Are you a ship supplier worried about the impact of sustainability and its requirements on your business? Are you looking for a competitive advantage over your rival suppliers? Are you nervous about engaging in sustainability programmes? Not sure which way to turn? Do you need a strategy for sustainability in your business? Do these sound like questions you might be asking yourself? Help is at hand! Introducing the new service from Alexony Sustainability Consulting and CSR – the people at IMPA!

Background

The global shipping market has awakened to the need to be more sustainable. Customer demands on ship-owners and -managers are now filtering through to the supply chain at a rapid rate of knots and now is the time to act.

Owners are engaging in their own sustainable programmes, and some are joining together to impose new requirements throughout their supply chains in response to the requirements management has set or the regulations that they now face.

But sustainability is more than compliance. It is a business strategy that permeates throughout the organisation and done well, it becomes the culture of the business.

For ship suppliers, the problem is often where to start and how to maximise time and resources into this area. With so much noise around the topic, it can be daunting, but help is at hand.

About the service

Alexony Sustainability Consulting offer a specialist and highly confidential service for ship suppliers that begins with an assessment of where the business is currently positioned in its sustainability journey and what strategies, programmes and activity to engage with.

By working through this approach, suppliers cannot only ensure they are keeping up to date with their customers’ sustainability demands, but are driving change themselves to create a strong competitive advantage. Increasingly, ship-owners and -managers are selecting suppliers based on their sustainability credentials and by adopting the right strategy, suppliers will be able to promote their business with a unique CSR profile attractive and indeed essential to many customers.

Alexony Sustainability Consultancy is part of the management company that operates the secretariat for IMPA, the International Marine Purchasing Association. Over the last ten years, Alexony and IMPA have been intimately involved in the adoption of the world’s first responsible supply chain management system, IMPA ACT, alongside initiatives like IMPA SAVE and the Green Business Bureau for ship suppliers.

We are ideally placed to offer a select service to ship suppliers who are looking for a business strategy that will see them meet and exceed compliance requirements for all customers, avoiding the need to dedicate time and energy to several different systems.

Once underway, as a marketing and PR expert, Alexony can help promote and manage your sustainability reporting and communications.

Service Outline

• Assessment of business sustainability.
• Sustainability strategy formulation.
• Pre-entry assessment of current sustainability programmes, such as GBB, IMPA ACT and others.
• Formulation of sustainability action plan with progress milestones and mapping.
• Help and guidance with the IMPA ACT programme – gaining FULL qualification as a certified supplier.
• PR and communications plan to encompass social media and sustainability reporting.
• Ongoing assistance and support with sustainability programmes and continual assessment for changing regulations and initiatives.
• Full IMPA ACT consulting service.

Next steps?

If you are interested in getting your sustainability programme off to a flying start or developing it further to take into account new initiatives, then please contact our team.