Group-wide visibility, built from work each entity had already done
How beSirius gave a global manufacturing group one structured way to manage EcoVadis submissions across 35 locations.
The situation
3A Composites manufactures aluminium panels, PET foam, balsa wood cores, and rigid foam sheets, sold into customers across construction, transport, and industrial markets. The group is part of Schweiter Technologies, listed on the Swiss stock exchange, and operates around 35 production and distribution sites with approximately 4,200 employees worldwide. Customers and supply chain partners across the composites and materials industry require verified sustainability data, with EcoVadis ratings now a standard part of doing business at this scale.
The problem
Every 3A entity was preparing its EcoVadis submission on its own. There was no shared framework for organising evidence, no central documentation library, and no way to see how different sites were performing relative to each other.
That created three practical problems.
Inconsistent scores
Scores varied between entities doing comparable sustainability work, with the differences sitting in how the evidence was packaged rather than in the underlying performance.
Invisible documentation
Documentation already gathered at one site was invisible to the others. Teams ran the same evidence collection exercise at every entity.
Late gap discovery
Gaps in evidence only became visible after the scores came back, by which point nothing could be fixed for that cycle.
What beSirius built
beSirius was deployed across 3A's entities as a single structured environment for managing assessments. The work each sustainability team was doing did not change. What changed was that the work became visible across the group, organised in one place, and reusable from one entity to the next.
Map
Assessment requirements were mapped centrally, so every site worked from the same picture.
Assign
Ownership for each requirement was assigned to specific people, so nothing fell between entities.
Share
Documentation gathered at one site became reusable at every other site, which meant evidence collection stopped being repeated work.
Track
Progress was tracked in real time, so gaps surfaced before submission deadlines instead of after scores came back.
What changed for 3A
Submissions across the group started landing more consistently, with evidence packaged the way the assessor expects to see it. Time spent preparing each submission came down because the redundant evidence-gathering was eliminated. Teams spent more of their time on the sustainability work itself rather than on packaging it for assessment.
For a manufacturing group operating across dozens of sites, the practical value was visibility. Sustainability performance was no longer something assessed externally and received with uncertainty after the fact. It became something the group could see, own, and act on while there was still time in the cycle.
- Inconsistent scores across the group
- Redundant evidence-gathering at every entity
- Gaps only discovered after scores came back
- Submissions landing more consistently across the group
- Centralised documentation eliminated redundant work
- Gaps visible in real time before submission deadlines
In 3A's words"beSirius gave us the structure and visibility we were missing. It turned EcoVadis from a stressful exercise into a process we actually control."
Haro Coolen, Sustainability Director, 3A Composites
What this demonstrates about beSirius
The Twin can run at group level. When evidence is structured once and made available across multiple entities, work done at one site becomes the starting point for every other site, and gaps surface during the cycle rather than after.
For more on improving EcoVadis outcomes, see our EcoVadis guide.
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