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Supply Chain Awards Submission

1. Award Submission 2. DWP Metrics

🏆 Supply chain Award Submission

Part 1: Qualitative Overview

Applicant & Company Details

1. Company Snapshot

Question: Provide a brief overview of your company.

Guidance: Include headquarters, geographic presence, size, core products/services, markets served, and role within the value chain. Focus on clarity and relevance; avoid marketing language.
2. Strategic Context & Business Relevance

Question: Why is your company strategically relevant within its sector today?

Guidance: Explain positioning, industry challenges addressed, competitive advantages, strategic importance to customers and supply chains, and market trends influencing your business.
3. Business Drivers & Transformation Motivation

Question: What business challenges or opportunities led you to adopt your current approach?

Guidance: Describe efficiency improvements, regulatory requirements, risk mitigation, cost optimisation, customer demand, or innovation strategy. Focus on business rationale.
4. Transformation Journey

Question: Describe your company’s journey and key milestones.

Guidance: Provide baseline situation, key decisions or turning points, major implementation phases, and measurable progress achieved. Show evolution over time.
5. Key Differentiators (Executive Summary)

Question: What are the three main reasons your company should be selected as winner?

Guidance: Provide a concise summary highlighting unique strengths, operational achievements, strategic relevance, and future potential.
6: Leadership Perspective

Question: Provide a short quote or perspective from a senior leader.

Guidance: Include a brief leadership statement explaining long-term transformation, innovation, or resilience perspective.

Climate Change

MetricCriteriaResponseScoreExpected Evidence
CC.1 Fuel and energy consumption Does the company regularly monitor its fuel and energy consumption? 0 Annual summary of on-site gas, oil and electricity usage, and fuel for company vehicles, based on supplier invoices.
CC.2 Renewable Electricity >Is >80% of purchased electricity generated from renewable sources as defined by the GHGP scope 2 standard regarding purchased electricity? 0 Independently verified certificate of compliance from the company's electricity supplier.
CC.3 Scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint Has the company calculated its scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint as defined by the GHGP standard? 0 Annual Scope 1 & 2 footprint
Has the company published its scope 1 and 2 carbon footprint on its website? 0 url of relevant page
CC.4 Value chain emissions Has the company identified the source of its most significant value chain emissions? 0 Assessment report with rationale for selections
CC.5 Scope 3 carbon footprint Has the company calculated its scope 3 carbon footprint as defined by the GHGP scope 3 standard? 0 Annual Scope 3 footprint
Has the company published its scope 3 carbon footprint on its website? 0 url of relevant pageL
CC.6 Scope 1 and 2 reduction target Has the company published a target to reduce its scope 1 and 2 emissions by >=2.5% pa.? 0 url of relevant page
CC.7 Scope 3 reduction target Has the company published a target to reduce its most significant scope 3 emissions? 0 url of relevant page
CC.8 Delivery performance Is the company demonstrating year on year reductions in its scope 1, 2 and scope 3 business travel carbon emissions? 0 Annual carbon footprints according to the GHGP, broken down by Scopes 1, 2 and business travel, since the baseline year.
Climate Change Total Score: 0

Circular Economy (CE)

MetricCriteriaResponseScoreExpected Evidence
CE.1 Circular economy principlesHas the company aligned its design and operational processes towards designing products, services and business models in line with sustainable circular economy principles? 0Internal procedures or guidelines
CE.2 Published ambitionHas the company published its high-level circularity goals, strategy and key activities? 0URL of relevant page
CE.3 Reduced inputsHas the company reduced total input of resources (materials, energy, water...) over time? 0Internal procedures and/or metrics
CE.4 Increased renewable and recycled resourcesHas the company increased the relative input of renewable and recycled resources over time? 0Evidence may include, for example, internal (or public) sustainability report, impact report, procedures with tracking of metrics on corresponding parameters.
CE.5 Increased value retentionHas the company increased value retention and decreased waste across the value chain over time? 0Internal procedures and/or metrics
CE.6 Extended durabilityHas the company extended the utility and durability of products and materials over time? 0Internal procedures and/or metrics
CE.7 Extended lifecyclesHas the company increased the reuse, repair refurbishment, recycling and thus the lifecycles of products and materials over time? 0Internal procedures and/or metrics
CE.8 Published targets and performanceDoes the company regularly publish quantified circularity targets and progress status for the above metrics? 0url of relevant page
CE Total Score: 0

Supply Chain (SC)

