Your cockpit: less admin, more strategy
How the supplier portal closes the loop and why the platform pays for itself from day 1.
We have learned: control saves money, contracts secure value, marketplaces create efficiency. But who keeps the data up to date?
A look inside the platform: the loop closes
The supplier portal is the link to the outside world. Suppliers maintain their certificates themselves. At the same time, supplier (risk) management runs in the background. It monitors the supply chain continuously for failures or ESG breaches.
The clever part: all data from parts 1–5 flows automatically into your ESG reporting. One code. One data set.
The business case: Excel vs. ZEROvia
Many SMEs ask: "Is a tool worth it?" Here is the calculation for a typical SME (100 employees) that wants to report and buy in a VSME-compliant way.
| Cost factor | The manual route (Excel & e-mail) | The ZEROvia route (platform) |
| Collecting data | 20 h (e-mails, retyping, error correction) | 2 h (automatic intake & portal) |
| Supplier check | 15 h (request certificates, check manually) | Automated (self-assessment in the portal) |
| Risk monitoring | Hardly possible (reactive when problems arise) | Proactive (system warns of risk) |
| Creating the report | 10 h (formatting, copy-paste) | 0.5 h (export at the push of a button) |
| External consulting | approx. CHF 1,500 (often needed for validation) | Included (process is VSME-compliant) |
| Total costs (per year)* | > CHF 7,000 (plus transparency risk) | Licence fee + minimal time input |
*Basis: internal hourly rate CHF 100
Conclusion
With ZEROvia you automate the paperwork. You meet customer requests (ESG data), reduce risks and optimise purchasing prices. Sustainability that pays for itself.
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