Connect with the Ecosystem through Due Diligence for your Impact journey

The Due Diligence feature

Following the OECD Due Diligence Guidance for Responsible Business Conduct, Klappir’s sustainability platform supports a systematic scoping of your risks, and assessment of your actual or potential impact – examining Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) factors – both at the organization level and across the value chain.

The Due Diligence tool gives you the actionable insights you need to manage your time, resources, and value chain relationships more effectively — bringing focus and clarity to sustainable impact at an Ecosystem level. On the Impact Plan, you get access to the complete portfolio of Due diligence features; Received surveys and Sent surveys.

By scoping risks and assessing actual or potential impacts you identify the exact risk areas to assess further. You take control of your due diligence process and send surveys to the high-risk suppliers to identify where risk mitigation strategies should be prioritized.

Due Diligence in Klappir's platform

Due diligence Step-by-step:

1. Review your Impact Profile

• Add accurate information about your organization in Organization>Impact Profile. In Summary, review that your country, sector and publicly available information are represented correctly. In the About section, you can add a current sustainability summary and share your sustainability ambitions.
• In Disclosures, scope your enterprise risk by answering the Disclosures completeness questionnaire – gain an understanding of your gaps across ESG and your focus areas vs. neglected areas.
  
  

2. Scope your direct suppliers

• Go to the Value Chain section in the Klappir platform and ensure that all direct suppliers are added for a full overview of your supply chain. Note: If you do not find your supplier you need to make a New legal entity and invite them to the platform
• Review each supplier’s:
  
  • Geographical risk in Country Profile: Each company is evaluated based on the SDG Index of its geographical location – a ranking from the Sustainable Development Report that measures a country's overall progress toward achieving all 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Lower scores on the SDG Index indicate more significant developmental challenges and potential risks, resulting in a higher geographical risk.

• • Disclosure completeness in Disclosures:  The Completeness Disclosure process scopes: 
    • Strengths and gaps across ESG (e.g., where you have policies in place and where you do not).
    • Focus areas vs. neglected areas in your sustainability approach.

• Identify high-risk suppliers to prioritize for further assessment based on the ESG performance gaps that matter most for your sustainability journey. Tip: Keep a simple Excel list of these suppliers so you can review and discuss them with your team internally.

3. Invite suppliers to complete their Impact profile 

• You can now truly lead by example, growing impact at an Ecosystem level. Invite suppliers in your value chain without a complete Impact Profile or disclosure to build their own Core journey – building more transparency and clarity in your value chain.
• Access Value chain>Invitations to start connecting with your suppliers and invite them to build the bedrock to their connected, data-driven sustainability practices at no cost. 

4. Assess high-risk suppliers

• Reassess using Geographical Risk scores + Disclosures responses and make a note of the suppliers you may need to evaluate further. Tip: Keep a simple Excel list of these suppliers so you can review and discuss them with your team internally.
• Send detailed surveys in Due diligence>Sent surveys questionnaires to high-risk suppliers to identify areas where risk mitigation strategies need to be prioritized.

5. You control your due diligence priorities 

• Klappir tools guide you, but context matters.
• Consider:
  • Criticality of supplier
  • Strength of relationship
  • Spend (financial importance)

It is your sustainability journey — and your due diligence priorities.

The Due diligence feature; Received surveys and Sent surveys.

Still unsure how to perform due diligence? Find support from our partners, or reach out to the service desk for additional guidance.