To assist users in their review of Stibo Systems’ Sustainability Data Management solution documentation, a glossary of terms is included below:
Assessor – As an object, an assessor is a collection of one or more assessments. Functionally, assessors often represent an organization supplying external assessments.
Assessment – The assessment measures (both quantitatively and qualitatively) how a business object conforms to a set of criteria.
Compliance objects – A blanket term that includes frameworks, disclosures, criteria, assessments, and assessors.
Criteria / Criterion – Quantifiable data points that, when grouped together, make up an assessment. The criteria are the quantifiable means the solution uses to measure whether the Sustainability data card-linked object complies or does not comply with environmental, social, and governance (ESG) requirements.
Sustainability Data card – The Sustainability data card uses references to connect sustainability data together under one uniform object, the data card. The data card is, in turn, connected to a domain object like products, suppliers, locations, or external placeholders.
Because the solution is designed to overlay sustainability data onto existing implementations with minimal interference with already defined customer data models, the data card becomes the focal point for managing sustainability data associated with a product, supplier, or location.
Data cards reference one or more assessments. Additionally, data cards can also reference one another. For example, a product data card can reference a supplier data card.
ESG – An acronym that stands for environmental, social and governance
Reporting Framework – The ESG Reporting Framework anchors reports across the sustainability data. The reporting may include recognized sustainability standards and internally defined customer standards. The ESG framework is defined with several sub-levels. Assessments can be linked to any one of the sub-levels to indicate that the assessment supports the reporting parameters at that level. For more information, refer to the ESG Frameworks topic in this documentation.