Businesses are taking more interest in environmental practices within their supply chains for various reasons such as:

• To protect brands from adverse media coverage.
• Pressure from employees and other stakeholders.
• As part of a wider corporate social responsibility initiative.

This creates a need to gather, assess and manage information from suppliers. A number of challenges arise

Challenges

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

QADEX has the answer

The 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 a decision to proceed has been made, QADEX will do all set-up including.

• Loading all your suppliers onto the system
• Agree 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 required. 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 liase with your suppliers, on your behalf, informing them that an on line information request will be arriving soon. Thereafter, QADEX will provide on-going supplier support helping them with any queries about the completion process.
• Prompt and chase outstanding suppliers - based on a pre-agreed timescale agreed with you.

You receive Quality Assured information from suppliers

• QADEX review all completed information requests to check key information supplied.
• Risk assessment scores and exception reports available by supplier.

You will be able to view and manage all your suppliers, send requests to all or selected suppliers as well as having access to a comprehensive reporting suite. Within the reporting suite you will be able to see which suppliers are outstanding, who has completed, how far each supplier is through their request! etc.

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.