A robust sustainability program must dive deep to address the significant impacts that occur in the supply chain. These include agricultural practices, raw material sourcing and processing, and social impacts. Supplier scorecards can serve as a streamlined, elegant method of achieving multiple goals including:

• Communicating a company’s priorities
• Fostering supplier improvement in key areas
• Tracking progress
• Facilitating risk assessment
• Supporting incentives for supplier performance

Pure Strategies has supported Walmart in their ambitious effort to address their vast supply chain through the Sustainability Index. We have also developed a scorecard system to evaluate supplier sustainability for several companies across various industries.