RESOURCES · GUIDES · EVIDENCE
Practical ESG resources for suppliers.
Start with the customer request.
Guides for manufacturing suppliers that need to respond to customer ESG questionnaires, data requests, evidence requests and supplier platform invitations.
The focus is operational: scope, data owners, source documents, supporting evidence, internal review and a response your company can stand behind.
Resource topicsCustomer questionnaires · supplier ESG data · evidence · data owners · policies · supplier codes · Scope 1 & 2 · VSME
START HERE
A customer has asked for ESG information?
Do not collect everything first.
Start with the specific request, then work back to scope, owners, sources and evidence.
START WITH THE REQUEST
Received an ESG questionnaire from a customer?
Check scope, deadline, reporting period, internal owners, evidence requirements and real gaps before answering field by field.
Start with the questionnaireUNDERSTAND THE DATA
What ESG data do customers ask suppliers for?
A practical overview of the categories that often appear in supplier requests, from company data and energy to policies, supply chain and evidence.
See common data categoriesFIND THE OWNERS
Who owns ESG data inside the company?
Map each requested data point to the right internal source owner, calculation owner, statement owner and approver.
Find data ownersCHECK THE EVIDENCE
ESG Questionnaire Checklist
Work through the actual questionnaire: scope, owners, data, evidence, gaps, consistency and final submission checks.
Start the checklist
CUSTOMER REQUESTS
When a customer asks for supplier ESG information.
The hard question is often not: what is ESG?
It is: what exactly is the customer asking us to provide?
GUIDE
Received an ESG questionnaire from a customer?
What to do first after receiving an ESG questionnaire: scope, deadline, data owners, evidence and internal confirmation.
Open the workflowGUIDE
What ESG data do customers ask suppliers for?
Common ESG data categories customers ask suppliers for, with careful scope and evidence distinctions.
Open the data guideDATA OWNER GUIDE
Who owns ESG data inside the company?
A practical map for where ESG information often sits inside the company, from Finance and HR to Facility, EHS, Procurement and Management.
Find internal ownersINTERACTIVE TOOL
ESG Questionnaire Checklist
Interactive submission-readiness checklist for scope, data, evidence, gaps, approvals and final review.
Start the checklist
EVIDENCE
An answer is only as strong as its source.
Customers and supplier platforms often ask not only what the answer is, but what it is based on.
From the beginning
Statement - source - evidence
GUIDE
ESG evidence for suppliers
Which documents support which ESG answers, and where scope, period, validity or approval can make evidence weak.
Understand evidencePLATFORM GUIDE
EcoVadis documents and evidence
How to prioritise EcoVadis documents, avoid weak uploads and keep platform-specific limits and independence clear.
Prepare EcoVadis evidencePLATFORM GUIDE
IntegrityNext invitation for suppliers
What to do after an IntegrityNext invitation, from profile scope and assessments to certificates, questionnaires and validation.
Open IntegrityNext guideINTERACTIVE TOOL
ESG Evidence Readiness Check
Interactive readiness check for whether a document supports a specific ESG answer by scope, period, source and traceability.
Check one document
POLICIES & SUPPLIER EXPECTATIONS
Documents need scope, owner, status and evidence.
Customer requests often ask whether a policy or supplier code exists. The answer has to distinguish the document from implementation, approval and supporting evidence.
Document discipline
Draft - approved - implemented - evidenced
POLICY GUIDE
Environmental Policy
How to create an Environmental Policy that reflects actual operations, scope, responsibilities and supportable environmental commitments.
Create a credible policySUPPLIER MANAGEMENT GUIDE
Supplier Code of Conduct
How to build a Supplier Code of Conduct with realistic ESG and compliance expectations, internal approval and practical rollout.
Structure supplier expectationsSYSTEM GUIDE
Reusable ESG Data Foundation
Store approved versions, scope, owner, status and evidence so documents do not need to be rediscovered for each customer request.
Reuse documents correctly
CARBON & REPORTING
From emissions concepts to usable report data.
Keep concepts, activity data, emission factors and report requirements separate enough to review.
Calculation logic
Boundary - activity data - emission factor - CO2e
CARBON DATA GUIDE
What data do you need to calculate Scope 1 and Scope 2?
What to collect before calculating Scope 1 and Scope 2: boundary, period, activity data, emission factors, CO2e and source documentation.
Prepare Scope 1 & 2 dataEXPLAINER
Scope 1, 2 and 3 explained for companies and suppliers
A clear explanation of Scope 1, Scope 2 and Scope 3 from the reporting company perspective, with manufacturing supplier examples.
Understand the scopesREPORTING GUIDE
What data do you need for a VSME sustainability report?
Which company, energy, emissions, environmental, workforce, policy and governance information an SME should prepare for a VSME report.
Prepare VSME dataINTERACTIVE TOOL
Scope 1 & 2 Data Collection Template
Collect electricity, fuel, vehicle, refrigerant and purchased-energy activity data by site, period, unit and source.
Open the workspace
HOW THESE RESOURCES ARE WRITTEN
Practical, traceable and evidence-first.
Evipace resources are designed for real supplier work under time pressure.
We keep clear distinctions between:
- Company data
- Information that actually comes from the business.
- Calculations
- How source data becomes a KPI or CO2e figure.
- Evidence
- Which source supports a statement.
- Assumptions
- Where a method needs judgement or estimation.
- Gaps
- What is genuinely missing or not yet approved.
These guides are prepared by Evipace. Preparation workflows and examples are our practical guidance; official requirements are linked to the standard setter or platform. Check the cited version against your reporting period or assigned assessment.
New documents are not presented as historical evidence.
Uncertain information is not written as confirmed fact.
Platform outcomes, customer acceptance and scores are not guaranteed.
FROM RESOURCE TO RESPONSE
You do not have to assemble everything alone.
The resources show how individual ESG tasks can be structured.
If a concrete customer request already exists, send the original questionnaire, email, spreadsheet or platform export.
We can identify the required data, available sources, real gaps and evidence needed for a response your company can review.
WHEN YOU WOULD RATHER NOT DO IT IN-HOUSE
The same work, prepared for you.
Each guide above has a service behind it. Same method, same evidence discipline — carried out by Evipace instead of by your team.
Customer ESG requests
Any format of customer sustainability request, from spreadsheets to portal forms.
ESG questionnaire support
A defined questionnaire or supplier assessment that has to be answered field by field.
EcoVadis support
Assessment answers, supporting evidence and gaps prepared before submission.
IntegrityNext support
Profile scope, assessments, certificates and the company data behind each answer.
Scope 1 & 2 calculation
A documented calculation with activity data, factors, sources and assumptions.
VSME sustainability reporting
Voluntary SME reporting built on a reviewed company data foundation.
START WITH THE REQUEST
The customer has already asked?
Send us what the customer sent you. We begin with the actual request, not a generic ESG checklist.
Questionnaire - Excel - PDF - portal - customer email