How can I better understand my scorecard results and work on improvements?

EcoVadis has developed a variety of materials helping to foster comprehension and adoption of continuous improvement based on your current scorecard results.

Information and guidance

On your scorecard, click the tooltip icon (when available) to view specific information and guidance for strengths and improvement areas, including downloadable how-to guides.
Each information and guidance box is customized to the theme, management indicator and the criteria that the strength or the improvement area refers to.

How-to guides

Information and guidance boxes also store downloadable EcoVadis how-to guides, which are a series of short and practical e-books providing you with further guidance on specific CSR topics. Each guide is designed to address a particular improvement area on the scorecard, explaining the importance of the subject and the management indicator (e.g., policies, actions, reporting on results). There are also concrete examples and best practices for you to develop your own policies, actions and reporting results for particular CSR topics.

There is a total of seventeen (17) how-to guides, covering more than 180 strengths and improvement areas and approximately fifty percent (50%) of all improvement areas activated on the scorecard.

All of the how-to guides are available in the CSR Guidance tab on the Useful Resources page:

Developing an Environmental Policy
Developing an Environmental Report
Developing a Labor & Human Rights Policy
Developing a Labor & Human Rights Report
Developing a Business Ethics Policy
Developing a Business Ethics Report
Developing a Sustainable Procurement Policy
Developing a Sustainable Procurement Report
Reporting on Greenhouse Gas Emissions
Reporting on Occupational Health & Safety Indicators
Developing Energy and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Management Actions
Developing Water Management Actions
Developing Occupational Health & Safety Actions
Developing Career Management and Training Actions
Developing Anti-discrimination & Harassment Actions
Developing a Whistleblower Procedure
Developing Information Security Procedures

Useful resources

The Useful Resources page contains materials to help you understand your company’s CSR performance, promote your company’s score and know how to improve it in the future. It also provides detailed information about the EcoVadis assessment process and the methodology applied by our CSR analysts.

Corrective action plan

To support your company’s CSR performance improvement, EcoVadis offers all assessed companies access to the online corrective action plan feature. Click here to learn more. 

Questions about the scorecard

Once your company has been assessed, and you had time to review your scorecard, you may have some specific questions regarding the suggested improvement areas, theme scores or the EcoVadis methodology in general. Click here to learn how EcoVadis can help.

Training and consulting partner program

As a rating agency, EcoVadis cannot provide direct consulting services. However, if you are seeking more ways to understand, respond and improve your EcoVadis score, take a look at the Official Training and Consulting partner program at www.ecovadis.com/csr-training-partners/.