STAR Index is your one-stop solution to manage and also deliver a more sustainable and lower-risk supply chain. Through a dedicated portal, your suppliers can interact and submit key data at company, site and also product level.
STAR Index is your one stop solution to manage and also deliver a more sustainable and lower risk supply chain.
The platform enables you to gather key data and insight on complex global supply chains using pre-loaded templates. Also you can report on current and future state scenarios, therefore enabling you to plan and also defend your commitments.
Visualise these commitments through our easy to navigate user interface. You can also customise thresholds and RAG ratings, therefore putting you firmly in control.
Without Visibility there is no Accountability.
Combining our own in-house expertise with the deep and broad expert knowledge of our comprehensive global network of Partners. We provide the best subject matter and sector expertise available. Identifying and addressing areas of exposure, our consultancy partners can support you. Furthermore we support your supply chain partners with insight and knowledge. Therefore helping to build your capacity to address your own ever-moving ESG and sustainability risk profile.
The responsible use and protection of the natural environment is increasingly rising up the list of many organisations’ ESG priorities. Environmental concerns – were once merely the focus of activists, and also only widely visible in the wake of a major disaster. However they are now mainstream topics of Boardroom discussion.
Companies and investors often lack a common framework for assessing their ESG risks and opportunities.
STAR Index can also help you to develop strategies which address ESG risk across full supply chains and global operations. Therefore enabling you to respond to increased scrutiny with clarity and confidence. Also helping to avoid costly greenwashing scandals and unwanted negative headlines.
The STAR Index platform can be used to gather data which can then be used to address the requirements of many of the most advanced frameworks and industry standards – such as B-Corp certification and also the UN SDG’s.
The S in ESG is often seen as the least important when comparing the prominence of the environmental aspect of ESG. “S” refers to ‘social’ and it might be seen as the most difficult to analyse and embed in ESG strategies. Data relating to societal impact is more difficult to come by and there is also a lack of standardisation around social metrics. For many businesses S is merely a check-the-box exercise which relates to things like modern slavery statements and gender pay gap reporting.
The ‘social’ in ESG is varyingly observed in many different ways, depending on perspective and industry – labour standards, human rights, social dialogue, pay equity, workplace diversity, access to health care, racial justice, data security, industrial relations, or supply-chain issues.
The challenge for businesses is to balance the internally developed social value narrative which focusses on the value it creates for society, as opposed to data driven ESG risk assessment which often flies in the face of the ‘nice stories’ businesses share about social impact.
STAR Index can help you to develop strategies which address ESG risk across full supply chains and also global operations, enabling you to respond to increased scrutiny with clarity and confidence, therefore helping not only to avoid costly greenwashing scandals and unwanted negative headlines, but to also take back some control by enabling the measurement of social value in context.
Good governance practice is the foundation upon which ESG risk management is built, and enables progress to be evaluated.
Good governance practice contributes to successful strong stakeholder engagement and therefore directly affects profitability. Increasingly how businesses respond to regulation, legislation, voluntary codes of practice and also industry frameworks contributes to the mitigation of reputational and financial risk.
STAR Index can help you to understand the implications of regulation and legislation in relation to specific sectors, using our extensive global partner network to develop strategies which address ESG risk across full supply chains and global operations, therefore enabling you to respond to increased scrutiny with clarity and confidence, helping you to avoid costly greenwashing scandals and also any unwanted negative headlines.
The STAR Index platform can also be used to gather data which can then be used to address the requirements of many of the most advanced frameworks and industry standards – such as B-Corp certification and the UNSDG’s.
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