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The score4more explore database is available to all companies, organizations and interested parties who want to gain deeper insights into the sustainability strategies of companies in their industry and along the value chain. It doesn’t matter whether your company is large, medium-sized or small – anyone can use the platform to gain valuable information about the competition, market leaders and suppliers.
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The score4more explore database contains detailed information on the sustainability actions and solutions of leading companies in 100 different industries. This includes sustainability strategies, best practices and industry-specific solutions from sustainability market leaders, and industry-specific information on sustainability fields and material topics in the 100 industries. This data will help you to get a comprehensive picture of the sustainability practice in your market.
The main difference between ”score4more explore” and “score4more succeed” ist the perspective on an entire industry vs. an individual company.
score4more explore covers the industry perspective and is suited for business users that want to better understand sustainability strategies in an industry and value chain including related industry leaders and best practices. It provides access to a database with comprehensive information on the sustainability strategies of market leaders, peers, suppliers and customers. This offering makes it possible to analyze industries and markets in more detail in order to gain valuable insights into sustainability industry developments.
score4more succeed, on the other hand, focuses on the individual company. It offers features for profiling, scoring, benchmarking and detailed analysis to improve sustainability of the individual company. It also enables participation in the German Sustainability Award (DNP). This offering is available in different plans, from a free basic plan to a paid pro plan with analytics for companies that want deeper insights into their sustainability performance.
In short, score4more explore is designed to analyze industries and markets in terms of sustainability, while score4more succeed is aimed at improving a company’s own sustainability performance.
Yes, you can use both score4more explore and score4more succeed. score4more explore offers you in-depth insights into sustainability strategies in specific industries, while score4more succeed helps you to analyze and improve your own company sustainability performance. Both offerings complement each other, as you can use explore to better understand the industry and succeed to strategically develop your own company. Please note that the accesses work separately from each other and you must register for both offers individually.
With the free Discovery plan you can use basic functionalities of our database. You can get to know the leading companies in the industry as peer orientation, as well as explore industry-specific sustainability fields.
Upgrade to the “Industry” plan to gain insights into the sustainability strategies via the sustainability summaries, and reporting sources of the leading companies in an industry of your choice via the “Company Cards”. Select an industry from 20 sectors and 100 industries and gain insights into the best practices of the pioneers, sorted by industry-specific fields, topics and criteria. You will also benefit from the sustainable solutions, i.e. products, services and systems, from and for the industry. You can also find out about industry-specific topics (ESRS) and criteria and view the average scoring for the industry (coming soon).
With the “Value Chain” plan, you can analyze an entire value chain with e.g. customer and supplier industries. You get all the benefits of the “Industry” plan for five industries instead of one of your choice.
Here you will find an overview of the score4more pricing plans.
score4more comprises sustainability data from 3,000 companies in 100 industries, structured in sustainability profiles. The database comprises 1,000 solutions and 50,000 measures in industry-specific, key criteria, based on the ESRS. To make this data usable for companies, research institutes, consultants and individuals, we apply AI-powered analytics to summarize best practices and score company sustainability data in each criterion according to our 5-level scoring methodology. This results is the company’s overall score. Industry leaders shown are then the top 10 in each industry according to score.
If you have a company profile on score4fore, the individual data of the profile is not shown associated to your company in score4more explore. The best practices and solutions are not company-specific, but are sorted and aggregated according to industry-specific criteria. Measures and solutions are filtered for relevance with the help of AI and compiled in a different language. In addition, company and product names are removed. You can therefore be sure that you have control over the original content of your profile. As the profiles are based on public data and transparency and best practice transfer is an important lever in the transformation, the aim is to make public sustainability data easier and more structured to use for the transformation.
The key sustainability issues vary greatly from industry to industry. In energy-intensive industries, for example, the focus is on climate and energy aspects, while in other industries social or environmental issues are more relevant. score4more explore maps these industry-specifics in the database so that you can specifically analyze the sustainability strategies relevant to your industry. The selection of criteria is based on the initial specifications of the EU ESRS standard, giving you insights into industry-specific challenges, risks and opportunities (IRO topics) that are important for materiality analysis in accordance with the new EU reporting standard.
In our initial research, companies were assigned to the industry in which they primarily operate. Many companies now register themselves on our platform. Here, too, the allocation is based on the main business, i.e. the industry in which the majority of turnover or value added is generated is selected.
The Company Cards contain the basic data of each company (address, number of employees, turnover) and the main sustainability source on which the company profile on our platform is based. In addition, the Company Cards show the company’s sustainability summary, which briefly and concisely summarizes the company’s activities and its sustainability performance and strategy.
The best practices are not presented on a company-specific basis in our score4more explore service. In the benchmarking already available as part of score4more succeed, scores as well as selected and summarized best practices from pre-selected pioneers are aggregated and compared with your profile. The selection is based on the current scores. Here too, measures and solutions are filtered for relevance with the help of AI and compiled in a different language. Please contact us for an individual benchmarking with companies of your choice via hello@score4more.eu or using our contact form.
No, the best practices are a compilation of selected measures from the companies. They are filtered from the profiles of the pioneering companies according to their level of sustainability (based on the scores) and summarized linguistically using AI/ML so that they have a consistent length and form of wording. As all the information in the profiles comes from published sources, the best practices can also be found in public sources.
Solutions can include tangible products as well as services, systems, campaigns or initiatives that make a particular contribution to sustainable transformation in at least one of the following five areas:
- Climate
- Resources
- Nature
- Value chain
- Society
Solutions from the industry are solutions that come from the industry itself, i.e. they have been published in the profile of a company from the industry.
Solutions for the industry are solutions that companies from other industries offer to companies in the specific industry.
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