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Sustainable. At every turn.

Countless products and services are transported everyday through a global network of supply chains that connect a company’s inputs to its outputs. And yet, all too often the sustainability data about those products and services gets left behind.

Many companies striving to become more sustainable are limited to monitoring and measuring the sustainability of their own business operations, leaving them unable to comprehend, much less communicate, the real story about their products—the story that more and more customers are demanding to know.

Source Intelligence™ bridges this gap in the supply chain. We collect data about the environmental impacts of goods and services throughout their life-cycles. We help companies manage those impacts in order to create, protect and grow long-term environmental, social and economic value for its stakeholders.

We deliver supply chain sustainability as a continuous flow of services to meet our clients' ever-changing sustainability needs. Whatever the complexity, we have the technology, resources, creativity and expertise to increase supply chain sustainability, at every turn.

Solutions

Our platform supports a variety of data collection techniques and solutions. As part of your subscription, we offer three Source Intelligence™ solutions: Source Gateway, SourceAlert and Product Footprinting. As complementary solutions, each provides a unique depth of detail from a distinct source of information. This dynamic platform delivers Sustainability Analytics that enables users to measure and analyze data for the purpose of understanding and optimizing their sustainability efforts. Learn more about our Platform

SourceAlert

Are you aware of any environmental risks in your supply chain that might impact your brand? As a manufacturer or retailer, your company's sustainability activities and those of each supplier within your supply chain are interlinked. Yet, monitoring your entire supply chain for interruptions can be exhaustive and resource-intensive. Source Intelligence™ does the work for you, providing valuable and timely alerts about sustainability activities in your supply chain so you can have the peace of mind to focus on your business.

How?

As an automatic capability of our service platform, Source Intelligence™ is designed to search public databases, such as government records and agencies, for all information, specific or associative, about your supply chain. A weighting is applied to the information, which affects your suppliers’ overall SourceAlert rating. This rating enables you to manage your risk by alerting you to activities within your supply chain such as product recalls, environmental violations or reports of labor infractions. You can pre-filter an alert or change its rating depending on how the alert impacts your business.

SourceAlert examples:

• Product recall alerts 
• Environmental violations
• Foreign corrupt practices actions
• Reports of labor infractions
• Illegally harvested resources, such as wood and minerals

Source Gateway

Do you know what steps your suppliers have taken to become sustainable? What about your suppliers' suppliers? As a manufacturer or retailer, your company's sustainability efforts and those of each supplier in your supply chain are interlinked. Source 44 engages your entire supply chain to help you achieve cradle-to-gate supply chain transparency.

How?

Our analysts work with you to develop a supplier survey to assess high-level supply chain sustainability. You can use standard questions from our set of templates or develop unique ones, and then choose ratings that will be applied to each question depending on how it impacts your business. Once the survey is defined, use Source Intelligence™ to publish the survey and invite all your suppliers to participate. Through powerful features and assessment tools, Source Intelligence™ delivers Supplier Analytics from the survey responses that rank suppliers by environmental impact and intensity so you can prioritize for engagement. (Information can be verified through supporting documentation when applicable.)

These powerful features include:

• Benchmark results, allowing you to compare a supplier against other suppliers.
• Track results over time, allowing you to conduct a trend analysis to see how a supplier may be improving its sustainability efforts.
• Compare Sustainability on different levels within the platform—corporation, business unit, buyer, supplier, and product—allowing you to drive sustainability through the core of the business and the supply chain.

Product Footprinting

Do you know how much carbon and waste is produced when your products are manufactured and distributed? Or how much water is used in the creation or delivery of your products? Are you sure there are no restricted substances or materials of concern residing within your products? Source Intelligence will unlock your supply chain by providing proprietary data specific to your products, materials and facilities.

How?

Our team of scientists and analysts rigorously assess the Sustainability—carbon, water and waste—of our clients’ products, materials and operations. Our clients access this in-depth, complex data through our Source Intelligence™ platform with easy-to-use visualization tools aimed at uncovering inefficiencies and cost-saving opportunities.

These visualization tools include:

• Treemaps, which help the user quickly visualize the carbon, water and waste footprints of their products and facilities.
• Tracer maps, which geographically trace all major elements and movements within a product’s supply chain.
• Opportunity Analysis, which identifies the largest resource usage and provides specific steps to improve for the greatest ROI.
• Footprint Data Sheets™, which enable you to present our concise, verifiable and auditable findings using our proprietary data sheets. Find out more about Footprint Data Sheets™ here.