Supply Chain Sustainability
Understanding your supply chain and collaborating with supply chain partners is more crucial than ever to reduce risk, build resilience, and achieve sustainability goals.
At 3R Sustainability, we empower clients to integrate sustainability into their purchasing practices and supply chain strategies through a comprehensive suite of services. Whether you want to establish a sustainable procurement or supplier engagement program or are determining how to tackle ambitious targets that require supplier capacity and partnerships, 3R can work with you to achieve your goals.
How we can help
Your supply chain is an opportunity
The suppliers you choose to do business with reflect the values of your company and determine whether or not you can achieve the goals you’ve established. We help clients strengthen collaboration with supply chain partners, building joint capacity for growth, innovation, and resilience while minimizing impact.
Our Services
Program Development and Governance
3R can develop a holistic sustainable procurement, supplier engagement, or supply chain-focused sustainability program that is aligned with your organization’s sustainability goals and objectives.
Policy Development
Our experts work closely with your team to develop sustainable procurement and supplier engagement policies, such as supplier due diligence policies, supplier codes of conduct, and sustainability clauses for supplier contracts and RFPs.
Supplier Engagement and Collaboration
3R can partner with you to determine how to prioritize your suppliers for engagement, set goals, develop roadmaps, build supplier capacity, and establish forums such as Sustainability Councils to drive progress together. Our approach also includes designing and delivering supplier training modules that address key sustainability practices, compliance requirements, and enable performance improvement, ensuring your supply chain partners are well-equipped to drive lasting change.
Supply Chain Decarbonization
As 70-90% of a company’s emissions are scope 3 emissions (indirect emissions from their value chain), an effective decarbonization strategy with your supply base is crucial to achieving your carbon emission reduction goals. 3R provides a suite of services to support supplier decarbonization, including product Life Cycle Analyses, Product Carbon Footprints, development of decarbonization targets and roadmaps, and supplier capacity building strategies and implementation.
Tracking Supplier Progress
3R can support you in developing tools to track the performance of your suppliers and support continuous improvement, including dashboards, scorecards, grievance mechanisms, assessments, or audit plans. Additionally, we design tailored training programs for buyers at your company, equipping them with the skills to collect, analyze, and leverage sustainability data in purchasing decisions. This empowers your procurement teams to make balanced and informed decisions, incentivize supplier performance, and enhance supply chain resilience through strategic, data-driven engagement.
Tool Selection and Implementation
3R helps organizations select and implement sustainable procurement and supplier assessment tools like EcoVadis or other custom solutions to drive measurable sustainability performance across the supply chain. We offer comprehensive support from tool evaluation through deployment, ensuring alignment with your sustainability goals and enabling your organization to leverage data for enhanced value creation.
Delivering business value through effective supplier engagement
Supply chains are the backbone of a business, and supplier relationships will make that backbone stronger. We position your engagement approach to be holistic and effective, modeling solutions after our 7-step supplier engagement framework:
Supply Chain Resilience and Risk Management: Proactive supplier collaboration helps identify and mitigate risks early, strengthening operational continuity and long-term resilience.
Strengthens Trust and Long-term Value: Transparent and consistent engagement builds supplier loyalty, enhances brand credibility, and fosters shared innovation for lasting impact.
Drives Sustainability Progress: Engaging suppliers enables companies to achieve goals and reduce risk in areas such as GHG emissions, resource use, and human rights beyond their direct operations.
3R Webinar on Supplier Engagement
In this webinar, Fraiser Opel and Joshua Knupp of 3R and Lena Zotos from EcoVadis break down a simple 7-step supplier engagement framework, explaining how to effectively engage your supply base to reduce risk and achieve goals and how EcoVadis can be used to support this work.
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