Adlibris
Empowering suppliers to boost supply chain transparency
Linnéa Hård
Sustainability Manager
Industry
Retail
Product
Sustainable Sourcing
Region
EMEA
About
Adlibris
Adlibris, along with its brands Campusbokhandeln and Pocket Shop, is the largest online bookstore in the Nordic region, operating in Sweden, Finland, and Norway. In addition to its online presence, Adlibris runs physical stores all around Sweden. In 2021, Adlibris achieved a turnover of approximately 2 billion SEK.
Challenge
Adlibris struggled with outdated and inconsistent supply chain data, making it difficult to meet sustainability goals. Varying levels of supplier maturity and knowledge on ESG topics and inconsistent data submissions complicated procurement and sustainability efforts.
Solution
Adlibris chose Worldfavor to streamline supplier engagement and data collection through an intuitive platform. Worldfavor's standardized questionnaires and automated risk analyses ensured accurate, consistent data, enabling efficient supplier assessments and legal compliance.
Result
With Worldfavor's platform, Adlibris has been able to engage with suppliers globally, gather standardized data on crucial ESG metrics, and monitor the performance and risks of their suppliers, allowing Adlibris to work consistently toward their sustainability goals.
Challenges
Adlibris faced several challenges in ramping up the company’s sustainability efforts. Outdated and inconsistent data from the supply chain made it difficult for Adlibris to meet the objectives that were defined in their renewed sustainability strategy, and suppliers’ different levels of knowledge about ESG topics made it difficult to collect relevant data. Gaining satisfactory answers to the questions that Adlibris asked suppliers had become nearly impossible.
Additionally, lacking the technical infrastructure to collect and store data would have forced Adlibris to manage data collection manually, using emails, spreadsheets, or internally developed questionnaires.
Some of the main challenges Adlibris was faced with:
Unharmonized ESG data collection and a lack of standardized data sets, requiring Adlibris to create their own questions and data sets, which was time-consuming and led to reporting fatigue.
Lack of accurate sustainability data from suppliers.
Outdated documentation.
Difficulty obtaining consistent data from suppliers.
Varying levels of sustainability maturity among suppliers, making data access challenging.
No technical infrastructure for efficient data management.
Adlibris sought a solution to streamline supplier engagement and gain insights into their global supply chain, aligning with the company’s sustainability strategy and meeting legal requirements, including compliance with Åpenhetsloven, the Norwegian Supply Chain Due Diligence Act, due to their operations in Norway. Adlibris also wanted to manage their supplier code of conduct in an efficient manner.
It requires them to implement and carry out a due diligence process in line with the OECD guidelines, publish an annual report on due diligence strategies, and be transparent toward consumers about potential and actual adverse impacts in the supply chain.
Some of the needs Adlibris had identified were:
Collecting, tracking, and analyzing ESG data from the supply chain in an efficient and secure manner to enable long-term improvements.
Understanding their suppliers’ sustainability baseline and performance.
Staying on par with legal sustainability requirements, such as Åpenhetsloven, the Norwegian due diligence act.
Enabling suppliers with adequate information and tools to share required information in an orderly manner.
Solution
Worldfavor was chosen as a vendor thanks to the intuitive platform and transparent and attentive approach of Worldfavor’s experts with good understanding of Adlibris’ challenges. Worldfavor’s Sustainable Sourcing solution helps Adlibris address the challenges the company faced regarding supplier engagement and procurement data needs. The best-practice setup of standardized data questionnaires helps Adlibris streamline data collection, ensuring that they ask for relevant information from the supply chain and receive answers in the right format, ready to be analyzed and exported.
Worldfavor helps Adlibris to assess suppliers and conduct automated risk analyses, making it easy for the company to pinpoint where action is needed and which suppliers are subject to potential human rights, environmental, or governance risks.
Worldfavor's standardized questionnaires streamline data collection, ensuring relevant information is shared in the right format for analyzing data
In addition to providing the technical infrastructure for collecting and analyzing data, Worldfavor recognizes the crucial need to support suppliers who may lack sophisticated tools or knowledge about ESG topics. The platform offers guidance and provides an intuitive environment to share data, enabling suppliers to understand and share the required sustainability data with Adlibris in a consistent format in a platform that’s easy to use and offers them guidance on sustainability topics.
Result
Worldfavor empowers you with the essential tools to identify the impacts of your supply chain, giving you insights to conduct an informed double materiality assessment. Access key data in line with the ESRS standards to understand risks and opportunities, and take smart action to improve your sustainability, and excel in your CSRD reporting!
