Get results in weeks, not years.
Here’s how we get your supplier collaboration strategy up and running.
The Six-Step Process
Tired of difficult, time-consuming, and expensive supplier projects? Our six-step process helps you engage with suppliers and achieve the results you need.
Simple supplier collaboration in six easy steps
Our Six-Step Process breaks your challenge into manageable chunks and brings suppliers along with you. Behavioural science, change management, and our easy-to-use platform comes together as a vector for change.
Here’s how it works:
Focus on what’s important
We start your journey by focusing on what’s really important to your business. We do this by asking two simple questions:
- What matters most to your brand?
- What’s most important to your stakeholders?
We achieve this thanks to the tried and tested Materiality Matrix. If you already have one, great! We’re happy to use that as a starting point.
Set realistic and achievable goals
Successful goals take supplier readiness into account. To help you set better goals, we create unique dashboards for each issue. Then, we deploy issue-specific readiness surveys and supplier cohort mapping to:
- Target communications, information, and training activities
- Collect data from suppliers who can provide it
- Assign trackable actions to multiple supplier action plans
- Enlist supplier champions to support your efforts
This gives you the clarity and confidence you need to invest your team’s energy in the right places.
Understand your benchmark
Supplier participation is the key to meaningful benchmarks. So, we take an innovative approach to supply chain data collection:
- +80% supplier response rate guarantee in 12 weeks
- Collect data at a supplier, site, product, component, and substance level
- Bespoke and out-of-the-box questionnaires and dashboards
Our award-winning approach maximises supplier participation and improves decision-making.
Close the performance gap
The runway for demonstrating the progress of your public commitments is shorter than you think. And landing your supplier initiatives is hard when you have hundreds of suppliers and products spanning multiple categories. That’s why our approach helps you:
- Create strategic alignment between you and your suppliers
- Increase supplier participation in your strategic activities
- Develop all supplier knowledge and capabilities using incremental gains
Active and engaged suppliers will help take your business further.
Grow accountability and transparency
To boost performance, you must be clear on what you expect from suppliers, tell them how they’re doing, and help them improve. We make it easy to bring together the most important supplier metrics into one place:
- Increase the number of eyes on key business data by x10
- Unlock the expertise and passion from your entire supply base
- Have more high-value conversations by removing low-value reporting admin
This saves time, consolidates data, and reduces the likelihood that a supplier gets overlooked.
Transform suppliers into your greatest brand asset
Most supplier initiatives fail to deliver ROI due to the complexity of the supply chain. We help you identify and meet your most valuable commercial gains:
- Increase sales with data-backed product claims
- Improve brand reputation with compelling stories about your sustainability journey
- Improve the bottom line with efficiencies across the supply chain
- Increase capabilities by capturing domain expertise from your supply base
It’s not just about fixing a problem. It’s about creating a long-term strategy that continues to deliver value as you grow.
Download our new whitepaper and turn your commitments into achievements
This piece of content aims to close the gap between intention and action, by providing pragmatic steps to embed suppliers in the approach to solve your environmental and social issues. We provide:
- Exclusive data on the business significance of taking sustainability action
- Easily digestible insights into environmental and social challenges faced by brands
- Actionable steps to take
- A process-driven solution to enhance supplier collaboration
In your 30-minute discovery call, one of our team will help you unpick which issue would make a compelling pilot project. We’re happy to share pricing and timelines at this stage to help you decide whether we’re a good fit for your business.
We’ll take you through a full demo of the Supply Pilot Platform for your specific need. We’ll show you how we use the Platform for each part of the project, and how we’ll help make sure it’s a success. Invite your internal stakeholders to the demo to help bring your pilot project to life. The demo takes 1-2 hours, depending on how many people attend.
We’re by your side when it’s time to put your business case forward. If your boss is the visual type, we’ll put together a video. Is your board more interested in the numbers? We’ll arm you with the ROI.
Now you’re on board, there’s plenty to do. So why waste time? Expect your kick-off meeting within days of sign-off and your branded platform will be live within a couple of weeks.
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Ready for take-off?
The Six-Step Process was created because we believe in the power of great supplier relationships. Book your discovery call today and start your Supply Pilot journey.