Prewave Maturity Assessment - Questions & Answers

A Maturity Assessment is Prewave's way of representing how mature a Site is in our system. Maturity is considered to be what a Site is certified for, what they report or declare, what policies they have in place and whether they have a standard or rating. Via this feature, Prewave captures all-important non-financial datapoints at supplier level and visualises them in the Prewave network, in the form of a list and score.

We collect:

Site specific information (something accredited like an ISO where the site is mentioned) - these always have a validation range and therefore can expire. This information is shown only on the Site mentioned in the certificate, plus the Site group

Non-site specific information (something self-reported and company wide, like a policy or ESG report) - these don’t have a validation range and so don’t expire. This information is always propagated across all sites within an organisation

This is an important additional layer of scoring in Prewave and is outside of our customer’s control. The onus is on companies to move towards accreditation and at the very least self report their operational sustainability and best practice.

Results, in the form of a list of certificates, policies, reports etc, can be found on:

Site profile under Certificates > here we show non-site specific information (like an Environmental Policy that was found on a sister-site, but has been propagated to all sites in that organisation) as well as site-specific information (an ISO would need to have that Site mentioned in the certificate to be published)

Site Group profile under Certificates > here we show the accumulation of all information found across all their sites (site-specific and non-site specific)

A full list can be seen here.

Users that can create Actions (i.e. have the access_action permission) can create the S1 Action called Maturity Assessment via a site profile or the Acton Platform.

Users can also send batch requests via our CSM team, this needs to be on POI level and include POI ID for us to run it

In the Core package, customers can buy Maturity Assessments at per site, and per-unit cost decreases the more they buy

In the Advanced and Expert packages, 10% of 360 scored sites can be Maturity Assessed at no additional cost

We will show Maturity Assessed = Yes at the top of the Site profile (this happens only at Site-level). If it shows Maturity Assessed = Yes but you see no information under the Certificates tab, it means we found nothing, but the Assessment stands.

This is because a Maturity Assessment has not been done. The user of that organisation may have uploaded certificates or did so via a Self Assessment. These are not scored as no Maturity Assessment was completed.

We score Maturity Assessments in 6 categories:

All 6 appear, regardless of what information is found or not found, under the Assessment Score filter on the 360 score card. The Type of these entries is called Maturity Assessment.

We score on the same basis as we do the Self Assessments, so each category is related to an event type that makes sense to that category. We assign a negative weight based on the absence of information.

Site specific certificates (ISOs for example) are considered gold-standard, so we give that category a score of 100 if one is found

Non-site specific certificates, as they are self-reported are less “powerful”, so have less weight than an ISO

If nothing is found in a category. The lowest the score can be is 50.

So category to category, the scoring mechanism checks what is found under the Certificates tab for information:

ISOs are accredited. Anything accredited (stamped by a third party) means its not self reported. These are the strongest type of certificate we collect and give a result of 100 for that category. An example is if a site is certified ISO14001, they get 100 in the Environment Maturity Assessment by Prewave category

The 6 entries are stored under the Assessment Score filter on the 360 scorecard

Probably the perspective you are using omits one or more (eg. you are not going to see the Environment Maturity Assessment score if you have the Financial perspective set)

Any user can see the results (under the Certificates tab) and scores (under the assessment score filter) for any Maturity Assessment previously completed

Once you see Maturity Assessed = Yes on the top of a POI profile, we trigger the scoring mechanism to show scoring results under Assessment Score.

Once a certificate expires on a target, we rerun a Maturity Assessment on that POI ID and the score is redone.

Unfortunately they won’t be part of the score, until our process is rerun (once every 6 months). However, if you notice such a case, you can email [email protected] and we can update the scoring.

If you see any wrong information in the system, you can report it and our Supplier Success team will review it within 3 business days.

Users in the NW can also use the little white flag to report wrong information directly to us. More here.

Users in the NW can also use the little bell icon to be notified on expiry for a certain certificate at a certain site. More here.

Currently the Maturity Assessment score shows under the SSA Score column in the Risk Analysis.

A better breakdown of the Maturity Assessment input into the Assessment Score and 360 score is being conceptualised and worked on by the Product team (as of May 2025)

Any user can upload certificates at their own organisation. Users cannot upload certificates for a different organisation. Unless a Maturity Assessment has been done at that target, these uploaded certificates will not be shown in the score