Novata for Supply Chains
Take control of your supply chain sustainability data so you can understand your risks, spot your opportunities, and drive real financial performance.
Streamline Your Supplier Data, End-to-End
Collecting sustainability data across companies is complex.
Novata helps organizations standardize supplier data, improve participation, benchmark performance, and turn sustainability insights into business value at scale.
Built for the Entire Value Chain
For Organizations Collecting Supplier Data
Coordinate supplier engagement, standardize responses, and manage sustainability data in one place.
- Reduce manual follow-ups
- Standardize supplier responses
- Improve visibility across the supplier base
- Strengthen reporting readiness
- Make supplier sustainability data useful for business decisions
For Suppliers Reporting Data
Give suppliers a simple, guided experience that improves participation and reduces reporting burden.
- Clear workflows and definitions
- Easy data entry and document support
- Reusable responses across requests
- Less back-and-forth with stakeholders
- A better experience for resource-constrained teams
Collect Supplier Data
Replace manual follow-ups with clear requests and built-in review.
- Structured supplier questionnaires
- In-platform engagement and follow-ups
- Real-time completion tracking
- Full audit trail across submissions
Understand Performance
Benchmark supplier data, analyze Scope 3 emissions, and identify operational and sustainability risks across your supply chain.
- Scope 3 emissions analysis
- Supplier benchmarking
- Cross-supplier comparisons
- Risk and performance monitoring
Turn Insight Into Action
Connect sustainability insights to reporting, supplier engagement, and business strategy.
- Reporting and disclosure support
- Supplier prioritization
- Operational and financial decision-making
- Advisory and strategic guidance
Launch Fast
Onboard suppliers, prioritize engagement, and start generating high-quality data quickly.
Manage at Scale
Track supplier progress, collaborate on submissions, and manage workflows in one place.
Drive Performance
With benchmarks and Novata Advisory, turn supplier data into insights that support reporting and business performance.
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FAQ
Supplier sustainability data management is the process of collecting, validating, and reporting on ESG data from the suppliers across your value chain. It’s the hardest part of sustainability reporting because the data you need lives outside your organization with suppliers who have different systems, inconsistent methodologies, and competing priorities. The result is fragmented spreadsheets, manual follow-ups, and incomplete data that’s nearly impossible to benchmark or trust.
Scope 3 emissions are the hardest to measure accurately because they depend on data from suppliers who may never have calculated their own carbon footprint. Novata’s Carbon Navigator combines primary supplier-reported inputs with intelligent estimation to give you full Scope 3 coverage without data gaps. AI-assisted data ingestion and validation guides suppliers through accurate entry the first time, reducing the back-and-forth that typically delays Scope 3 reporting by weeks.
Several major regulations now require supply chain sustainability data:
- CSRD: Requires value chain impact reporting under ESRS, making Scope 3 and supplier-level ESG data mandatory for large companies with EU operations.
- California SB 253: Requires Scope 1, 2, and 3 disclosures for large companies doing business in California, making supplier engagement a legal requirement.
- CDP / GHG Protocol: Both increasingly expect primary supplier data over spend-based estimates.
Novata maps collected supplier data to the metrics required by each framework, maintains a full audit trail for defensible disclosures, and our Advisory team helps you identify which supplier data points are truly material for your specific obligations. Learn more about regulations.
Supplier participation is the biggest barrier to supply chain reporting. Novata’s purpose-built platform lets you collect consistent, audit-ready sustainability and emissions data directly from suppliers (mapped across facilities, geographies, and business units) without the manual overhead. Novata’s supply chain data management solutions include:
- Guided workflows walk suppliers through each data point with built-in instructions and contextual help.
- AI-assisted validation catches errors before submission, improving data quality without requiring ESG expertise.
- Real-time progress tracking shows exactly which suppliers have submitted and where to focus follow-up.
Most sustainability platforms treat supply chain data collection as an add-on: a basic survey module that sends requests and collects responses with little structure or analytical depth. Novata is purpose-built for the supply chain data problem, with three meaningful differences:
- Institutional-grade data architecture: A standardized metric library and structured data model ensure that data collected from 5 or 500 suppliers is consistent, comparable, and decision-ready.
- In-platform benchmarks and dashboards: Go beyond compliance to understand supplier performance by region, category, or risk profile and prioritize where engagement drives the greatest impact.
- Expert advisory support: Novata Advisory helps identify what’s truly material and translates data into a forward-looking supply chain strategy.
Most teams using Novata are actively collecting supplier data within weeks, not quarters. Novata handles the heavy lifting upfront:
- Supplier account setup: Novata configures your supplier network so suppliers have a ready-to-use experience from day one.
- Prioritization guidance: Novata helps you identify which suppliers represent the greatest emissions or risk exposure so your first cycle is focused where it matters most.
- Dashboard configuration: Reporting views, benchmarks, and progress tracking are set up to match your framework requirements and business units.
Supply Chain Data.
Simple. Scalable. Standardized.
See how Novata helps organizations collect, manage, and act on sustainability data across companies.