Ecovadis Pros and Cons

Not much I can say I like. I am not an ESG specialist, but as a small business owner I can't say that Ecovadis provides any value to us and instead is a burden.

It is easy to use - I suppose this is a positive point. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

We were forced to use Ecovadis and pay for it by one of our key enterprise customers. Ecovadis relies on this model of forcing businesses to comply with bureaucracy and pay for it to be able to maintain customers. So, their business performance is not really based on the value they provide but on how many key accounts they can get to grow the network effect.

I suppose they migh provide value to large enterprises who need to measure and comply with ESG policies, specifically in the EU space, but for small businesses it just doesn't offer any value. It is also no flexible to allow small businesses to score well. We are a small business, with a remote working arrangement, so our carbin footprint is tiny. However if you can't subit reports about your office electrical consumption and other enterprise metrics your score is reduced.

The system is also basically a documentation check. There are no physical audits or verification processes as far as we are concerned, so it is safe to assume the data they collect and measure is unreliable. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

the UX, it's quite lean, also, they save your information instatanously and you don't lose them. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

It's been an investment from me (in money and in time). I spent a lot time to fill carefully in all the information and once it's done I didn't see any outcome.

You lose time, everything is done to make you pay more and more, but you don't have any insights of what you should do to improve. Completely useless. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

There was NOTHING that we liked about Ecovadis. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Forms were not tailored to our company; Overcharged for service; when the company that required the service was sold and we no longer needed Ecovadis; we sent them a message on the day of our renewal and was told that we were required to cancel BEFORE renewal date. They threatened to send our invoice to collections if we did not pay the annual subscription for a service that we did not request or want. They are just in it for the money. Not to help customers. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Like the ease of suppliers submitting information, setting up SSE users and the clear use of improvements that clients can set suppliers Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The academy area should be free for unlimited users Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EcoVadis top sustainability performance platform that help various manufacturing sectors whether large or small scale to assess their sustainability score. It is a platform that help to search company working on the sustainability front and even share our score and of various footprints details various trading partners, and even request a score from our interested company. The platform even provides the guiding document for preparation of various documents for assessment. It provides improvement areas after each assessment and documents not assessed during the assessment. It gives virtual training sessions on various topics of sustainability. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

EcoVadis is the best sustainability rating platform and improving its criteria to be more transparent with regards to sustainability rating platform, so Solara as an organisation don’t dislike anything about EcoVadis Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-Software and platform is well developed

-It does not require lots of text writing, as the evidence comes largely in the documentation you upload

-It gives lots of examples of documents you may consider uploading, but the choice is down to the individual

-It provides areas of strength and suggested improvement areas, which really helps with action areas post assessment

-There are a whole host of resources and wide variety of information to guide you every step of the way Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

-The document library is a little clunky to use, but EcoVadis has been working on making this easier to use Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The bar is always raised higher each year so we may progress together. The pre-filled questions from previous years and document management is very helpful to help renew each year. The explanations above each question provide insights that can even give ideas to changes and improvements in our corporate citizenship projects. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

I don't appreciate some items that for me don't reflect actual committment but more reflect monetary funds. Like the importance of having had signed a given charter that requires payment. This could allow some companies to not have an authentic dedication to the subject but just throw some money. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Viohalco subsidiaries have implemented a responsible sourcing initiative with EcoVadis to improve sustainability performance across their supply chain. EcoVadis evaluates suppliers on various sustainability criteria such as environment, labour and human rights, ethics, and responsible procurement. The results of the evaluations provide Viohalco subsidiaries with valuable insights to make informed decisions to promote sustainability throughout their supply chain. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

The assessment/questionnaire is not so easy to be fulfilled, but the results of the evaluations provide valuable insights to improve sustainability performance of the companies. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

That we can reuse documents to several question. It is good the we can our language and not only English, specially when we don't have many documents in English. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Sometimes can the guideiance explanations how to answer or what kind of information that is needed be poor. So little improvments of the guideiance would be great. Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Global market reputation and presence, Market standards Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.

Costs for the suppliers

Integration of standard texts Review collected by and hosted on G2.com.