AWS Supply Chain simplifies ESG data compliance

This article discusses how Amazon's Global Trade and Product Compliance (GTPC) team successfully implemented AWS Supply Chain Sustainability to streamline their process for gathering sustainability compliance artifacts from suppliers and trading partners.

Specifically, the article covers:

• The challenges GTPC faced with their previous manual, email-driven processes for collecting compliance data, including data security vulnerabilities, fragmented coordination, disjointed communication, and lack of metrics.
• How AWS Supply Chain Sustainability simplifies the process of requesting, collecting, and auditing ESG data from suppliers and trading partners by centralizing data collection, communication, and tracking.
• The benefits GTPC achieved by using AWS Supply Chain Sustainability, including saving approximately 3,000 operational hours per year, seamless communication with trading partners, improved visibility and performance tracking, auditable communication, and improved security compliance.
• A step-by-step guide on how requesters (e.g., GTPC) can invite trading partners, create data requests, and review responses using AWS Supply Chain Sustainability, as well as how trading partners can accept invitations and respond to data requests.
• Conclusion: AWS Supply Chain Sustainability can help organizations drive significant improvements in sustainability data management processes, supplier collaboration, and operational efficiency.