Supply chain environmental audit

Do you want to know what and where your environmental impacts are across your supply chain in order to develop a more comprehensive sustainability strategy and action plan? Understanding the full extent of your environmental footprint is essential for creating effective and targeted sustainability initiatives. By identifying key impact areas within your supply chain, you can prioritise actions that drive the most significant environmental benefits.

What is a supply chain audit?

A supply chain audit analyses your goods and services for their impact on climate and nature. The analysis will calculate total and relative carbon emissions, land area, and biodiversity organised by supplier and category. If your supply chain is global this analysis can present results by geography and/or business markets. This analysis can be used to help prioritise where efforts should be focused on reducing impact and where procurement decisions can be leveraged. 

​The benefits of a supply chain audit include:​

  • ​Prioritisation for focusing reduction efforts

  • Increased supply chain transparency 

  • Helping build partnerships with suppliers

What is involved in a supply chain audit?

  • Our sustainability specialist will scope with you the available data that can be used for analysis

  • We will use expenditure by supplier and/or quantity or weight data by item to calculate results

Integration of Supply Chain Audit & LCA

  • Comprehensive Insight: To effectively manage Scope 3 emissions, companies can enhance their sustainability efforts by integrating Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs) with supply chain audits. Supply chain audits deliver precise data on emissions from specific supply chain activities, while LCAs provide an overarching view of emissions throughout the entire life cycle of a product or service.

  • Enhanced Data Utilisation: The detailed insights gained from supply chain audits can significantly improve the accuracy and completeness of LCAs. By incorporating specific emissions data from suppliers and logistical processes, companies ensure that all relevant emissions are captured. This integrated approach allows for more informed decision-making, enabling targeted strategies that effectively reduce Scope 3 emissions across the supply chain.

What will you get from working with Pilio?

  • A report and presentation to share with key decision-makers 

  • Recommendations for prioritisation and improving analysis 

  • Suggested next steps for reducing impacts in your supply chain

  • Access to Pilio's supply chain tools for ongoing measurement and management of procurement environmental impacts

    Pilio has performed supply chain analyses for Blenheim Palace, Hampshire Cultural Trust, Lush, Pukka, and South Lakeland District Council.