Foodsteps Supplier Hub: Accurately Report Supplier Decarbonisation
We've spent years helping some of the UK's largest food businesses engage key suppliers for emissions data to improve reporting accuracy. We've continuously refined our approach to make it structured and straightforward for suppliers, while ensuring our partners can meet stringent reporting standards. Now, we're scaling that expertise to the wider market with the launch of Foodsteps Supplier Hub, enabling businesses to efficiently collect, validate and analyse primary data across thousands of suppliers and products.
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Today, even the most forward-thinking food businesses are struggling to demonstrate sufficient progress against their climate targets.
This is not due to lack of ambition. With 70-85% of emissions sitting in the supply chain, many businesses are implementing plans to engage their suppliers. They hear from suppliers about real decarbonisation work happening in their supply chains. But they're not seeing this work reflected in their reporting.
The persistent problem is access to primary supplier data. Teams spend hours manually sending surveys and chasing suppliers. Data arrives in inconsistent formats, uses different methodologies, and often requires third-party review before it's usable.
At Foodsteps, we've spent years helping some of the UK's largest food businesses engage key suppliers for emissions data to improve reporting accuracy. We've continuously refined our approach to make it structured and straightforward for suppliers, while ensuring our partners can meet stringent reporting standards.
Now, we're scaling that expertise to the wider market with the launch of Foodsteps Supplier Hub, enabling businesses to efficiently collect, validate and analyse primary data across thousands of suppliers and products.
By turning manual, ad hoc engagement into a repeatable and scalable process, food businesses can accurately capture supplier decarbonisation efforts in Scope 3 reporting and accelerate reductions.
Over the coming weeks, we'll share more about our first partnerships and how the platform works. But here's a brief overview of the key capabilities Supplier Hub unlocks and the benefits of engaging suppliers with Foodsteps.
Key capabilities
Prioritise suppliers for engagement
Send simple surveys to assess supplier sustainability readiness and data availability. Identify priority suppliers to reach out to based on their materiality to your emissions and survey results.
Collect primary data
Invite suppliers to share product assessments (LCAs, PCFs) and supporting evidence through guided workflows - with structured questions to confirm methodology and data quality. Foodsteps handles any necessary follow-up to minimise burden on both you and your suppliers.
Ensure methodological and standards alignment
Supplier data varies in quality across the industry. We review every data point for methodological consistency, fill gaps where needed, and ensure all data is credible, complies with relevant standards, and is comparable across your supply chain.
Use accurate primary data in Scope 3 reporting
Incorporate verified primary emissions factors into your Greenhouse Gas (GHG) inventory to bank supplier decarbonisation efforts in your Scope 3 assessments.
The benefits of engaging suppliers with Foodsteps
- Accelerate progress – Capture existing reductions in your supply chain, and use granular emissions insights to prioritise the most impactful actions.
- Meet suppliers where they are - Minimise resource demands and encourage participation with simple workflows and expert support. Suppliers gain high-quality data for their own reporting and commercial advantage.
- Increase efficiency - Automate data collection and analysis, freeing your team to focus on reduction initiatives rather than manual data management.
- Inform procurement decisions - Help sourcing teams monitor risks, build resilience, and improve decision-making with reliable supply chain emissions insights.
- Build disclosure confidence – Ensure data can withstand audit with expert validation, version history, and data quality scoring.
We built Supplier Hub to help our partners accurately report and accelerate supply chain decarbonisation.
But by streamlining operations, building stronger supplier relationships, and enabling greater supply chain visibility, we're ultimately helping them turn that progress into competitive advantage.
If you'd like to see the platform or talk through how Foodsteps could support your supplier engagement goals, book a call with our team.
