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OpenText Global Partner DirectoryHelping connect ethical, sustainable and compliant supply chains

Solution overview

Identifying and onboarding new trading partners can be a time and cost intensive process. Part of the challenge is trying to identify suitable trading partners to work with that meet specific product or operational criteria. In addition, companies may have to select suppliers based on other factors, such as whether they embrace ethical and sustainability working practices, to meet consumer expectations for ethical and sustainably sourced products.When identifying and selecting a supplier in the past, the supplier was evaluated on factors, such as cost, quality, continuity of supply and speed of supply. For an ethical and sustainable supply chain, these criteria must be complemented with other factors, such as working conditions, environmental practices, safety standards and human rights policies, in order to proactively protect the buying company’s reputation.

Selecting, managing and monitoring your supply chain for ethical and sustainable practices is simplified with OpenText Global Partner Directory (GPD). An innovative solution built on top of OpenText™ Trading Grid™, the world’s largest pre-connected trading community with 800,000 connected trading partners. GPD is the foundation for establishing an ethical, sustainable and compliant supply chain, enabling customers to enforce and comply with Ethical & Sustainability Governance (ESG) initiatives, government mandates and accelerate time to value with the right trading partners.

Improve global ethical and sustainability working practices

Protect brand and consumer loyalty

Align with business ethical policy goals

Accelerate time-to-market and onboard faster

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GPD allows you to search and filter suppliers based on critical demographics to your supply chain, for example, industry focus, financial position and supplier location. GPD also allows filtered searches by ethical criteria and other working practices. Once suppliers have been identified, GPD offers a self-service connect capability to those suppliers.

Establishing an ethical and sustainable supply chain has quickly moved from a ‘nice to have’ to a ‘must have’ for every organization. Companies that establish a trusted, end-to-end supplier ecosystem that embraces ethical and sustainable working practices are likely to reap the benefits from improved operations, increased collaboration and innovation, and, most importantly, clear differentiation in the minds of customers. A recent OpenText survey confirmed this, with 92% of surveyed supply chain professionals stating that operating ethically was very important for their organization.

GPD Benefits Accelerate onboarding: Faster onboarding means a shorter time to market. GPD helps quickly identify new suppliers by leveraging a large consolidated repository of trading partners.

Brand protection: With consumer and brand loyalty controlling more of the bottom line, it is critical to minimize risk through CSR compliance, leadership and careful supplier selection of suppliers.

Strategic partner management: GPD helps businesses align with their ethical policy goals by managing current and future partner compliance—both with technical and ethical requirements. GPD allows you to strategically manage who you do business with by understanding supplier performance and reputation.

Self-service control: The self-service capabilities within GPD help identify prospective suppliers and make a connectivity request for greater control and efficiency in the onboarding process.

Increase trust and minimize risk: GPD allows companies to identify suppliers that are more closely aligned with a company’s ethics and working practices to build a trusted, highly secure and highly available ecosystem.

Align with corporate initiatives: GPD ensures that new suppliers can be identified and aligned with CSR, ethical or responsible sourcing requirements before doing business, allowing for greater control when growing your organization strategically.

GPD DifferentiatorsPower of the network: Trading Grid is the largest cloud integration platform with the most trading partner connections in the world, offering an extensive, pre-connected community that makes OpenText the only choice for building ESG enabled supply chains.

Integrate with other information sources: GPD can be integrated to other third-party information sources to augment the existing trading partner information with details relating to, for example, credit worthiness or ethical working practices for a more complete picture of the trading partners with whom they may wish to work.

Multiple trading partner connectivity options: The Trading Grid network offers numerous ways to electronically connect with trading partners. This complexity is shielded from GPD users so that they can accelerate the onboarding of new trading partners with minimum fuss.

Compliance monitoring: GPD offers capabilities to monitor trading partner communities, especially important from a compliance and exception management point of view. Future releases will improve day-to-day supplier collaboration and provide capabilities, such as sending surveys to trading partner communities in support of annual assessment or compliance processes.

Solution components chart

OpenText Trading GridUnified cloud integration platform delivered as a managed service.Trading Grid is pre-connected to more than 800,000 businesses wordwide

OpenText Managed Services Enables day-to-day cloud integration operations management by a trusted, experienced partner to accelerate time to value

Dun & Bradstreet DatabaseIntegration between Global Partner Directory and Dun & Bradstreet’s database allows existing trading partner information to be augmented with information from D&B’s extensive database.

EcoVadisIntegration between Global Partner Directory and EcoVadis allows companies to monitor their trading partners for ethical and sustainability performance. EcoVadis measures company performance across 21 sustainability indicators and hence allows GPD users to identify and select trading partners based on certain ethical criteria.

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