Think Green Initiative (TGI)
Demonstrate environmental best practice by ensuring your supply chain’s sustainability performance is aligned to your sustainability goals.
Intertek SAI Global’s Think Green Initiative (TGI) supply chain risk management program identifies and evaluates critical metrics, innovative technologies, and best practices that enhance environmental performance. These include areas such as management systems, greenhouse gas emissions, energy and water efficiency, waste minimisation, hazardous substances management, and product lifecycle impact.
The program enables organisations to engage with their sites and suppliers to demonstrate and implement sustainable environmental best practices within their operations and drive continuous improvement.
Prepare your suppliers to mature their environmental management systems and contribute to your environmental and greenhouse gas scope 3 reporting.
Key Benefits
Cost Reduction
Enhanced Material Efficiency
Best Practice in Green Supply Chains
Meet Your ISO 14001 Requirements in Supply Chain Management
Track and Manage Scope 3 Emissions
Access reliable, complete and actionable data
Strengthen CRFD Compliance
Benchmarking & Insights
Future-Readiness
With Intertek SAI Global’s web-based platform and unmatched environmental expertise, Intertek’s Think Green Initiative provides a seamless solution for assessing, monitoring, and improving factory-level environmental performance.
Contact our Sustainability experts today to understand how the Think Green Initiative can enhance your operations.
Frequently Asked Questions
TGI is a supply chain risk management program designed to help businesses improve their own and their suppliers’ environmental performance by identifying, assessing, and monitoring various aspects of operations such as greenhouse gas emissions, energy and water usage, waste generation, hazardous substances, and product life cycles.
TGI goes beyond ISO 14001 compliance by focusing on achieving measurable environmental benefits, fostering sustainable practices, and supporting businesses in aligning with their sustainability goals, while providing deeper insights into environmental governance maturity and performance year-on-year.
TGI is ideal for businesses, especially those with complex supply chains, looking to enhance their environmental impact and meet sustainability benchmarks. This includes suppliers and facilities striving for optimal resource management, compliance with environmental regulations, and recognition as a green manufacturer.
TGI assists businesses by:
- Offering insights into environmental performance metrics
- Highlighting opportunities to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, waste, and water use
- Identifying gaps within your suppliers’ environmental management systems, ensuring they are on a journey of continuous improvement.
- Providing tools to improve material efficiency through recycling and reuse
- Helping adopt sustainable business practices and compliance with green regulations
- Enhancing visibility and accountability across the supply chain.
TGI delivers both environmental and business advantages, which include:
- Reduced environmental footprint and operational costs
- Improved efficiency through sustainable resource management
- Alignment with regulatory requirements
- Saves time and cost by leveraging globally recognised audit criteria, tools, and a network of experts in 65+ countries – allowing you to focus on taking action, not just conducting audits. Enhanced stakeholder trust by showcasing robust environmental credentials
- Strengthened competitive position in a world of increased sustainability focus and disclosure requirements.
TGI is designed for diverse industries with complex supply chains, including manufacturing, retail, aerospace, automotive, food, and medical industries. Any company seeking a structured approach to environmental sustainability can benefit from TGI.
Through Intertek SAI Global’s End-to-End Supply Chain Assurance solution, TGI enables businesses to:
- Identify high-risk suppliers
- Benchmark supplier environmental performance
- Conduct sustainability training and capacity building
- Improve transparency and accountability across supply chains.
The Think Green Initiative program evaluates and reviews:
- Management systems related to environmental sustainability
- Greenhouse gas emissions and energy efficiency
- Use of resources like water and hazardous substances
- Waste reduction and recycling practices
- Life cycle assessments for product sustainability.
By improving resource efficiency and adopting green manufacturing processes, TGI helps reduce operational costs. Sustainable practices such as recycling, reuse, and waste management further aid in cutting costs while enhancing overall productivity.
Yes! Intertek’s TGI program empowers businesses to meet high environmental standards, which are increasingly valued by customers, investors, and regulators. By adopting Intertek SAI Global’s TGI Audit Program, companies can position themselves as green leaders in their industry, earn preferred supplier status, and build trust with stakeholders.
Intertek SAI Global’s Think Green Initiative Audit Program utilises our SMART web-based platform to track and evaluate environmental metrics across supply chains. The platform provides clear insights, continuous improvement plans and actionable data to help businesses drive continuous improvement in sustainability.
When combined with Intertek SAI Global’s Inlight end-to-end risk management, you go beyond the already powerful web-based reports to visualise audit data, dive into insights and combine results from your Thank Green Initiative audits performed across the world to track progress, and achieve high level and deep dive analytics across findings to help you find information fast and identify key actions quickly and efficiently.