How to measure Sustainability: leverages and opportunities · •shared value creation, ... Sustainability at supply chain level ... The Bata Group - funded in 1894 • 22 footwear-manufacturing

Federico Magalini – Managing Director Sofies UK

How to measure Sustainability:

leverages and opportunities

Smart territories

Making territories more

sustainable through systemic

and integrated approaches

Sustainable industrial zones

Making industrial areas more

sustainable and attractive

through industrial symbiosis

Alternative Energy Systems

Developing alternative to fossil

fuels with climate positive and

renewable energies

Sustainable production and

processing

Ensuring competitive and long

term business based on an

optimal use of resources and

energy

Secondary resource and urban

mining

Turning wastes into resources

Managing Sustainability

Driving sustainability:

Innovate, manage, monitor,

asses and report

Our Domains of Intervention

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Why Sustainability?

It has been proven that a strong sustainability strategy leads to:

• enhanced performance,

• shared value creation, and

• market differentiation.


R.G. Eccles, I.Ioannou, and G.Serafeim, The Impact of Corporate Sustainability on Organizational Processes and Performance

Sustainability at supply chain level

Challenges identified

• High degree of Innovation

• Globalization

• Increasing number of Competitors

• Increase of Outsourcing of functions

more and more and more companies extend their commitment to

responsible business practices to their value chains

This allow:

• Detection of resource dispersion flows close the loop

• Assessment of efficiency at a Supply Chain as well as at a Company level

• Measurement of potential improvements


Multitude of tools and methodologies

• Materiality assessment

• LCA and foot printing

• Circular Economy Business Gaming

• …

Is it possible to measure sustainability?



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Sofies’s approach to measure sustainability

To meet and go beyond our clients’ expectations, we adopt an

action-oriented approach:

• We make a cost-effective and pragmatic use of sustainability tools and

methodologies (materiality assessment, LCA, etc.)

• We identify and develop mitigation measures that correspond to our

clients’ operational reality and institutional culture

• We create a synergistic and collaborative work relationship with our

clients to ensure that this effort is sustained in time and can be built upon

in the future


Case studies

Case study 1: Measuring the sustainability

performance of the Bata Group for a better production

The Bata Group - funded in 1894

• 22 footwear-manufacturing plants in 19 countries,

• employs more than 30,000 people,

• sells its products in more than 90 countries

Bata’s motto: “Leaving a lighter shoe print”




Outcome: Elaboration of a Key Performance

Indicators (KPIs) monitoring system

• Selection of 6 relevant KPIs using GRI

approach, including the energy used to

produce 1 pair of shoes

• An executive KPIs report with

comprehensive figures based on quarterly

data collection to help managers

understand the key sustainability trends

• A set of recommendations for

implementation, based on Cleaner

Production principles, international

standards and best practices




More information

• on Bata’s sustainability webpage

• Download Bata’s Sustainability Review 2016

• Global Reporting Initiative’s Apparel and Footwear Sector Supplement


Case study 2 : Nespresso’s “Positive Cup” report

The document presents Nespresso’s efforts to integrate sustainability into their activities,

with a focus on four domains: company, coffee, aluminum and climate.

Sofies contributed its materiality assessment and GRI reporting.


Case study 2 : Nespresso’s “Positive Cup” report

Materiality assessment process:

• Identify stakeholders

identification, prioritisation and grouping of stakeholders, including investors, employees, customers, suppliers, NGOs, government and media

• Identify your indicators

Identification and prioritisation of sustainability indicators the organisation wants to measure

• Conduct a survey

Survey across the organisation and with major stakeholders to rank the sustainability indicators identifies by importance and impact

• Prepare ranking matrix

Information gathered are plot on a matrix style graph to determine their relative materiality


Sofies: linking dots & Integrate competences


Case study 3: Evaluating the overall industrial performance

of companies in the Great East region

Part of the regional master plan “Factory of the Future to

help the Region to secure its industrial position and

attraction potential.

Outcome

• Support of 100 to 150 SMEs by Sofies and its 2

partners

• Environmental Excellence diagnosis – 0.5 day

– On site-visit + interviews

• Identification of improvement opportunities and

priority actions plan tailored to the activities and

maturity level of the company

For more information

• Visit our partners’ websites: OPEO and Eco2 Initiative

• Visit the governmental page on Factory of the Future


Output Example

Case study 4: Cleaner production case studies

in Tunisia

Ensure sustainable improvement in

economic performance in Tunisia by

securing businesses’ commitment to

clean production initiative

20 case studies to illustrate the

application of Cleaner Production

Methodology in five key sectors in

Tunisia.

Development of actions plan with

assessment of the benefits of

improvement measures in terms of

competitiveness


Background Sofies

18

35Employees500+

Projects

Offices:

Bangalore | Geneva | London

Paris | Zurich

100External

technical and field

experts

40Countries

Who are we?

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Innovant,

opinion leader,

en tête de

peloton, stimuler

premier

followers

No

militantsism,

we listen and

adapt

Create added

value based

professional

services &

technical

expertise

Create &

develop project

based on

longlasting

partnerships

provide

professional

service and

technical

expertise with

added value

We believe in

what we do

and have

pleasure in

doing it

At sofies

everybody

counts,

holacracy &

collective

intelligence

Our Company’s Strengths

16/11/2017 CRIT - Sostenibilità e competitività

Smart territories

Making territories more

sustainable through systemic

and integrated approaches

Sustainable industrial zones

Making industrial areas more

sustainable and attractive

through industrial symbiosis

Alternative Energy Systems

Developing alternative to fossil

fuels with climate positive and

renewable energies

Sustainable production and

processing

Ensuring competitive and long

term business based on an

optimal use of resources and

energy

Secondary resource and urban

mining

Turning wastes into resources

Managing Sustainability

Driving sustainability:

Innovate, manage, monitor,

asses and report

Our Domains of Intervention


Q&A: [email protected]

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How to measure Sustainability: leverages and opportunities · •shared value creation, ... Sustainability at supply chain level ... The Bata Group - funded in 1894 • 22 footwear-manufacturing