Delivering sustainability transparency
In a world where sustainability metrics will become THE decision criteria for consumers, ConnexSA offers a sustainability transparency solution throughout global supply chains – creating a sustainability 'currency' that will allow responsible producers to achieve an economic premium for their sustainable products
Our vision
An end-to-end real-time solution
Climate change is accelerating, and we all need to do more and take more coordinated action to tackle it.
Today, almost 60% of consumers in Europe and the US look for information about a brand’s sustainability when deciding whether or not to buy it.¹
In the near-term future, as climate change accelerates, sustainability value (not economic value or price) will become THE decision criteria for consumers.
The problem is the availability of real-time, traceable and transparent sustainability data throughout the supply chain – and the lack of a sustainability 'currency'.
Increasing regulation, and the requirements for product certification and digital product passports, also means that an automated, real-time digital solution is needed to seamlessly connect all participants, end-to-end, throughout supply chains.
These challenges require an independent digital data platform that provides secure, real-time, consistent, standardised and verified sustainability data and other metrics – available to ALL supply chain stakeholders.
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¹Statista Sustainable Behaviour Report 2022, The Economist ‘An Eco Awakening’ Report, Morning Consult, Capgemini Research Institute
About ConnexSA
In today’s conventional supply chains, it is generally only possible to trace data from primary (Tier-1) suppliers
End-users or consumers are typically unable to trace or verify all sources of supply chain data, particularly around the sustainability metrics of a product.
Data is typically static (not real-time or dynamic) and often requires multiple manual interfaces to collect and store the data at different levels within the supply chain.
This creates data integrity issues, requires a lot of time and administrative effort, and risks mistakes or inconsistencies.
ConnexSA solves this problem and defines the future
Industry agnostic digital solution – a global solution to help solve a global problem
Fully traceable, transparent and verified – building trust
Real-time, consistent and secure – setting THE standard for Scope 3 disclosures
Independent and available to ALL
ConnexSA is the backbone to create the sustainability 'currency' of the future.
Features
Transparent
There is a lack of end-to-end transparency in conventional supply chains. ConnexSA offers full traceability throughout the supply chain from raw materials to the end consumer.
Integrated ecosystem
ConnexSA offers full integration of sustainability verifiers and assurance throughout the ecosystem.
Regulation compliant
Regulatory adaptation takes time and typically requires different solutions. ConnexSA offers a regulation compliance solution that is integrated with digital product passports and other regulatory certification.
Secure
ConnexSA offers decentralised security governance through Blockchain and encrypted data structure with wallet access. Only participants with the appropriate access authorisations can access different types of data.
Easy to adapt
ConnexSA enables full integration with enterprise resource planning tools, making it easy to adapt from existing systems.
Easy to operate
ConnexSA operates as a service and provides easy-to-use monitoring screens to track sustainability data movements.
Who we are
ConnexSA is a standalone not-for-profit (NFP) organisation
All surplus funds stay within ConnexSA and are reinvested to further develop ConnexSA.
ConnexSA is governed by an independent Advisory Board consisting of industry players, ESG assurance partners, sustainability leaders, digital entrepreneurs and technology providers.
Our organisation drives innovation and change – we are agile and creative, with a digital and collaborative mindset – building solutions to solve today’s challenges as well as anticipating those of tomorrow.
Alan Knight
Board Member
Jeremy Warrick
Board Member
Francis Sullivan
Chair & Board Member
Roberto Carton
CEO
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How to be part of ConnexSA
If you would like to join ConnexSA and help change the world, there are various ways you can get involved.
Key industry players
We would like key industry players to become sponsors of ConnexSA.
Initially consumers of chemical products within the soda ash supply chain such as glass manufacturers, powdered detergents, lithium producer etc.
Subsequently, we expect tier 1 and tier 2 suppliers of raw materials - and other participants across other supply chains - to also join.
Key partners
We are open to any partnership that will support ConnexSA.
Associations: local and international industry associations.
ESG verifiers and consultants: companies specialised in sustainability assurance and policy.
Technology partners: consulting and technology firms.
Participants
We want to work with leaders in sustainability.
Early adopters: companies that are the sustainability leader in their industries.
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