within the large public. As a company aiming at improving its internal processes, we found EcoVadis to be an excellent partner to include CSR ratings in our risk management and improve our sustainable procurement practices." Olivier Dumoulin, Chief Procurement Officer

Renault “The development of Sustainable Procurement policies corresponds to a deep commitment that is taken over at each level of the company. We have set up a “Supplier CSR” charter together with Nissan, and added CSR clauses to our contracts. But we wanted to go even deeper by engaging our suppliers in the continuous improvement of their sustainability performance. The EcoVadis platform appears as an excellent solution to reinforce this initiative with our suppliers but also with our operational buyers." Stéphane Lasfargue, Co-Innovation and Supplier Sustainable Development Manager

Shell “A strong relationship is essential between energy companies and their partners, contractors and suppliers. Sharing lessons on how to improve business delivery through better environmental and social performance will be central to meeting the challenges ahead as the world moves towards a low-carbon energy future. More than 400,000 contractor staff and a huge number of suppliers work for Shell. Our major contracts include requirements to follow our Business Principles, Code of Conduct and HSSE standards.” Shell CSR report 2009

SNCF "The year 2011 represents a year of consolidation for us. Therefore, we will move up a gear on all aspects of our sustainable procurement policy. [...] In parallel, we will work in partnership with EcoVadis on the evaluation of the CSR performance of our suppliers. Our goal over the next three years: to assess 500 companies." Olivier Menuet, Managing Director and Responsible Sustainable Procurement

TF1 “Without EcoVadis, we would still be in the stone age. In order to be efficient in CSR rating, we found it decisive for us to rely on a third party platform.” Michel Gras, Head of procurement

Umicore "Umicore sees Sustainable development as a way to manage its activities. But also as a way to recognise our past responsability. We had a heavy ecological inheritance but during the last decade, we decided to handle this issue in a most proactive way. The most important thing is that for Umicore, Sustainable development represents a strategic opportunity : 50% of our turnover is now realised thanks to Umicore environmental activities." Thomas Leysen - CEO Umicore (L'Echo 20.10.2007)