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Contact usStandard products like adhesive tapes, computers, garbage bags, office chairs, and protective gloves are bought millions of times every year. Often with the choice between hundreds, even thousands of similar looking items at every transaction.
And while - in digital catalogs - buyers can sort and filter the products by size, color, price, delivery time and more, one vital aspect has been missing: the sustainability of each product.
The world needs companies and public authorities to procure sustainable standard products. But it is far too costly for them to elaborate sustainability benchmarks for standard products on their own.
So we made it our mission to find a solution.
Now, by integrating ESG Score into their procurement processes, buyers can immediately identify and compare the sustainability of standard products.
Our product scoring system follows state-of-the-art science. It is also regularly reviewed by leading researchers and institutes.
Every two weeks publishing of updated category rankings & product scores
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The Science behind ESG ScoreAs a customer, everyone in your company can start using our intuitive web interface right away to identify best-in-class sustainable products. If they want to, they can also look deeper into scoring criteria and data.
If you purchase from catalogs hosted in a procurement system or from punchout catalogs, ESG Score can be integrated in these catalogs. The ESG Score is then shown directly on search results and products without needing to exit the system.
Our data is provided via standard exchange formats such as BMEcat, and we are happy to support you and your solution provider integrating them.
Our category-specific leaderboards always show current best-in-class products. And the browser extension brings these insights right into the shop you are browsing.
With the ESG Score in your catalog, you can sort and filter products by sustainability — making it as comparable as the price.
ESG raw data is available via API from the ESG Datahub. Use it to make and document informed purchasing decisions in your own systems.
ESG Score allows you to send requests for information for products not yet covered. After data provision through the manufacturer, ESG Scores are calculated and the products show up in the rankings.
The Systemordnung — our public rulebook — defines how scores are produced: criteria, data classes and a correction channel. Your procurement decisions become traceable and auditable.
With ESG Score data in your systems, you can monitor your level of sustainable purchasing. Just like you monitor the average spend per item or other key performance indicators.
Affirmative manufacturer self-declarations require a cited source or document. Rating profiles link the evidence right at the data point, so you can verify any claim yourself.
ESG Score is easy to integrate and data are updated every two weeks. Your entire organisation will always be able to identify best-in-class sustainable products in your catalogs.
ESG Score not only empowers sustainable procurement in your organisation. With the browser extension — included in your plan — your employees see scores right where they shop, at work and privately.
Our ecolabel directory shows the certified products on record for a standard, filterable by brand owner. And you can compare the labels themselves — issuer, version, product categories and Type I status.
Set up a tender-related information request with product category and due date, and let suppliers submit sustainability data against qualified criteria — ready for your award decision.
ESG Score data in your catalog system enable you to gain insight on category price sensitivities and optimize budget allocation.
In various CFO positions, I have repeatedly found that you can only manage what you measure. This also applies to sustainable procurement. It cannot be managed until a standardized measure is available that shows how sustainable the available products are. The ESG Score closes this gap. With the ESG Score, the sustainability of products can now be compared and evaluated together with other performance characteristics. This makes it possible to professionally organize the sustainable procurement of standard products.
Thomas KnoblochCorporate Head of Sustainability Reporting and Controlling, Weltweit führender Mischkonzern
The enterprise customers of our wescale Marketplace of Opportunities in particular have been working intensively on the question of how they can procure sustainably in a process-efficient manner for some time. It was also a major corporate customer that drew our attention to the ESG Score. With the help of the ESG Score, shoppers can now see at a glance in wescale's digital catalogs how sustainable the available products are. This works in a similar way to the Nutrisore, which allows me to see at a glance on the supermarket shelf how different healthy foods are. Users of wescale can even sort the products by sustainability with the help of the ESG score.
Wolfgang ReinhardtChief Product Officer der WPS Management GmbH
Contracting authorities are required to procure sustainably. Given the enormous variety of products that need to be procured, the lack of product-specific sustainability criteria and data is often the main obstacle in day-to-day procurement practice. The ESG Score now offers the opportunity to create simple comparability that is comprehensible to third parties using an objective and verifiable evaluation system. This makes it possible to procure sustainable standard products simply and in compliance with procurement law.
Prof. Dr. Michael EßigFull Professor & Chair Purchasing & Supply Management Universität der Bundeswehr München
As a nationwide purchasing service provider for the public sector, we have long been looking for ways to automatically process masses of article master data in such a way that transparency, control and comparability, taking into account the variety of sustainability labels, are easily possible for buyers in the administration. By integrating the ESG Score into our purchasing solution for all our customers since mid-June 2025, we have achieved our goal. In fact, it seems almost magical when masses of catalog data are "scored" automatically as part of periodic updates.
