WISIT – the WifOR Institute Sustainability Impact Tool

Upstream impact assessment
Identification of hotspots
Graphics and data for reporting

WISIT, the WifOR Institute Sustainability Impact Tool, is a web application for analyzing the social, environmental, and economic impacts of business activities. It allows for the calculation of impacts along the supply chain up to the final sales product in three steps:

1. Data Input

Use purchase lists detailing procurement costs for a specific fiscal year

2. Calculation

Analyses and forecasts based on WifOR’s own database for the years 2014 to 2030

3. Get your results

Breakdown of results – e.g., by product group, purchasing area, region, supplier, or supply chain stage

The WifOR database covers 188 countries and 56 sectors and is updated regularly throughout the year to reflect the latest data and inflation rates.

“Urgency requires focus: WISIT supports us to prioritize sustainability efforts where we can achieve the greatest positive impact.”

Iris Konrad, Senior Sustainability Specialist at SAP

“WISIT added real value to our Double Materiality Assessment by complementing qualitative interviews with a quantitative and structured value chain perspective. Combined with benchmarks, it created a robust, audit-ready basis for justifying the inclusion and exclusion of topics.”

Gaia Cimbro, ESG Reporting Specialist at Mitsubishi Chemical Europe

“WISIT allowed us to quantify the societal impact of a major financial benchmark in a matter of days – something that would have required extensive time and resources just a few years ago.”

Sam Vionnet, CEO of Valuing Impact

“WISIT is a very informative and valuable tool, as it allowed us to explore a new framework for quantifying social values beyond our existing approach.”

Bumseok Gu, ESG Specialist, SK Biopharmaceuticals

This how you can use WISIT

Reporting and Investor Relations

Scope-3-Analysis | GHG Protocol
Integrated Reporting and Impact Accounting

External and internal Communications

Transparency
Country & stakeholder perspective
Global and regional impact narrative

Procurement and Supply Chain Management

Selection and commissioning of suppliers
Prioritization of efforts
Definition of targets

Strategy and Holistic
Steering

Overview of social, environmental, and economic impacts
Improved decision-making

Example: Double Materiality Assessment under CSRD

When preparing its double materiality assessment for CSRD, Mitsubishi Chemical Europe faced challenges that many companies share:

The assessment was mainly based on qualitative judgments without a transparent scoring logic.
Even topic experts struggled to clearly identify impacts, risks, and opportunities (IROs) across the value chain.
Involving external stakeholders, as required by CSRD, added further complexity.

How WISIT helps

With WISIT, Mitsubishi Chemical Europe was able to complement interviews with quantitative insights. Standardized data and sector benchmarks highlighted key hotspots in the value chain and provided a sound basis for selecting the most relevant ESG topics.

The outcome

A structured and evidence-based double materiality assessment that enhances transparency for internal decision-makers, auditors, and stakeholders – fully aligned with CSRD requirements.