SUPPLIER ESG DISCLOSURE SUPPORT
We close the gap between what your business actually does and what each framework needs to see to score it.
A complete, credible, submission-ready response across EcoVadis, CDP, SBTi, SMETA, and the S&P Global CSA.
Why It Matters
Your Customer Sent You
An ESG Questionnaire.
Your Response Determines
Your Revenue.
Enterprise buyers now require suppliers to complete sustainability disclosures including EcoVadis assessments, CDP questionnaires, SMETA self-assessments, and S&P CSA responses. These are procurement requirements. Poor scores trigger supplier reviews. Missing deadlines results in exclusion from RFPs. Inadequate responses classify your business as high-risk.
Most suppliers treat these as compliance checklists and submit minimal responses. The result is scores that underperform their actual sustainability performance and lost revenue opportunities.
Your largest customers are using these frameworks to evaluate and tier their supply base. Strong responses secure preferred supplier status and protect revenue. Weak responses result in deprioritization regardless of product quality or price.
130,000+
COMPANIES ON ECOVADIS
Over 130,000 companies in 180 countries are rated on EcoVadis. Enterprise buyers use these scores to tier suppliers, with poor scores triggering exclusion from preferred vendor programs.
23,000+
CDP SUPPLY CHAIN MEMBERS
Over 23,000 organizations request CDP disclosure from suppliers. The 2026 response window opens June 15, following questionnaire release in April 2026.
Revenue Risk
PROCUREMENT CONSEQUENCES
Suppliers without credible ESG disclosure face revenue exposure—from lost contract renewals to exclusion from growth opportunities with sustainability-focused buyers.
CLIMATE & ENVIRONMENTAL DISCLOSURE
CDP
Carbon Disclosure Project
What It Is
CDP is the global platform for corporate environmental disclosure — used by over 23,000 companies to report on climate change, water security, and forests. Scores are letter-graded from A to D- and are publicly accessible to investors, procurement managers, and analysts. Suppliers receive CDP requests because their enterprise customers are required to invite key supply chain partners to disclose as part of their own submission.
Why It Matters
A missing CDP score or a D-level response creates a visible, auditable gap inside your customer's own climate report. With California's SB 253 beginning to phase in Scope 3 reporting requirements, enterprise clients face direct regulatory pressure to account for supply chain emissions. Your CDP response is becoming a compliance data point for your customers — not a voluntary gesture.
Score improvements in CDP are not built during the response window. They are built in the months before it. The companies that engage expert support now are the ones whose scores reflect that investment when it matters.
⚡ CDP 2026 — Key Dates
WEEK OF APRIL 20, 2026
WEEK OF JUNE 15, 2026
PREPARATION WINDOW
CDP releases the official questionnaire and guidance materials for the 2026 disclosure cycle.
The response window opens. Suppliers invited by customers may begin submitting their disclosures.
Now through June 2026. Companies that engage expert support now are the ones whose scores reflect that investment when the window opens.
EMISSIONS REDUCTION TARGETS
SBTi
Science Based Targets initiative
What It Is
The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) validates company greenhouse gas reduction targets as consistent with the Paris Agreement's 1.5°C limit. Enterprise buyers seeking to reduce their own Scope 3 emissions are increasingly requiring suppliers to demonstrate science-aligned reduction commitments. For those buyers, an SBTi commitment or validated target is evidence that decarbonization is a managed business priority — not a stated intention.
Why It Matters
There is a meaningful difference between an SBTi commitment and validated SBTi targets — and enterprise procurement teams have become sophisticated enough to distinguish between them. A commitment satisfies some near-term criteria. Validated targets satisfy the higher standard that leading buyers are beginning to require as a condition of supplier qualification. Suppliers without a credible, documented reduction trajectory are increasingly flagged as transition risks in their customers' own ESG disclosures.
Committing to SBTi before an organization has the data infrastructure and operational capacity to follow through creates more reputational risk than it resolves. The right starting point matters as much as the commitment itself.
What EcoVantage Support Delivers
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Eligibility and Readiness Assessment
We assess your readiness and identify the right entry point and timeline — so your commitment reflects a credible path to validation, not just a public declaration.
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Baseline Emissions Inventory
Validated targets require a credible emissions baseline across Scopes 1, 2, and 3. We support the development of a methodology-aligned inventory that will withstand SBTi's review process.
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Target Development and Validation Support
We help you design near-term and long-term reduction targets that meet SBTi's criteria and are grounded in what your business can realistically achieve — then support the formal submission for validation.
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Implementation Planning
A validated target without an implementation plan is a commitment without substance. We develop the internal roadmap that demonstrates — to customers and to the SBTi — that your targets reflect operational intent.
