Global protection from ESG risk
Protect your business from Environmental, Social and Governance risk with Achilles' unrivalled supplier risk assessment, in-person supplier auditing, ESG ratings and reporting services.
THE CHALLENGE
Compliance with supply chain regulation
In today’s market, where organisations are under immense scrutiny, strong supply chain management isn’t only vital to ensuring quality, value and compliance, it also protects from punitive fines and catastrophic reputational damage. Achilles rigorous ESG supplier assessment and rating system provides unrivalled supply chain transparency, demonstrable end-to-end supply chain improvement and confident ESG reporting.
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THE ACHILLES PROCESS
Achilles offers best protection from ESG risk and drives supply chain improvement
Only Achilles has the people, processes, systems, experience and global scale to work with customers at every stage of the journey to identify ESG risk, improve ESG performance and comply with regulatory obligations and stakeholder expectations.
Identify your ESG risks
Achilles rigorous supplier assessment enables you to fully understand your global supply chain risk.
Drive ESG improvement
Desk top and in-person audits enable you to improve supply chain performance and better protect from supply chain risks.
Demonstrate ESG compliance
Our rigorous process enables you to clearly demonstrate your steps to compliance and beyond to all stakeholders.
50 million
According to ILO´s latest estimates, there are nearly 50 million people living in modern slavery of which almost 28 million are in forced labour.
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HOW IT WORKS
A complete end-to-end sustainable supply chain solution
Achilles provides a complete sustainable supply chain management programme that enables organisations to confidently report and disclosure ESG status and improvements with confidence in any market and to any stakeholder group.
We collect and analyse data from a wide range of primary and secondary sources to ensure you see not only what has happened in the past but, more importantly, where your risks might lie in the future. You can also add your own ratings from you and view ratings of other buyers across our network to provide a more comprehensive understanding. Our comprehensive evaluation is the most comprehensive in the market and includes ESG, Financial and Health and Safety risk to give you maximum supply chain protection and confidence.
Achilles undertakes unparalleled validation of supply chain information and, uniquely, also provides world-class desktop and in-person audit services to enable you to go deeper into your supply chain and ensure you are fully able to meet your own organisational standards, all relevant ESG and supply chain regulations and investor expectations.
At Achilles, we strongly believe that ESG should and can never be a “one and done” process. We continuously work across your supply chain to keep data up to date, monitor their ESG performance and provide you with ongoing protection from supply chain risk.
Our processes have been continuously refined over more than 30 years of supporting international clients, aligned to industry regulations and standardised models to enable the continuous improvement of your supply chain.
The Achilles platform makes comprehensive supply chain information and analytics available at the touch of a button to support all your reporting requirements. For customers that want to go further, we also offer bespoke Reporting services to meet specific regulatory, investor and other stakeholder requirements.
PEOPLE, PLANET AND PROFIT
ESG reporting best practice
The structure and sheer scale of today’s supply chains mean that ESG issues and their causes can be extremely hard to identify, understand and eradicate. For more than 30 years, Achilles has worked to enable the world’s largest and most complex organisations to truly understand supply chain issues and provide unrivalled protection from ESG risks.
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