How can your bold vision be transformed into a sustainable reality?

ESG’s potential to deliver a long-term advantage

Businesses that adopt environmental, social and governance (ESG) as an integral part of their corporate strategy will be better positioned to focus on key initiatives that can truly make an impact on society, their employees and customers, and the long-term value of the companies. Through its combined experience in consulting and intelligent technology solutions, the EY-Pega Alliance is helping clients reach their goals of strengthening supplier relationships, boosting operational capabilities and improving resiliency across their supply chains.

Research indicates that solid ESG practices result in:

The ESG solution from the EY-Pega Alliance

The overall goal of sustainable sourcing is to strengthen long-term relationships with suppliers at all tiers, addressing risks and building capabilities within supplier operations integrating ESG performance factors. The EY-Pega Alliance addresses these needs through its collective experience in consulting and intelligent technology solutions. 

  • Sustainable supplier management

    • Incorporation of environmental and social supplier performance criteria into supplier management and product life cycles
    • Creation of actionable data through workflow orchestration and case management
    • Improved supplier collaboration processes and platforms that foster supplier innovation and support eco-design
    • Increased value of sustainability and supply chain strategies
    • Tighter orchestration of workflows across silos, bringing together people, processes and systems

  • Sustainable procurement and raw materials sourcing

    • Improved ethical sustainable sourcing and visibility, traceability and resiliency across the supply chain from end to end
    • Reduced cost, waste and resource consumption and improved quality, productivity and other environmental efficiencies
    • More rapid progression toward carbon-neutral footprint
    • Reduced risks through the implementation of an alternative sourcing strategy
    • Enablement of more informed purchasing decisions through predictive analytics

  • Creating opportunity and competitive impact

    • Consumers expect companies to improve their sustainability impact
      • 50% of consumers intend to prioritize the environment and climate change in what they buy
      • 54% of consumers intend to pay more attention to environmental issues
    • Short- and long-term benefits to investing in sustainable supply chains
      • Investments in sustainable supply chains add about 12%-23% revenue to the value chain
      • 133% greater return on procurement investments than a typical business that doesn’t focus on having a diverse supply chain
      • 40% of all emissions in these supply chains could be abated with readily available and affordable levers
It’s all about what IT can do to transition technology to reduce your footprint and use analytics to measure it.
Lior Keet
Managing Director, Emerging Technologies, Ernst & Young LLP

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