Monika SchmidtGründerin und Aufsichtsrätin der TEK-SERVICE AG
The ESG Score generates real added value and progress in the area of quality labels. It is not a purely sectoral quality mark, but rather identifies the sustainability of products across all categories. The ESG Score also classifies the sustainability of products on a scale from 0 to 100, so that, as with price, it can be weighed up together with other performance characteristics. Widespread use of the ESG score is in the public interest and should be supported in my view
Norbert PortzLeiter des Vergabedezernats, Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund a.D.
All indirect purchasers have been waiting for the ESG Score: it is finally possible to see the ESG footprint for standardized, indirect products! In addition to price and performance parameters, ESG criteria can now be included in the decision. Only with this score is sustainable procurement even possible in this high-transaction segment!
Thomas ZachauFounder of the purchasing consultancy H&Z
Evaluating the sustainability of products can be extremely time-consuming and demanding. This is why seals of approval are often used, but there are many seals and the individual seals often only address sub-areas of sustainability. The ESG Score offers probably the most comprehensive assessment of products according to environmental, social and governance aspects and is as easy to use as the food traffic light. With the ESG Score label in digital catalogs, customers can see at a glance how good the ESG performance of the product is compared to others. In this way - and this brings real social progress - it also promotes competition on the supplier side with regard to ESG criteria.
Ronald BogaschewskyHolder of the Chair of Business Administration and Industrial Management at the University of Würzburg and member of the advisory board of the administration and procurement network VuBN
In various CFO positions, I have repeatedly found that you can only manage what you measure. This also applies to sustainable procurement. It cannot be managed until a standardized measure is available that shows how sustainable the available products are. The ESG Score closes this gap. With the ESG Score, the sustainability of products can now be compared and evaluated together with other performance characteristics. This makes it possible to professionally organize the sustainable procurement of standard products.
Thomas KnoblochCorporate Head of Sustainability Reporting and Controlling, Weltweit führender Mischkonzern
The enterprise customers of our wescale Marketplace of Opportunities in particular have been working intensively on the question of how they can procure sustainably in a process-efficient manner for some time. It was also a major corporate customer that drew our attention to the ESG Score. With the help of the ESG Score, shoppers can now see at a glance in wescale's digital catalogs how sustainable the available products are. This works in a similar way to the Nutrisore, which allows me to see at a glance on the supermarket shelf how different healthy foods are. Users of wescale can even sort the products by sustainability with the help of the ESG score.
Wolfgang ReinhardtChief Product Officer der WPS Management GmbH
Contracting authorities are required to procure sustainably. Given the enormous variety of products that need to be procured, the lack of product-specific sustainability criteria and data is often the main obstacle in day-to-day procurement practice. The ESG Score now offers the opportunity to create simple comparability that is comprehensible to third parties using an objective and verifiable evaluation system. This makes it possible to procure sustainable standard products simply and in compliance with procurement law.
Prof. Dr. Michael EßigFull Professor & Chair Purchasing & Supply Management Universität der Bundeswehr München
As a nationwide purchasing service provider for the public sector, we have long been looking for ways to automatically process masses of article master data in such a way that transparency, control and comparability, taking into account the variety of sustainability labels, are easily possible for buyers in the administration. By integrating the ESG Score into our purchasing solution for all our customers since mid-June 2025, we have achieved our goal. In fact, it seems almost magical when masses of catalog data are "scored" automatically as part of periodic updates.
Monika SchmidtGründerin und Aufsichtsrätin der TEK-SERVICE AG
The ESG Score generates real added value and progress in the area of quality labels. It is not a purely sectoral quality mark, but rather identifies the sustainability of products across all categories. The ESG Score also classifies the sustainability of products on a scale from 0 to 100, so that, as with price, it can be weighed up together with other performance characteristics. Widespread use of the ESG score is in the public interest and should be supported in my view
Norbert PortzLeiter des Vergabedezernats, Deutscher Städte- und Gemeindebund a.D.
All indirect purchasers have been waiting for the ESG Score: it is finally possible to see the ESG footprint for standardized, indirect products! In addition to price and performance parameters, ESG criteria can now be included in the decision. Only with this score is sustainable procurement even possible in this high-transaction segment!
Thomas ZachauFounder of the purchasing consultancy H&Z
Evaluating the sustainability of products can be extremely time-consuming and demanding. This is why seals of approval are often used, but there are many seals and the individual seals often only address sub-areas of sustainability. The ESG Score offers probably the most comprehensive assessment of products according to environmental, social and governance aspects and is as easy to use as the food traffic light. With the ESG Score label in digital catalogs, customers can see at a glance how good the ESG performance of the product is compared to others. In this way - and this brings real social progress - it also promotes competition on the supplier side with regard to ESG criteria.
Ronald BogaschewskyHolder of the Chair of Business Administration and Industrial Management at the University of Würzburg and member of the advisory board of the administration and procurement network VuBN
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