Sustainability as a Criteria to Supplier Scorecard in a Case Company

Abstract

Sustainability has become a megatrend in business and a way to create value for customers. The use of natural resources and emissions have become the central topic to investors and companies are expected to share information about their environmental performance. The objective of this thesis is to create a supplier sustainability scorecard to SCM organization of the case company. The purpose for creating the scorecard is to be able to measure and improve the sustainability of the key suppliers of the case company. The proposal for the sustainability scorecard was done in cooperation with the key personnel from the case company in three workshops. This thesis studies best practice from corporate sustainability and balanced scorecards, and the current sustainability practices and supplier scorecards in the case company. With this information, a practical excel file for measuring suppliers’ sustainability performance with five criteria was proposed for the case company’s use. In addition the thesis gives