Use Cases & Benefits

Simple. Sustainable. Procurement. For procurement organisations.

Benefit

See product sustainability in online shops: on a scale of 0 to 100

  • The browser extension shows the ESG Score label right on the search result and product pages of supported online shops
  • Displays leading sustainable product alternatives
  • All scoring details available at a click
ESG Score label on a shop product page
Benefit

Sort and filter products by sustainability in your own catalog system: as easily as by price

  • Integrate ESG Score data into your catalogs
  • Enable colleagues to sort and filter products by ESG Score
  • Access all scoring details via the ESG Score label with a single click and save them as an Excel file if needed
Catalog system search results sorted by ESG Score
Benefit

Sustainability assessment without doing your own research: ready-made benchmarks, straight into your records

  1. 1
    Every scored product carries a complete score profile: all data points with value, points and source — including certifications and criteria coverage
  2. 2
    The score is the ready-made benchmark: every product measured against the best of its category, built from data already on record
  3. 3
    One click puts the profile into your records as an Excel file — due diligence professionally documented, without doing your own research
Complete score profile of a rated product
Benefit

Product sustainability assessment, compliant with EmpCo and public procurement law

  • The ESG Score criteria are objectively verifiable and non-discriminatory. How they are developed and maintained is publicly laid down in the Systemordnung
  • You can group the criteria into product- and manufacturer-related requirements and metrics, and you can download all criteria along with their derivations in an Excel file
  • All criteria can be easily downloaded via Excel and can then also be used elsewhere
Scoring criteria mapped to impact areas and UN sustainability goals
Benefit

Sustainability in tenders: effortless instead of prohibitively bureaucratic

  • Set up a procedure in six guided steps: basics, manufacturer musts, product musts, award criteria, bidders, publish
  • The product category brings the qualified criteria with it — nothing has to be drafted from scratch
  • Bidders submit sustainability data in a structured way by your due date — comparable and ready for the award decision
Six-step wizard for setting up a tender procedure
Benefit

Product-neutral, non-discriminatory data collection: captured once, available to all

  1. 1
    Invite suppliers to easily and free of charge submit sustainability data for their products via self-declaration on the ESG Score platform
  2. 2
    Track the status of your Request for Information (RFI) until the due date
  3. 3
    Use the resulting data to evaluate the offered products based on selected suitability and award criteria in your cost-effectiveness assessments
  4. 4
    Benefit from unrestricted access to all product profiles from RFIs, including those from other ESG Score users
Dialog for inviting a manufacturer contact to submit sustainability data
Benefit

Every data point behind the score — via API into your own systems

  • All criteria data that feeds into the score — value, points and source for each data point, just as you see it in the score profile
  • Certification data on products and manufacturers — for labeling products in your catalogs
  • Product Carbon Footprints including documents — for your Scope 3 reports
  • Delivered via API from the ESG Datahub — straight into your catalog, ERP or analytics systems
API response with product data, licenses and certification standards
Benefit

Your procurement's sustainability level: measurable and manageable

  • Set target objectives and track how your procurement's sustainability level develops over time
  • Weight scores by spend volume — what you buy in quantity counts accordingly
  • Break the figure down by product category to see where the leverage sits
  • A defensible key figure for sustainability reporting — traceable back to every single product
Average ESG Score of procured volume over twelve months against a target line
Benefit

Transparency on sustainability-related price sensitivities

Price Sensitivity
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    Visualize the price points of products for selected product categories based on their ESG Score
  2. 2
    Identify products with a higher ESG Score at a given price to optimize sustainability within your budget
  3. 3
    Identify products with a lower price for a given ESG Score and save costs without compromising sustainability

Make sustainability as comparable as the price. For online shops & digital catalogs.

Benefit

Enable customers to sort and filter products by sustainability

  • Integrate ESG Score data
  • Delight customers with simplicity of use in sorting and filtering products by sustainability
  • Empower buyers to procure best-in-class sustainable products
Sort and Filter
Benefit

Assure assortment coverage for best-in-class sustainable products

  • Identify best-in-class sustainable products via the rankings of ESG Score
  • List these products in your assortment
  • Serve the demand for sustainable products and contribute to the transformation to a sustainable social market economy
Benefit

Enrich catalogs with sustainability data demanded by clients

  • Obtain certification data and product carbon footprints for the products in your assortment
  • Provide them to your clients and satisfy their increasing need for sustainability data
Data Flow Chart

Get your ecolabel into digital catalogs. For certifiers.

Benefit

Increase the visibility of your certified products in online shops and procurement systems

  1. 1
    Quickly and easily enter data on your certified products at www.esg-datahub.org – using market-established and proven data structures
  2. 2
    Allow manufacturers to seamlessly add product identifiers such as GTIN, EAN, UPC, and MPN on www.esg-datahub.org
  3. 3
    Benefit from the distribution of your data through state-of-the-art interfaces to online shops and procurement systems
  4. 4
    Save online shops and procurement systems the effort of obtaining your data through a proprietary connection. Save yourself the effort of maintaining a proprietary solution. Distribute your data via the ESG Datahub
Datahub for Certifiers

Boost demand for your sustainable products. For manufacturers.

Benefit

Get your best-in-class sustainable products rank high on ESG Score

  1. 1
    Sign in at www.esg-datahub.org (free of charge)
  2. 2
    Complete the data profiles on the ESG Score criteria for your best-in-class sustainable products
  3. 3
    Get rewarded with high ESG Scores and good positions in our category-specific leaderboards
Boost Demand for Your Sustainable Products
Benefit

Increase visibility of your certified products in the digital world

  1. 1
    Sign in at www.esg-datahub.org (free of charge)
  2. 2
    Get overviews of certifier data linked to your company and products
  3. 3
    Provide and maintain product identifier data (GTIN, EAN, UPC, MPN) for certified products
  4. 4
    Get these data distributed to online shops and procurement systems who can then display your certifications and use them in filters

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