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The Value Chain section in Orixe enables your company to map, understand, and analyze your entire value network - from raw material suppliers to end users. Completing this section provides a comprehensive overview of how value is created, distributed, and influenced across your operations.
Each field is designed to capture key sustainability, operational, and relational information about your supply chain, ensuring your organization has the insights needed to strengthen performance, manage risks, and support responsible growth.
Aligned with major EU sustainability regulations and standards, including VSME, CSRD, CSDDD, ESRS, and EUDR, completing this section is an essential step for regulatory compliance. It helps your company meet reporting obligations, maintain alignment with evolving legal and sustainability requirements, and carry out proactive due diligence. Compliance is treated not as a box-ticking exercise, but as a foundation for long-term strategic value.
By completing the Value Chain section, your company can:
Suppliers represent the upstream part of your value chain - the individuals or organizations that provide the raw materials, components, or services your business needs to operate. Mapping suppliers provides insight into where your products and services originate and who supports your operations.
This includes direct suppliers, known as Tier 1, who supply goods or services directly to your company. Any additional upstream suppliers, such as raw material providers, subcontractors, or service vendors, supply products or services through successive tiers, passing them downstream from Tier 2 to Tier 1 and finally reaching your company.
The number of supplier tiers can vary depending on your business - some companies may only have direct suppliers, while others may have multiple upstream layers. Understanding these relationships helps assess how sustainability, quality, and risk management flow through the value chain.
You can customize the number of suppliers in your value chain and rearrange tiers by dragging the blocks left or right to reflect your company’s structure.
This section focuses on your own organization and its role within the value chain.
It helps define what your company delivers, how it operates, and the value it provides to customers and stakeholders.
You can drag the “The Company” block slightly toward either the supplier side or the customer side, depending on your company’s position in the chain.
Customers represent the downstream part of your value chain - the individuals or organizations who purchase or benefit from your products and services. Mapping customers provides insight into where your products end up and who relies on your business.
This includes direct customers, known as Tier 1, who buy directly from your company. Any additional downstream customers, such as distributors, retailers, or end users, receive products through successive tiers, eventually passing through the Tier 1 customers.
The number of customer tiers can vary depending on your business - some companies may only have direct customers, while others may have multiple downstream layers. Understanding these relationships helps assess how sustainability, quality, and service expectations flow through the value chain.
You can customize the number of customers in your value chain and rearrange tiers by dragging the blocks left or right to reflect your company’s structure.
Add information about all raw materials used in your production process.
This includes materials sourced directly or indirectly and is important for assessing environmental impact, sourcing transparency, and overall sustainability of your operations.
Describe the final users of your products and what happens at the end of the product’s lifecycle. Include information about how products are used, reused, recycled, or disposed of after their useful life.
This section helps evaluate your product’s overall environmental footprint and potential for circularity.
This section identifies how your company’s activities affect society, the environment, and the economy.
It helps assess your organization’s sustainability performance and areas for improvement.
Here you describe external influences that affect your company’s sustainability and performance.
Understanding these factors helps you anticipate risks and opportunities that may arise from your operating environment.
Add any risks that exist within your value chain. These may include environmental, social, ethical, or operational risks that could disrupt production, harm reputation, or reduce compliance levels.
This section helps identify where preventive measures or mitigation strategies are needed.
List potential opportunities that your company can pursue to enhance performance or sustainability.
Opportunities can relate to innovation, process improvement, or market development, helping your company grow responsibly and efficiently.
Identify all internal and external stakeholders connected to your value chain.
Stakeholders include any individuals, groups, or organizations that are affected by or have an interest in your company’s operations.
Adding stakeholders ensures that all relevant voices and perspectives are considered in sustainability planning and reporting.
Once you have completed all sections, click the “Save” button to securely store your data. Saving finalizes your Value Chain form - you won’t be able to delete it, but you can "edit" the information at any time as your operations or suppliers change.
After saving, your data remains stored and editable. You can also view the edit history to track changes. From the day you save your Value Chain, a “Download” button becomes available, allowing you to download the latest version of your form as a PDF copy at any time.