MetricCriteriaResponseScoreExpected Evidence
SC.1 Listing critical SuppliersHas the company created a list of the top ~15 - 25 Tier 1 Suppliers (Medium Enterprise) or ~ 5 - 10 (Small Enterprise)? 0Internal Tier 1 Supplier Listing Report
SC.2 Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) Has the company created and published a standardised Code of Conduct/Policies and Procedures for Responsible Business Conduct (RBC) that identifies sustainability topics? 0Evidence of suppliers contacted and evidence of required compliance procedures
Has the company requested a copy of the RBC from the Tier 1 Suppliers defined in SC.1? (i.e. are Suppliers expected to meet these same set of standards?) 0Evidence of suppliers contacted and evidence of required compliance procedures.
SC.3 Sustainable Supply Chain Best PracticeDoes the company meet regularly with top Suppliers in an effort to build a collaborative partnership? 0Meeting Agenda and/or notes Written goals from the relationship. Documented next steps and action plans for improvements Documented risk mitigation
SC.4 Purchasing decision criteriaDoes the company have a sourcing process that includes sustainability factors as part of the decision criteria? Factors could include a published RBC, publicised participation in 2030 programs (DwP, net zero, or other), ethical behaviour, supply chain reputation, quality degradation, and discovered violations (human rights, labour management, or other). 0Purchasing policy decision factors notated
SC.5 Raising awarenessDoes the company have an individual or team responsible for sustainability and responsible business practices? 0Defined responsibilities and goals for the assigned person or team
Does the company involve the individual or team responsible for sustainability and responsible business practices in the sourcing process with Suppliers and the sales process with Customers? 0Proposals from suppliers and to customers that demonstrate consideration for responsible business practices and sustainability (i.e. policy statements, sustainability goals, and/or achievements)
SC Total Score: 0

Digital Trust Responsibility (DTR)

MetricCriteriaResponseScoreExpected Evidence
DTR.1 Comprehensive privacy frameworks Does the company have systems and oversight in place to adopt the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union), or equivalent, as a universal standard comprehensive privacy framework? 0 Provide references to operating processes such as manuals, guides, and procedures or related documents that document how data privacy and security principles are integrated into relevant operations.
DTR.2 Code of Conduct Does the company have a written and publicly available Code of Conduct that guides employee and partner/supplier behaviour regarding the ethical use and application of technology? 0 Provide a link to a written Code of Conduct and highlight the sections that specifically address its policies/practices associated with the ethical use and application of technology.
DTR.3 Safety and Security Does the company have a formal process to continuously review and update its security practices to address emerging threats? 0 Provide documentation that demonstrates policies, systems and training in place to:-
• protect unauthorized access to user data both from unauthorized internal sources (employees) as well as external sources (suppliers and third parties)
And,
• a formal process to continuously review and update security practices to address emerging threats.
DTR.4 Report and remedy breaches Does the company have a policy to inform customers of breaches in a timely manner, describe corrective action measures, and keep users updated on remediation measures? 0 Provide evidence of a policy and a program to inform customers of breaches in a timely manner, to describe corrective action measures and to keep users updated on remediation measures. Also provide evidence of:-
• a policy and a program to provide remedy appropriate to the breach.
• evidence can include examples of how breaches and remedy have been handled.
DTR.5 False and offensive content Does the company have a formal process to identify and remove false and offensive content? (Where apprpriate, parents/guardians should have the ability to control children's/seniors' use of technology online and elsewhere.) 0 Provide evidence of:-
• a policy and a program to identify and remove false and offensive content supplied or hosted by the company.
• Evidence could include written policies as well as specific personnel tasked with monitoring for and removing of misleading or false content.
• where appropriate, a policy and a program to enable parents/guardians to ensure a safe and productive experience for children or seniors.
DTR Total Score: 0

Digital Inclusion (DI)

Metric Criteria Response Score Expected Evidence
DI.1 Support for the disabled Does the company have techniques and tools that people with disabilities can use to interact with the Web, such as browser settings, text-to-speech, voice recognition? 0 Links from the company’s website (s) demonstrating techniques and tools that people with disabilities to interact with the Web.
DI.2 Web Content Accessibility Guidelines Does the company follow the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) to improve accessibility of websites or apps? 0 Documents in line with the WCAG explaining how the company's web content is more accessible to people with disabilities.
DI.3 Workforce: female representation Is at least 35% of your total workforce female? 0 HR data showing a sufficient representation of female employees (in line with the percentage expressed in the metrics).
DI.4 Workforce: minorities/different ethnicities and disabled representation Is at least 6% of your total workforce represented by minorities/different ethnicities and disabled people? 0 HR data showing a sufficient representation of employees from minority groups, different ethnicities and disabled (in line with the percentage expressed in the metrics).
DI Total Score: 0