CDQ Guards · Continuous ESG data quality
Make supplier ESG data continuously verifiable
ESG Guard turns fragmented, self-declared ESG compliance into an integrated, data-driven process — verifying certificates, enriching partner scorecards and continuously re-screening suppliers, with every attribute traceable to its source.
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ESG data grounded in authoritative sources
ESG Guard draws on recognized international benchmarks and certificate databases, so scorecards and checks rest on trusted, verifiable inputs.
- 195
countries and territories covered by the UNICEF Children's Rights in the Workplace Index in the Ethical Scorecard
- 0–100
the Corruption Perception Index scale, from highly corrupt to very clean, built into the Governance Scorecard
- 200,000+
farms across 135+ countries in the GLOBALG.A.P. certificate database referenced for Business Partner Certificates
CDQ Guards
What ESG Guard does
ESG Guard brings supplier and facility ESG data into one verifiable, continuously monitored layer — combining authoritative external sources, peer-shared assets and standardized scorecards in a single, API-first service.
Business Partner Certificates
Verify and manage supplier and facility certifications through a structured data model — name, number, issuing and accreditation body, issue and expiry dates, status, scope and geographical applicability — covering standards such as ISO 9001, 14001, 45001, 50001, 27001, 37001, 14064, FSSC 22000 and GFSI-recognized schemes.
Certification Alerts
Get alerted the moment a certificate is suspended, withdrawn or expired, so you can mitigate risk and keep a compliant supply chain rather than discovering gaps after the fact.
Ethical Scorecard
Enrich partner screening with ethical-risk signals for the screened subject's country, including UNICEF's Children's Rights in the Workplace (CRB) Index and Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index.
Governance Scorecard
Integrate the Corruption Perception Index, with a trend indicator, into the screening output as a distinct risk and decisioning section that supports risk-based onboarding and enhanced due diligence.
Continuous ESG risk screening
Automatically re-score suppliers whenever new ESG-relevant data arrives — not only at onboarding — flag material changes by threshold, keep per-supplier score history with change provenance, and surface flagged suppliers in a reviewer queue.
ESG data sharing
Share certificates, supplier codes of conduct and ESG ratings across CDQ's trusted network to cut duplicate verification effort and create network-wide visibility and best-practice learning.
Why CDQ ESG Guard
Not another questionnaire tool — a continuously monitored, verifiable ESG data layer built on CDQ's network.
Beyond manual questionnaires and audits
Conventional ESG work is reactive and siloed, spread across questionnaires, third-party audits and spreadsheets, and reliant on self-declaration. ESG Guard replaces it with authoritative external data, peer-shared assets and continuous monitoring.
One API-first platform, three trusted inputs
Authoritative external data, peer-shared ESG assets and standardized scorecards aligned to international benchmarks — unified and embeddable directly into procurement, onboarding and monitoring workflows.
Built on CDQ's data-sharing network
ESG certificates and ratings are reused across organizations through CDQ's established network and shared data model, rather than re-verified partner by partner.
Verifiable, explainable, traceable
Every ESG attribute traces to its origin with evidence, timestamps and change history; certificate provenance, validity windows and revocation checks are captured explicitly, so you can audit decisions and defend disclosures.
How ESG Guard works
From scoping your supplier portfolio to sharing verified ESG assets across the network — a continuous loop, not a one-off audit.
Configure scope
Define the in-scope supplier portfolios and the ESG data sources to watch, and enable checks per supplier segment or tier.
Setup
Verify & enrich
Source partner ESG attributes and certificates from trusted certification bodies and indices, validate them against standards, and enrich business-partner profiles with ESG identifiers, scorecards and metrics.
Monitor continuously
Continuously observe incoming ESG-relevant data, automatically re-score suppliers as new data arrives, and classify materiality to raise alerts for expiring or revoked certifications and for governance, environmental or social violations.
Always on
Act & prove
Reviewers decide on follow-up from a flagged-supplier queue; each score change and attribute stays traceable to its triggering data and time, providing audit-ready proof of due diligence.
Share & improve
With consent, share certificates, codes of conduct and ESG ratings across CDQ's network to reduce duplicate verification and drive network-wide improvement.
ESG Guard, answered
The questions master-data, procurement and compliance teams ask before they start.
What is ESG Guard?
ESG Guard is a CDQ Guard that makes business-partner ESG and sustainability data continuously reliable, verifiable and usable. It creates a unified data layer for supplier ESG compliance by combining authoritative external sources, peer-shared ESG assets and standardized scorecards — verifying certificates, enriching partner profiles and continuously re-screening suppliers so risk reflects reality rather than onboarding day.
Who is it for?
Enterprise risk and compliance teams monitoring for breaches and high-risk geographies, procurement teams needing early visibility into supplier ESG ratings during qualification, master-data managers wanting one trusted ESG source in business-partner records, and finance and data-science teams working with ESG risk and disclosures.
How does it integrate with SAP, ERP and our other systems?
ESG Guard is headless and API-first, built on a standardized data model, so real-time ESG data embeds directly into SAP MDG, ERP, CRM, MDM and portal workflows across procurement, onboarding, compliance and analytics. It runs on the CDQ Suite for Business Partners and works alongside the other CDQ Guards.
Do we stay in control of the data and decisions?
Yes. Insights are surfaced for review — never enforced — so your teams keep control and decide on follow-up actions. Every ESG attribute is traceable to its origin with evidence, timestamps and change history, giving you audit-ready proof of due diligence to defend your disclosures.
Where does the ESG data come from?
From trusted certification bodies and recognized indices — including IAF CertSearch and issuing-body certificate databases, GFSI-recognized food-safety schemes, eCertis, Transparency International's Corruption Perception Index and UNICEF's Children's Rights in the Workplace Index — plus, with consent, peer-shared ESG assets across CDQ's data-sharing network.
Book a demo
See ESG Guard on your supplier data
Book a demo with a CDQ expert and we'll show ESG Guard verifying certificates, enriching scorecards and re-screening suppliers against your own portfolio — and map how it fits your procurement, compliance and master-data workflows.
Book your CDQ demo
Pick a 30-minute slot — see ESG Guard working on your own data.