EcoVadis, a provider of sustainability ratings, and Ivalua, a leader in spend and supplier management, have extended their partnership by integrating EcoVadis IQ Plus directly into Ivalua’s Risk Center, building on their existing collaboration to address supply chain risk and sustainability challenges.The collaboration aims to equip procurement teams with enhanced tools to navigate the complexities of global supply chains, which are characterized by rising risk management costs, market volatility, geopolitical tensions, climate change, resource scarcity, and increasing stakeholder and regulatory demands. These factors have led to more complex processes, a wider array of risks (including ESG and operational), a growing network of third parties, and expanded regulatory requirements.The integration facilitates the embedding of risk signals and sustainability intelligence from EcoVadis IQ Plus into Ivalua’s platform across various workflows. This enables users to visualize potential risk hotspots before engaging with suppliers, leveraging predictive analytics and global risk indicators to provide data-driven insights early in the sourcing and supplier management process.Pierre-François Thaler, co-founder and co-CEO of EcoVadis, stated, “Our partnership with Ivalua is grounded in a shared commitment to embed sustainability into procurement at scale to help organizations meet growing regulatory, investor, and customer expectations. Through this new data integration, we are empowering procurement and supply chain teams to proactively identify sustainability and ESG-related risks across their supplier base, faster and more effectively than ever before.”Franck Lheureux, CEO at Ivalua, added, “By combining EcoVadis IQ Plus and Ivalua’s market-leading capabilities, we enable organizations to address today’s challenges and future-proof for tomorrow in a more efficient and cost-effective way. It’s more than just displaying scores. With Ivalua, organisations can leverage EcoVadis insights wherever they want, across any processes to make better and faster decisions to proactively manage risks and drive sustainable practices.”This new integration is designed to allow organizations to assess third parties’ ESG maturity earlier, more quickly, and across a broader range of suppliers. These insights aim to enhance supply chain risk mapping capabilities for more efficient and effective risk assessment and mitigation through functionalities such as risk mapping across the entire supplier base, faster qualification and screening of new suppliers, continuous monitoring of sustainability-related risks, and improved decision-making for supplier selection and risk mitigation.The EcoVadis IQ Plus integration is now available to all Ivalua customers globally.EcoVadis specializes in providing sustainability intelligence for supply chains, offering ratings, risk, and carbon management tools to businesses across 220 industries in 185 countries. Its services are utilized by over 150,000 businesses, including Johnson & Johnson, L’Oréal, Unilever, and JPMorgan.Ivalua provides cloud-based spend management software, offering a unified Source-to-Pay platform that assists businesses in managing various spend categories and suppliers. The company is recognized by industry analysts for its capabilities in increasing profitability, improving sustainability, lowering risk, and boosting employee productivity.