Pure Strategies, a sustainability consulting firm that has been working with brands and retailers to realize meaningful environmental and social improvement, will soon be launching Pure Supply™, a new platform that provides a way to engage, educate, and execute solutions in the supply chain, empowering suppliers with clear information, guidance and support for reaching renewable energy and climate targets.
The new Pure Strategies’ Pure Supply™ platform features include:
– Online platform for greater automation and scalability
– Multiple-stage program to support and recognize a supplier journey
– Library of educational resources for each stage of supplier progress
– Expert advisory support available to facilitate supplier progress
– Standardized and streamlined assessments and data collection
– Customizable progress dashboards to track supplier performance
– The ability to manage multiple sustainability programs/issues1
Pure Supply offers two separate modules for supplier programs, with more available in the future:
1. Set/progress on science-based targets (SBTs) for climate
2. Transition to using renewable energy (with additional modules available upon request).
Empowering Suppliers to Advance Sustainability
Because supply chains represent the majority of impact for most businesses, companies need their suppliers to effectively make progress to meet their sustainability commitments. From a climate perspective, sectors with complex supply chains such as food, apparel and manufacturing have significant upstream greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. In the food sector, farm and land-related emissions can range from 60 to 90 percent of total Scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, according to Sustainalytics.
“Suppliers are critical partners in advancing corporate sustainability programs. However, companies often have a supplier base with different levels of resources and progress. As a result, coordinating a program that effectively engages multiple suppliers can be a lot of effort. Our new Pure Supply platform helps companies to manage their supply chain impacts by empowering suppliers with clear information, guidance, and support. Pure Supply helps companies to connect directly with their suppliers and communicate expectations, build capacity, collect data, and advance in critical sustainability goals.”
Tim Greiner, Pure Strategies Co-founder and Managing Director
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1The initial version of Pure Supply includes modules for suppliers to 1) set/progress on science-based targets (SBTs) for climate and 2) transition to using renewable energy (with additional modules available in the future or with custom build/project).