Advancing transparency, accountability and responsible practices across supply chain operations in the retail sector

The Retail Impact Initiative (RII) powered by EcoVadis is a collaborative effort formed by a group of retail companies united by a voluntary resolve from each member to improve the sustainability performance of their supply chains, upholding human rights and environmental practices. By advancing transparency, accountability, and sector-wide standards, the initiative aims to foster lasting progress, creating a more responsible and resilient future for the retail sector, all within the limits of competition law.

Members benefits

Retail Impact Initiative members work together with suppliers to assess and improve their sustainability practices. Participating in this process offers various benefits, such as:

  • Strengthen supplier outreach, resulting in an increased coverage of the assessed supply base through higher supplier participation.
  • Expand visibility of the broader retail industry’s supply chain sustainability performance allowing more informed decisions
  • Enhance synergies in driving improvement with suppliers and third parties
  • Directly engage with industry peers and influential external stakeholders without infringing antitrust regulations

Supplier benefits

If you have received a sustainability assessment request on behalf of the Retail Impact Initiative, you are considered as a trading partner for at least one member of this Initiative. Engaging in this process offers various benefits, such as:

  • Increase efficiency through sharing your scorecard with many customers at once
  • Gain visibility of industry leaders’ commitment to go beyond compliance and drive sustainability efforts in partnership with trading partners like yourself in a compliant manner
  • Strengthen long-term customer relationships and valuable information about your positioning in all aspects of sustainability
  • Accelerate improvement via access to focused capacity building and improvement activities

Within our initiative, companies can:

Capitalize on synergies
Learn and adopt best practices
Reduce workload and avoid redundant, manual SAQs, etc.
Concentrate on industry-specific criteria
Improve recognition and collaboration
Acceleration of their sustainability journey

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A Retail Impact Initiative membership is open to companies that have an industry and purpose fit with the members and fulfil the initiative’s membership requirements.

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