More sustainable, more competitive:here is the platform that can help companies – The interview

Stefano Fasani tells Open how “Open-es” works, the platform that unites the business, financial and institutional world to measure and improve the sustainability of supply chains

Connecting business, environment and people.A challenge that is increasingly at the top of the agendas of entrepreneurs and managers.He comes to their rescue Open-es, the free platform open to all types of businesses that helps measure and improve ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) performance.All within one community in which companies collaborate in the name of sustainability and competitiveness.«The protection of the environment and people is an objective that no organization can think of achieving alone.It is a systemic challenge, which can only be addressed in an effective and concrete manner by uniting the forces of all market players", this is how Stefano Fasani, head of Open-Es, explains to Open what is the platform's approach.An alliance that unites large supply chain leaders, banks, associations and institutions in order to support all companies, especially small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), with concrete tools to create a production system that is both sustainable and competitive.

What it is and how it works

The Open-es platform is a concrete solution for growing on sustainability issues,
allowing all companies to measure ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) performance.That is, the three fundamental dimensions that are used to verify the commitment in terms of sustainability of a company or organization.So why is Open-es useful?For two needs:on the one hand to measure and improve the ESG profile of your company and, on the other, to involve and analyze your suppliers and customers.

Through Open-es every company can measure its ESG profile and obtain a plan
improvement and identify possible solutions to fill the most relevant gaps.«A guided tour,
with simple gradual steps and accompanied by many training elements", says Fasani.«Because – he adds – we want all companies to feel involved, taking one concrete step at a time, aware of the value that this issue has for their own future, and not just because they are forced
by regulations.Furthermore, the underlying data model is nothing invented, but is based on international standards, such as Stakeholder Capitalism Metrics from the World Economic Forum and the new European EFRAG models being made official."In this way, companies obtain an aligned and recognized ESG identity.

Institutional and neutral help

Today, verifying the ESG maturity of its customers and suppliers and contributing to its improvement is a requirement of every modern financial, insurance and industrial institution.And these companies can find complete help in Open-es, which allows them to achieve the supply chain sustainability objectives in a virtuous and collaborative way by offering all their stakeholders a free tool aimed at developing the entire business system.«Open-es wants to represent an institutional and neutral enabler for sustainability objectives along the value chains – explains Fasani – to allow us to connect the highest number of entities interested in collaborating on these objectives, respecting the freedom and autonomy of everyone in evaluation logics and internal processes".

Sustainable business development, is it possible?

Looking at the current market, the development of a sustainable business is now an obligatory path for companies.Just think of the increasingly significant weight that the ESG component is playing in the choices of employees, customers, finance and investors.In short, all the key players in a company's business.It is no coincidence, in fact, that there are currently already 12,500 companies that have joined the Open-es community.Numbers destined to grow, also considering the partnership of important companies such as Eni, UniCredit, TIM, Iveco Group, Snam, Engineering, Baker Hughes, Autostrade per l'Italia, Saipem, Q8 or Webuild.«We are investing a lot to provide companies with training and concrete tools», Fasani is keen to underline.«In particular – he concludes -, we are focusing on the dimension of Governance, which represents the real key to building the future of your company by combining business, environment and people».