The GSCP Equivalence Process (EP) aims at driving upward convergence in the content of standards and allowing for more comparability, transparency and mutual confidence between existing standards and systems setting social and environmental requirements in supply chains. Through the Equivalence Process, organisations can benchmark their own standards and systems against the GSCP Reference tools and then against each others’.

Who has used the Equivalence Process?

Here below is a list of the organisations which have completed their Equivalence Process. To the right are the GSCP Reference tools these organisations have benchmarked their tools and systems against, and teh date of finalisation of their respective Equivalence Assessments. These are the organisations that can currently share and compare their results within the EP platform.

key: 1RC: Reference Code (social) | 2ERR: Environmental Reference requirements | 3APM: Audit Process & Methodology (social) | 4EAPM: Environmental Audit Process & Methodology | 5AC: Auditing Competence		Equivalence Process completed against:					date of validation
		RC1	ERR2	APM3	EAPM4	AC5
	Business Social Compliance Initiative (BSCI)						2013.01.22
	Fruit South Africa						2012.09.12
	SGS						2012.10.28
	Global Strategy Management Technology Co., Ltd (SMT-Global)						2012.06.12
	UL Responsible Sourcing						2013.01.28
	Walmart						2013.01.22