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.
On the Core Plan you get access to limited features of the Due diligence; Received surveys.
You will receive surveys from other companies in the Klappir Ecosystem actively opening direct communication lines from the Ecosystem to you – initiating engagement and positioning you as a Core collaborator in the Ecosystem. With the Due Diligence feature you will:
Support your customers with high-quality data: On the Core Plan, you can receive surveys from other companies in the Klappir Ecosystem, enabling you to support your customers with their ESG due diligence requirements. By sharing accurate insights into your sustainability ambitions and performance, you help them assess ESG risks and opportunities while positioning yourself as a transparent and trustworthy partner.
Be visible and connected to the Ecosystem via your Impact Profile: On one hand, you can leverage your sustainability data and demonstrate your ambitions and progress to stakeholders, investors, and regulators. On the other, by identifying your Geographical Risk and Sustainability Completeness Disclosure, you gain visibility into your organization's risks and opportunities – alongside those reflected in the Impact Profiles of other organizations within the Klappir Ecosystem.
Due Diligence in Klappir's platform
Optional : Update your own Impact Profile
Every company in the Klappir Ecosystem has its own Impact Profile. It presents the essential data needed for a basic screening of your sustainability performance and responsible business conduct.
Keeping your Impact Profile up to date positions your company as a transparent and trustworthy partner within the Ecosystem. It also gives your customers streamlined access to relevant sustainability information, eliminating the need to respond manually to individual data requests.
Review your Impact Profile - Reflect on your responsible business conduct and identify your assessment grid by checking what you care about and where there may be room for improvement.
1. Map your stakeholders
Stakeholder mapping is crucial to the due diligence process. There are a few approaches available to stakeholder mapping and we suggest you check out CSRD’s methodology. In this process, the companies you want to map are the ones you do business with, and in this case it is your suppliers.
2. Prioritize with risk-based approach
Once you have mapped your suppliers adequately you can get the broad picture of risk areas in your value chain according to:
Assess each supplier’s:
Geographical risk or Country risk can be assessed 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.
Sector risk can be assessed using the NACE v2 sector on each company. Sector risks are inherent risks of dealing with an organization in a high impact sectors or sectors of specific interest. Evaluating which sectors are deemed high risk can be performed using one or more of the regulatory sources available. As there is no strict legal definition or classification on high-risk sectors one must
Disclosure risk can be assessed using the Disclosure % on each available Impact Profile. A 100% means that the company in question has responded fully
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.
2. Identify high-risk suppliers to prioritize for further assessment based on the ESG performance gaps that matter most for your sustainability journey. You control your due diligence priorities. Klappir tools guide you, but context matters.Tip: Keep a simple Excel list of these suppliers so you can review and discuss them with your team internally.
Here are some further considerations we recommend
Criticality of supplier
Strength of relationship
Spend (financial importance)
It is your sustainability journey — and your due diligence priorities.
Based on the results of your due diligence work in the Klappir platform, you can judge for yourself where unacceptable risk areas are and whether to Cease, Prevent and/or Mitigate the risks you have identified depending on your priorities.
3. Follow up with Survey (on the Impact Plan)
Next Steps
Perform due diligence to assess high-risk stakeholders in your value chain with surveys.
Head to Due Diligence → Sent Surveys on the platform to learn more.
