Share basic sourcing data with ease
SIMPLE MILLS KEY PRACTICES SURVEY
FAQs and Instructions for direct Simple Mills suppliers
Our supply chain offers the largest area of opportunity for Simple Mills to advance the adoption of regenerative agriculture – and trusted relationships directly with suppliers, farmers, and the communities embedded throughout our ingredient value chains are critical to this work."
Partnering for Sustainability
Simple Mills is committed to advancing regenerative agriculture. In order to positively impact people and the planet, Simple Mills needs to first understand current baselines, including their carbon emissions.
Simple Mills has partnered with HowGood, an independent research company and sustainability intelligence platform, to make the data collection and analysis process easier for their suppliers, and offer you additional ways to leverage your sustainability efforts.
How it works
STEP ONE
First, choose the growers you’d like to participate. Please select the number of growers to participate based on number of crop acres needed to fulfill annual Simple Mills volumes sold in CY2023. It is better to overestimate in case we do not receive a response from all growers.
STEP TWO
Click the button below to access the survey, and send that survey to each one of your growers to fill out individually. If you are planning to fill it out on behalf of a grower, prepare with them in advance for the data needed, and enter data into the survey per grower.
STEP THREE
Based on the answers provided, HowGood will calculate the carbon footprint of your ingredients and share that data with Simple Mills. A Sustainability Scorecard with the carbon footprint, as well as an in-depth impact analysis, will be available to you.
What's in it for me?
As a supplier, you are a critical link to reducing the impact of the food industry at large. HowGood is committed to creating a frictionless process for you, your growers, and your customers like Simple Mills to collect, analyze, and act on high quality sustainability data.
To thank you for your participation, HowGood will provide the following:
Sustainability
Scorecard
- Complete carbon footprint for any product
- Industry benchmarking
- Eligible sustainability claims
- Options for utilizing the scorecard for internal decision-making or additional requests
Sustainability Consultation
- In-depth analysis of your products’ performance
- Discussion of any quick wins for improving your impact
- Opportunities for bringing your survey reporting to scale with additional customers
- Quantified representation of how you stand out
Simple & Secure Process
- The survey won't ask for anything your growers don’t already know: we're looking for growing practices, not sustainability metrics.
- You can speak with a HowGood representative for help at any point.
- We are committed to data security. You choose whether to make your results available to Simple Mills only, or discoverable by other brands.
Here's what the survey looks like:
Here's how we protect your data:
Frequently Asked Questions
HowGood is an independent research company and SaaS data platform with the world's largest database on food product sustainability. With more than 90,000 on-farm emissions factors for food ingredients, HowGood helps leading brands, retailers, suppliers and restaurants to measure, manage, and communicate their environmental and social impact.
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