Crown Commercial Services Partnership with Achilles: Your Gateway to Streamlined Supplier Assurance
The Crown Commercial Service partnership with Achilles provides a gateway to streamlined risk assurance and continuous improvement.
The Crown Commercial Service partnership with Achilles provides a gateway to streamlined risk assurance and continuous improvement.
CCS provides support to contracting authorities across the UK. As part of that support CCS has a responsibility to continually risk assess the suppliers that are part of their procurement frameworks both at the point of approval and on an ongoing basis.
Achilles is proud to partner with CCS to enhance supply chain transparency, risk management, and compliance. This initiative is aimed at fostering social value, reducing emissions, promoting equality, and ensuring a supply chain free from modern slavery.
Supplier assurance forms an integral part of CCS’ and Contracting Authorities supply chain due diligence and sustainability commitments. The Achilles platform provides a simple way of providing the data and documents needed to achieve and then maintain your status as an approved supplier.
By registering you benefit from saving time in providing your details once which can then be viewed by private sector buyers across the UK, Europe and beyond who are looking to work with high quality suppliers through one easy streamlined process.
“The main benefit for us since joining has been the steady flow of opportunities. I feel it has helped us increase our presence in the space significantly”
“We see strong growth among our suppliers that are supported by Achilles.”
“Achilles audits have helped us identify gaps in our business and improve processes globally.”
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Suppliers who join Achilles are able to view and apply for tenders and are in a database searched by leading organisations in your industry sector. Suppliers will only be required to input data once, and then it will be visible not only to all the relevant teams within CCS, but also to any of the contracting authorities taking part, increasing transparency and removing duplication.
Suppliers who join Achilles enjoy huge time saving and ultimately reduced costs across several areas including procurement and health and safety. Maintain and manage business-critical supporting documentation such as certificates and policies maintained and managed in one central secure location. • Achilles will support you to provide required data in a simplified process, allowing you to reduce time spent completing paper-based assurances and giving you access to your data 24/7.
Achilles in-depth data validation and extensive audit services enables you to demonstrate superior supplier credentials. Through one easy to use system gain access to your ESG and financial scorecard specific to your business, demonstrating how your sustainability credentials compare to others, for your internal use or sharing with your customers, to drive continuous improvement.
Buying decisions have the power to create a fairer and more sustainable society. We are committed to maximising social value, reducing emissions, promoting equality and diversity and ensuring the UK public sector supply chain is free from modern slavery.
Contact the Achilles team if you have anymore questions or are ready to get started.