ETHICAL TRADE & LABOR STANDARDS
SMETA / Sedex SAQ
Sedex SMETA & Self-Assessment Questionnaire
What It Is
The SMETA Self-Assessment Questionnaire (SAQ) is the first structured evaluation in most enterprise supplier due diligence processes — covering labor standards, health and safety, environmental practices, and business ethics across Sedex's platform of over 85,000 companies in 180 countries. A completed and credible SAQ is a prerequisite for supplier onboarding in many global supply chains. It is also visible to every customer who requests it.
Why It Matters
The SAQ is not a formality. It is a scored evaluation, and gaps in your responses — incomplete labor policies, undocumented health and safety procedures, missing environmental records — do not go unnoticed. A poorly completed SAQ can halt an onboarding process, trigger a full SMETA audit, or signal that the oversight structures a customer requires in their supply chain do not exist within your organization. In competitive supplier environments, that signal rarely gets a second chance.
For businesses without dedicated compliance or HR functions, the SMETA SAQ covers ground that is genuinely complex. An SAQ that reveals policy gaps gives a customer grounds to pause the relationship while remediation is completed. That pause is often permanent.
What EcoVantage Support Delivers
The same four step process applies across all frameworks. Gap analysis, documentation, response, and improvement roadmap.
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1. SAQ Completion Guidance
We work through the questionnaire with your team, translating the requirements across labor, health and safety, environmental, and ethics categories into accurate, evidenced responses that reflect how your business actually operates.
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2. Policy and Documentation Gap Analysis
We identify where you have substantive practices but insufficient documentation — and where genuine policy gaps exist that require remediation before your response is submitted.
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3. SMETA Audit Preparation
Where an SAQ response leads to an audit request, we provide targeted preparation support across all four SMETA pillars: Labor, Health & Safety, Environment, and Business Ethics.
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4. Sedex Platform Management
We support ongoing record-keeping, data sharing configuration, and annual review processes — so your Sedex profile remains current and does not become a liability between disclosure cycles.
ESG PERFORMANCE & INVESTOR BENCHMARKING
S&P Global CSA
S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment
What It Is
The S&P Global Corporate Sustainability Assessment (CSA) is the methodology behind the Dow Jones Sustainability Indices (DJSI) — one of the most referenced ESG benchmarks used by institutional investors globally. The CSA evaluates companies across economic, environmental, and social dimensions, producing scores and percentile rankings that inform index inclusion, investor screening, and the ESG supplier assessments of publicly traded enterprise clients.
Why It Matters
The CSA's influence extends beyond the companies formally invited to participate. Enterprise clients that are DJSI-indexed or rated by institutional investors face direct pressure to demonstrate supply chain ESG alignment. Suppliers begin to receive disclosure requests structured around CSA criteria — sometimes as the questionnaire itself, sometimes embedded within broader supplier assessments that follow the same logic. A weak or absent CSA position is a visible signal about ESG quality to the investors and procurement analysts who reference it.
CSA scores improve through substantive organizational change, not questionnaire strategy. The companies that perform well are the ones that have built the governance, data, and management systems the CSA rewards — and documented them in a form the assessment can verify.
What EcoVantage Support Delivers
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Questionnaire Navigation and Response Structuring
The CSA covers a wide range of criteria across three dimensions. We assess your performance against the criteria weighted most heavily in your industry and structure your responses to reflect your actual ESG position accurately.
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Alignment to CSA Scoring Standards
The CSA scores documented, quantified performance — not narrative claims. We align your existing sustainability data, management systems, and governance structures to the evidentiary standards that CSA scoring requires.
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Industry Positioning Analysis
We assess where your current or projected score places you relative to your sector peers — and what that positioning communicates to the investors and procurement decision-makers who reference CSA data.
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Long-Term ESG Performance Development
We identify the governance, policy, and performance improvements that will drive credible, verifiable score progression over time — and build the roadmap to get there.
How We Work
We Do Not Submit Responses.
We Build the Case Behind Them.
ESG disclosure frameworks reward documentation quality, data governance, and substantiated claims. The work that determines your score happens before you answer a single question. That is where we focus — and it is what separates a submission that earns a strong score from one that simply meets the deadline.
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Review and Baseline Assessment
We begin with the specific request your customer has made — reviewed alongside your current documentation, policies, and performance data to establish an honest picture of where you stand before any response strategy is developed.
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Submission and Forward Planning
Submission is a milestone, not a conclusion. We document what was achieved, what constrained the score, and what would drive meaningful improvement in the next cycle — so each successive submission builds on the last.
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Evidence Gap Analysis
Most companies have more scoreable evidence than they realize. We identify what exists within your organization, locate what is missing, and determine what can credibly be developed within your timeline — before a single answer is written.
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Response Development
We work alongside your team to build, refine, and validate your response against the scoring logic of the framework in question. Every answer is substantiated. Nothing is submitted until we are confident it accurately reflects your organization.
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Your score is determined before you answer the first question. Start there.
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