Your cockpit: less admin, more strategy
How the supplier portal closes the loop and why the platform pays off from day 1.
We have learned that control saves money, contracts secure value and marketplaces create efficiency. But who keeps the data up to date?
View into the platform: The circle closes
The Supplier portal is the link to the outside world. Suppliers maintain their certificates themselves. At the same time, the Supplier (risk) management. It permanently monitors the supply chain for failures or ESG violations.
The genius: All data from parts 1-5 automatically flows 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 purchase in compliance with VSME.
| Cost factor | The manual way (Excel & e-mail) | The ZEROvia way (platform) |
| Collect data | 20 hrs. (e-mails, typing, error correction) | 2 hrs. (Automatic Intake & Portal) |
| Supplier check | 15 hrs. (Request certificates, check manually) | Automated (Self-disclosure in the portal) |
| Risk monitoring | Hardly possible (Reactive in case of problems) | Proactive (System warns of risk) |
| Create report | 10 hrs. (formatting, copy-paste) | 0.5 hrs. (Export at the touch of a button) |
| External consulting | approx. CHF 1’500.- (Often necessary for validation) | Included (process is VSME-compliant) |
| Total costs (year)* | > CHF 7’000.- (plus intransparency risk) | License fee + min. time required |
*Basis: Internal hourly rate CHF 100.
Conclusion
With ZEROvia you automate bureaucracy. You meet customer requirements (ESG data), reduce risks and optimize purchase prices. Sustainability that finances itself.