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CSDDD & Omnibus: Navigating Compliance in a Changing Landscape
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How IntegrityNext Helps Automotive Sustainability
The automotive industry has a significant ecological footprint and relies heavily on upstream value creation. Key concerns include greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, the extensive sourcing of conflict minerals like cobalt and lithium, environmental pollution, and associated human rights risks.
We help you manage the key sustainability risks in your supply chain and unlock opportunities for greater efficiency, impact, and long-term value.
Automotive Industry Leaders Trust IntegrityNext
We Understand & Solve Your Industry’s Challenges
Our solutions cover the topics most material to your industry, enabling you to meet legal requirements and boost sustainability performance.
Managing Upstream Supply Chain Risks
The automotive industry's lower-tier supply chains are rife with environmental and social challenges, including deforestation, hazardous chemicals, and poor labor conditions. ESG tech solutions can help monitor and address risks in material sourcing for components like steel, aluminum, glass, rubber, and leather, ensuring responsible practices and regulatory compliance.
Ensuring Ethical Sourcing of Critical Materials
The demand for critical minerals like cobalt, lithium, nickel, and manganese is surging with the rise of electric vehicles. These materials often come with risks of child labor, water stress, and pollution. Supply chain sustainability software enables due diligence, ensuring responsible sourcing and adherence to human rights standards.
Addressing the Carbon Footprint of Automotive Manufacturing
Vehicle production is energy- and resource-intensive, driving emissions throughout the value chain. Automotive companies can leverage ESG platforms to track and reduce carbon emissions, implement resource-efficient practices, and align with regulatory decarbonization targets.
Adapting to Regulatory Pressures
Global regulations on vehicle emissions and sustainable manufacturing are tightening, driven by initiatives such as EU exhaust standards, zero-emissions targets for new vehicles, and circularity requirements. ESG solutions help automotive companies maintain compliance, streamline reporting, and prepare for future legislative changes.
Enabling Sustainable Innovation Across the Value Chain
The shift to alternative powertrain technologies like electric vehicles opens opportunities for sustainable innovation. ESG tools can support companies in designing greener products, reducing value chain emissions, and driving positive environmental and social impacts.
Solutions Designed to Meet Your Needs
Our platform offers a comprehensive suite of sustainability solutions to meet your industry needs. Combining the world’s largest sustainable supply chain network, AI-powered insights and automation, and built-in ESG expertise covering over 40 topics, we ensure that your sustainability efforts are tailored to your industry - giving you a competitive edge and driving meaningful impact.
Supply Chain Due Diligence
The automotive industry faces significant risks in lower-tier supply chains, especially in raw material sourcing for components like cobalt, lithium, mica, and natural rubber. These risks include child labor, hazardous chemicals, and environmental degradation. Our solutions ensure compliance with regulations like the EU’s CSDDD by addressing ESG risks and enabling responsible sourcing through robust due diligence and real-time supplier insights.
Sustainability Reporting
As the automotive industry accelerates its shift toward zero-emission goals and sustainable manufacturing, reporting is critical for tracking ecological impacts and meeting the requirements of frameworks such as the CSRD and GRI. We simplify the reporting process by providing audit-ready ESG data, enabling you to measure and showcase your decarbonization progress while aligning with customer and regulatory expectations for transparency.
Carbon Emissions & Decarbonization
With upstream activities like material processing, battery manufacturing, and vehicle production accounting for the bulk of the industry’s carbon footprint, decarbonizing supply chains is a top priority. We provide tools to monitor and reduce Scope 3 emissions, supporting compliance with frameworks like the EU’s CBAM and helping automotive companies achieve net-zero goals.
Deforestation & Biodiversity
Automotive supply chains involve materials like natural rubber and leather, which are often tied to deforestation and biodiversity loss. Our platform solutions promote sustainable practices by ensuring traceability and compliance with regulations like the EUDR, mitigating environmental risks and fostering responsible upstream sourcing.
Multi-Tier Supply Chain Visibility
Achieving visibility across multi-tier supply chains is essential for managing risks and ensuring compliance in the automotive sector. Our pioneering AI-driven solutions help you monitor lower-tier suppliers, mitigate environmental and social risks, and build resilient and sustainable value chains.
Product & Material Compliance
Compliance with regulations on harmful chemicals, such as REACH and RoHS, and rules on conflict minerals, such as the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act, is critical for safe and sustainable vehicle manufacturing. Our platform streamlines compliance processes, ensuring you can meet complex regulatory requirements while reducing risks tied to hazardous substances and unethical sourcing.
Customer Case
Dräxlmaier
Dräxlmaier
Setting up sustainable supply chains to prepare for the Supply Chain Act
“IntegrityNext allows us to create transparency and better monitor and evaluate our suppliers with regard to key sustainability and compliance aspects. With IntegrityNext we also fulfill the core elements of the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act.”
Kristina Haibel
Specialist Procurement Sustainability
Objective
As a direct supplier to premium car manufacturers such as Audi, BMW, Jaguar Landrover, Mercedes-Benz, Porsche and Tesla, Dräxlmaier must meet high sustainability standards for its entire supply chain.
The company needed a solution to evaluate exisiting and potential suppliers regarding key sustainability and compliance topics as a basis for sourcing decisions and effective risk management, and to proactively prepare for the requirements of the German Supply Chain Act.
How IntegrityNext Helps
Dräxlmaier uses the IntegrityNext assessments to collect sustainability data and LkSG relevant information from its suppliers in a standardized way.
The IntegrityNext status and the Code of Conduct form the S-Check for each supplier. It is queried and automatically displayed in S/4HANA, allowing Dräxlmaier to easily see where action is necessary.
The IntegrityNext data is also integrated into the risk management system, enabling sustainability KPIs to be readily visible alongside financial and business KPIs.
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March 2025
How Integrity Next & SAP Help You Stay CSDDD-Compliant
Discover how IntegrityNext and SAP can help your business navigate CSDDD compliance effortlessly. Learn from experts and ensure your procurement and due diligence processes stay ahead of regulations!
Webinar
March 2025
Navigating CSDDD Compliance with Fugro
Join us for a timely webinar where industry experts from Fugro will share their proactive approach to CSDDD compliance.