Earthshine Solutions Ltd services

We have developed a holistic model and toolkit to help our customers get to grips with what sustainability means to them, what their impact is and what they can do to become more sustainable.Our model recognises that most organisations still need to meet the usual range of commercial challenges, and so our approach has been developed to truly integrate sustainability, business best practice and the “bottom line” to enable our customers.

Winning new business is a significant challenge; customers are becoming more and more demanding, wanting the best service and products possible at the most competitive price. At the same time competition is increasing, as companies are innovating and striving to win the “big prize” contracts arising from the widespread practice of longer-term “partnering” or collaborative customer/buyer relationships.

Many organisations are starting to develop an understanding of the various sustainability impacts they have, directly as an organisation and also through their supply chains and their influence on customers and markets.They are also under pressure to continually strive and improve the efficiency of their operations in order to improve margins and keep pace with competitive drivers in their markets.

Many organisations have a high proportion of goods and services that are “bought-in”. The supply chain therefore represents a significant challenge and an opportunity in both commercial and sustainability terms.We have developed a best practice procurement & supply chain management toolkit that fully integrates sustainability and commercial considerations.

We recognise there is a need for our customers to understand their total sustainability impact, before they can make good decisions about where to prioritise their efforts to make the best impact. Furthermore, on the basis of “what gets measured gets done”, we see measurement as a fundamental enabler to making sure the right things happen.So what are the right things? There has certainly been much consideration of climate change, particularly carbon, during the last couple of years, but sustainability is much wider than any single, albeit important issue. What about social impacts, other environmental issues, biodiversity and waste? How do we integrate all of these concerns within the economic perspective?

Sustainability or CR Reporting is becoming an increasingly important requirement for organisations; investors, customers and other stakeholders are becoming more discerning about what and who they become involved with. And rightly so.While many organisations wish to appear as “green” as they can, our aim is to help our customers develop a robust approach to reporting and managing their total sustainability impact to make a real difference.

That we have to become sustainable is not really the issue, but there is a need to ensure we make wise investments: what solution is the most appropriate for our situation, how much should we invest and how can we capture the resulting benefits?Our holistic business case toolkit enables our customers to understand the total cost of ownership, as well as the full range of benefits available, to help them optimise their investment decisions and maximise the benefits delivered.