IT and EcoVadis: How Responsible Digital Improves Your CSR Score

The EcoVadis assessment has become a must for companies that want to demonstrate their CSR commitment to customers and partners. While CSR departments are naturally on the front line, the IT department now plays a major strategic role in achieving a good score. Why? Because responsible digital represents a concrete and measurable lever for action across several pillars of the assessment, notably the environment and governance.

To achieve EcoVadis compliance, IT managers must be involved from the outset to collect evidence and structure data. A successful assessment depends on close collaboration between the CSR manager and the technical teams.

Responsible Digital is no longer optional, but a major strategic issue that will carry increasing weight in future assessments.
This article explores the five IT areas assessed by EcoVadis and gives you concrete ideas for turning your IT infrastructure into a CSR asset.

1. Reducing the energy consumption of IT infrastructure

The energy consumption of IT infrastructure is a significant source of emissions for companies. EcoVadis assesses organizations' ability to measure and reduce this consumption, particularly in data centers, servers and network equipment.

The actions EcoVadis expects

• Measuring consumption: implementing energy monitoring tools (PUE, Power Usage Effectiveness)
• Optimizing data centers: virtualization, efficient cooling, shutting down unused servers
• Migrating to responsible cloud: choosing providers committed to renewable energy

Proof in numbers

As Act For Now explains in their practical guide for very small businesses and SMEs, a simple statement of intent is not enough. EcoVadis expects precise KPIs over several years: changes in consumption in kWh, percentage reduction, share of renewable energy used.

2. Improving energy efficiency through technology modernization

Replacing obsolete hardware with more efficient equipment is a powerful lever for reducing the carbon footprint of your IT fleet. EcoVadis rewards investments in less energy-intensive technologies.

Concrete solutions with Leasetic

Leasetic offers evolutive leasing solutions that enable companies to regularly modernize their IT fleet without tying up capital. This approach offers several advantages for your EcoVadis score:

• Access to the latest generations of equipment: low-energy PCs, servers and peripherals
• Controlled renewal: leasing cycles designed to keep your fleet performing well
• Traceability of energy gains: documentation of the savings achieved by changing hardware

Formalizing the approach

We recommend not relying solely on the purchase or leasing invoice. To maximize your score, formalize your IT modernization policy in an official document setting out your energy selection criteria and your reduction targets.

3. Refurbishment and internal reuse of IT equipment

The circular economy applied to IT is a criterion that EcoVadis scrutinizes more and more closely. The ability to extend the lifespan of equipment, refurbish it or reassign it internally demonstrates responsible resource management.

Leasetic's circular approach

Leasetic builds the logic of reuse and refurbishment into its leasing offers:

• Recovery and refurbishment: equipment at the end of its contract is refurbished for a second life
• Easier internal reassignment: the option to extend the lease or redirect equipment to other departments
• Full traceability: lifecycle tracking for each device to support your actions with EcoVadis

Documenting your practices

It is essential to formalize your end-of-life procedure for IT equipment. This document should detail:

• The process for collecting used equipment
• The criteria for reuse or recycling
• The partners involved (refurbishers, certified recyclers)
• The volumes processed each year

4. Environmental criteria in supplier selection

EcoVadis assesses your ability to integrate CSR criteria into the selection of your IT providers: cloud providers, PC and server manufacturers, web hosts, etc.

A CSR cascade effect

By choosing committed IT partners, you:

• Strengthen your own score
• Meet your customers' expectations
• Help spread good practices across your value chain

The criteria to include

• Environmental certifications: ISO 14001, energy labels, carbon neutrality commitments
• Data center location: favor infrastructure powered by renewable energy
• End-of-life policy: guarantees for equipment take-back and recycling
• Transparency: access to environmental impact data

With Leasetic, you benefit from a partner already attuned to sustainability issues, which makes it easier to document your responsible purchasing.

5. Reporting: the key to EcoVadis success

Reporting is probably the most underestimated aspect of the EcoVadis assessment. Without quantified, historical data, even the best IT initiatives will not be reflected in your score.

What EcoVadis concretely expects

• Volume of recycled equipment: number of devices collected, weight in tons, recovery rate
• Energy consumption: year-on-year change, share of renewable energy
• Utilization rate: fleet optimization (number of active vs. idle devices)
• IT training: raising team awareness of responsible digital best practices

Colibris.app: your reporting ally

Colibris.app is a CSR management solution that lets you centralize and automate your IT indicators for the EcoVadis assessment:

• Custom dashboards: real-time tracking of your IT and environmental KPIs
• Data history: evidence retained over several years
• Automated exports: reports generated in line with EcoVadis requirements
• Easier collaboration: data sharing between IT, CSR and management

With Colibris, you turn the chore of reporting into a smooth process and make sure you never miss an opportunity to showcase your IT actions.

Conclusion: IT, a strategic pillar of your EcoVadis approach

Responsible digital is no longer a niche topic reserved for large tech companies. It is a strategic lever available to all organizations, whatever their size, to significantly improve their EcoVadis score.

The five IT areas we have explored (energy reduction, modernization, reuse, responsible purchasing and reporting) form a solid foundation for demonstrating your environmental commitment in a concrete and measurable way.

To make this transformation a success:

• Work closely together across IT, CSR and management
• Formalize your practices in official documents (policies, procedures)
• Measure and track your actions systematically with the right tools
• Choose committed partners such as Leasetic to optimize your IT fleet and Colibris.app to manage your indicators

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Want to tackle EcoVadis with confidence? Nothing beats an expert's eye to maximize your chances. Act For Now is there to support you, from defining your strategy right through to assessment day. 

Responsible Digital will continue to gain importance in assessments. Anticipating now means turning a regulatory constraint into a genuine competitive advantage.

To learn more: discover how revaluation and reverse logistics structure our CSR approach, and how Device as a Service (DaaS) can accelerate the responsible modernization of your IT fleet.

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