WifOR’s Spend-based Multipliers for Sustainability Analysis enable companies to measure and evaluate their social, environmental, and economic impacts along the supply chain. The data package facilitates an efficient analysis applying the spend-based method using readily available financial and procurement data.
Insights gained contribute to developing long-term strategies for enhancing corporate impact while ensuring alignment with corporate purpose. They also support the holistic communication of sustainability metrics and the seamless integration of impact metrics into decision-making processes.
The data package provides spend-based multipliers for 150+ indicators across 188 countries and 56 sectors. The offered indicators, countries and sectors are listed here.
Read more about the multipliers and their applications here.
Request Data PackageBenefits
Yearly updates
Incorporate economic effects including inflation, energy crises, and pandemics
Long-term planning
From 2014 to 2030 annually, individual data points until 2050
Comprehensive indicators
150+ sustainability indicators measure impacts in physical and monetary units
Broad geographical coverage
Data for 56 economic sectors in 188 countries, updated annually
Detailed classification of sectors
Based on the NACE classification up to level 2 (two-digit codes)
Tier split
Data breakdown by supply chain level
Holistic, combined assessment
Impact measurement (physical units) and valuation (monetary) assess a company’s impacts comprehensively and enable comparison
Closure of data gaps
With the spend-based method recommended in the GHG Protocol, upstream Scope 3 emissions in the supply chain can be determined even if primary data is not available
Use Cases

Reporting and Investor Relations
- Supply chain risk assessment for CSRD and supply chain legislation (e.g. LkSG)
- Scope 3 analysis | GHG Protocol
- TCFD, TNFD, TNFD | ISSB
- Integrated Reporting | Impact Accounting

External and Internal Communications
- Transparency
- Country and stakeholders’ perspectives
- Description of global and regional impacts
- SDG contribution

Procurement and Supply Chain Management
- Supplier screening and engagement
- Prioritization of measures
- Target setting

Strategy and Holistic Steering
- Overview of the social, environmental, and economic impacts
- Comparability and benchmarking
- Decision-making and risk assessment









