Businesses are now taking much more interest in environmental practices within their supply chains as they:

• Seek to protect brands from adverse media coverage.
• Respond to pressure from employees and other stakeholders.
• Embrace a wider corporate social responsibility initiative.

This greener commitment creates the need to gather, assess and manage information from their suppliers. However, in doing so, businesses often encounter challenges such as:

• Ambiguity about what information to collect and how to go about it.
• The information required is not available within current business systems.
• Suppliers need assistance and support to gather and provide information.
• Requirements are liable to change over time.

QADEX has the answer

Our extensive track record of gathering, assessing and managing information from food supply chains can be used to conduct environmental audits of supply chains.

QADEX will manage all set-up

Once you have decided to proceed, QADEX will handle all set-up including.

• Loading all your suppliers onto the system
• Agreeing what information is to be gathered from suppliers and set-up requirements.
• Working with you to plan the roll out
• Sharing best practices with you to maximise outcomes.

Once your account is live, training will be delivered to introduce your team to the features of the system and to agree any customisation. You will then be provided with your own access to a secure on-line system which is straight forward, intuitive and easy to use. 

QADEX manage all aspects of ensuring supplier compliance

• The QADEX support team will liaise with your suppliers, on your behalf, informing them that an on line information request will be arriving soon. After that, QADEX will provide on-going supplier support helping them with any queries about the completion process.
• We will chase outstanding suppliers - based on a pre-agreed timescale.

You receive Quality Assured information from suppliers

• QADEX reviews all completed information requests to check key information supplied.
• We also provide you with risk assessment scores and exception reports by supplier.
• You will be able to view and manage all your suppliers, send requests to all or selected suppliers as well as gaining access to a comprehensive reporting suite. Within the reporting suite you will be able to see which suppliers’ requests are outstanding, who has completed and how far each supplier is through their request.

As a result:

• You will save between 40% and 75% of the cost of managing environmental audits using alternative systems.
• The quality and consistency of supplier information will be improved.