EcoVadis readiness for US businesses

A named person on our team owns your file and reviews everything that leaves it. Software does a real share of the grinding underneath it — coding, matching, flagging the obvious gaps — but nothing regulated happens without a person’s judgement, and nothing here is signed or filed by an algorithm.

No — ecovadis readiness is operational work inside your books, not something submitted to IRS. Where a filing does sit downstream of it, inside esg & sustainability more broadly, that stays with your CPA or enrolled agent, never with us.

Whatever you already run. Most commonly QuickBooks, Xero, NetSuite, Sage, Zoho Books and a handful of others — we work inside your system rather than moving you onto one of our own.

A short, free read-only look at what you already have, and a written note on what we found. A scoping call decides the size of the engagement — nothing here commits you to anything.

There is no published price for ecovadis readiness — it depends on volume, how many entities are involved, and how far behind the books are. We quote after the read-only review, which is free.

EcoVadis readiness sits inside esg & sustainability, alongside CDP response preparation. Most clients end up buying the category as a whole rather than one leaf at a time, but starting narrow is fine.

No. Medals are percentile cutoffs EcoVadis recalculates against every company it assesses that year, not a fixed score anyone can promise in advance. What we do is build the evidence and questionnaire responses to the strongest state the company's actual policies, actions and results support, and flag honestly where a theme is likely to fall short.

Whoever inside your company holds administrator access to your EcoVadis platform account submits it. We draft the responses and assemble the evidence for review; the submit action, and any direct back-and-forth with an EcoVadis analyst, stays with your team.

A growing number of large buyers — retailers, OEMs, pharma and tech enterprises — run supplier sustainability programs that require a minimum EcoVadis score or medal to stay an approved vendor. It's a procurement requirement set by the customer, not a government mandate, so the assessment answers a specific buyer's policy, not a regulator.

Environment, Labor & Human Rights, Ethics, and Sustainable Procurement. Roughly 21 criteria are distributed across those four themes depending on your company's size, sector and country risk profile — a services company and a manufacturer are not assessed on the identical criteria set.

It means a strong overall score doesn't automatically earn a medal. Every one of the four themes needs at least 30 out of 100 on its own — a company that scores well on Environment and Sustainable Procurement but has never documented an Ethics policy can miss every medal tier on that one theme alone, regardless of the blended number.

It's EcoVadis's own automated scan of public news, NGO reports and other external sources, feeding into the Results pillar independent of what your company submits. A negative story about a facility or a supplier can move a score without anyone at your company entering a single data point, which is why we pre-check the same kind of sources before a submission goes in.

A published scorecard is valid for 12 months from its publication date and can be shared with any number of buyers who request it through the platform during that window — one assessment answers every customer, not one per relationship. After 12 months, the next sharing request triggers a fresh reassessment.

EcoVadis returns a corrective action plan naming the specific criteria that scored low. We turn that into a document- and evidence-level plan — what to write, certify, train on, or record — with an owner assigned inside your company for each gap, so the next assessment cycle is closing named gaps rather than starting over.

That depends entirely on the buyer's own procurement policy, which we don't set and don't have visibility into beyond what they've told you. What we control is building the strongest, most accurate evidence file the assessment window allows, and telling you plainly where the gaps are rather than promising a score we don't set.

We draft policy language against the specific EcoVadis criteria it needs to satisfy, built from decisions your leadership actually makes — we don't invent a commitment your company hasn't made. A policy document only scores well on Actions and Results if there's real evidence behind it, so writing the policy is the easy half; the file has to hold up if an analyst asks for backup.

Committed is a flat minimum-score recognition, roughly 45 out of 100, for companies that don't clear a medal's percentile cut but are demonstrably past a bare-minimum starting point. It's a real, EcoVadis-issued signal — not a consolation label — and for a first-time assessment it's often the honest, achievable target rather than Bronze.