ESGHall

Overview

WNS-Vuram’s ESGHall solution helps organizations achieve their ESG strategic goals and manage all aspects of an organization's journey to net zero objectives through automation. It leverages a unique blend of the latest technology and hyperautomation to overcome business challenges in managing and reporting on ESG.
The highly connected Ai enabled ESG suite covers all aspects of an organization's strategy and provides powerful insights into internal and external stakeholders, employees, customers and vendors , assess the risks, opportunities and build sustainable supply chains.

• Inaccuracy and errors in manual process - Manually entering ESG data, managing it in spreadsheets, and creating reports is a time-consuming and challenging task. ESGHall simplifies these manual tasks through low-code automation, improving accuracy by eliminating errors
• Evolving regulations - Today, ESG regulations across the globe are becoming more stringent, and they are changing at a fast pace. ESGHall helps your enterprise to keep up with regulatory standards by automating ESG tasks, simplifying reporting with pre-built templates and adapting to the changing regulations quickly.
• Complex ESG Data Management - Managing complex structured and unstructured data is one of the biggest hurdles in ESG assessments, disclosures, and reporting. Often data is stuck in siloes across the business organization in different tools and systems. ESGHall centralizes the data and provides an orchestrated view.
• Disconnect processes - Non transparent processes with lack of insights and audits leading to non-compliance, accountability issues and overall inefficiency ESGHall improves the operational efficiencies and auditability to achieve the goals with guided workflows.

Key Features & Functionality

ESGHALL suite powered by Appian has multiple modules:

1. ESGHALL- Customer
   The solution assists customer relationship managers in independent verification/ due diligence of the institutional customers during the first time onboarding process or during the ongoing due diligence in collaboration with the ESG team . It provides better visibility of the customer ESG risks, allocating time and resources to mitigate these risks.
2. ESGHALL - Vendor
   The solution facilitates ESG team in assessing the vendors/suppliers in terms of their ESG practices , strategies and how they are doing w.r.t carbon emissions to identify the vendor / third party risks and alignment to their organization to formulate sourcing strategies and identify the opportunities to work with suppliers to reduce the risks and be compliant.
3. ESGHALL - Employee
   The solution enables the ESG team to harness the ESG culture internally by appraising the ESG goals, strategies and initiatives so that employees can contribute to the ideas / volunteer for initiatives driving the innovation. It also helps to measure the employee carbon footprint which can help in scope 3 reporting.
4. ESGHALL - Sustainable Supply Chain
   The solution helps enterprises to follow sustainable supply chain framework end to end , mapping the suppliers, streamlining the data capture of supplier activities, identify the impacts, assess and manage the supplier ESG risks to build competencies and formulate supply chain strategies aligning to organization’s goals.

Some of the key features:

• Customizable assessments and workflows
• Automatic ESG assessment of vendors and customers
• Vendor and RM portals
• Review-case/ action plan management
• Ai enabled ScopeX emission data reporting using spend data
• Scope 3 data from Vendors
• Negative news alert management
• Track employee CO2 contribution
• Goals, ideas, and initiatives management
• Regulatory reporting templates
• Supplier compliance & document extraction
• Compare suppliers
• Operational insights

Benefits & Business Impact

Business Impact:

• Minimize supplier and customer risks through effective assessment and mitigation
• Effortlessly meet Regulatory Compliances and avoid penalties
• Transparency to meet the Investors, customers, and regulator's requirement
• Achieve ESG goals by standardizing ESG management with audit trials
• Reduce ever-increasing costs incurred by non-sustainable practices
• Win more business and attract investments

Business Benefits:

1. Accurate data: ESG management delivers more high-quality, accurate data to optimize risk management processes.
2. Identify opportunities: Enable top-line growth and identify more opportunities.
3. Cost-effectiveness: Reduce operating costs and increase profits.
4. Risk Strategies: Reduce risks by aligning the stakeholders
5. Competitive advantages: Be competitive in the market
6. Customer loyalty: Increase brand reputation and shareholder value
7. Compliance: Be compliant with regulations
8. Low-code: Realize ROIs quickly with low-code powered implementations
9. Insightful reporting: Transparent reporting, KPI management, and accelerated ESG goals

2022 Partner Solution Cup Europe Winner for the "Sustainable Supply Chain Management" module The Partner Solution Cup recognize the best solution submitted at our annual Partner Solutions Cup Europe competition