Join VIVE to
Be at the forefront of continuous improvement
Commit to eliminating child labour
Focus on water stewardship
Grow your market share with your achievements
Differentiate your products
Build long-term commercial relationships in your supply chains
The VIVE Modules
A modular approach means your business is assessed according to its role in the supply chain.
Farm
Promote good agricultural practices that result in the efficient and environmentally sustainable production of food ingredients.
For:
Producers e.g. sugarcane farms
Facilities
Manage processing facilities ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all employees and visitors.
For:
- Primary processors e.g. sugar mills
- Secondary processors e.g. sugar refineries
Shipping
Demonstrate responsibility for each step of the supply chain where ownership or duty of care for ingredients moving along the supply chain is retained.
For:
- Shipping companies
Energy
Promotes generation and distribution of renewable energy from solar, wind power, and biomass.
Assessment for this module is free for participants that run their facilities on renewable energy.
For:
- Sugar mills using co-generation
- Wind power plants
- Solar power plants
Chain of Custody
Assess the traceability of VIVE ingredients once they leave the control of the producer.
For:
- Logistics providers
- Trading companies
Farm
Promote good agricultural practices that result in the efficient and environmentally sustainable production of food ingredients.
For:
Producers e.g. sugarcane farms
Facilities
Manage processing facilities ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all employees and visitors.
For:
- Primary processors e.g. sugar mills
- Secondary processors e.g. sugar refineries
Shipping
Demonstrate responsibility for each step of the supply chain where ownership or duty of care for ingredients moving along the supply chain is retained.
For:
- Shipping companies
Energy
Promotes generation and distribution of renewable energy from solar, wind power, and biomass.
Assessment for this module is free for participants that run their facilities on renewable energy.
For:
- Sugar mills using co-generation
- Wind power plants
- Solar power plants
Facilities
Manage processing facilities ensuring the health, safety and wellbeing of all employees and visitors.
For:
- Primary processors e.g. sugar mills
- Secondary processors e.g. sugar refineries
Smallholder Programme
Gathering information at scale at smallholder level can be time consuming, expensive and inaccurate – we get it.
The VIVE Smallholder Programme is designed to be the first step on a journey of continuous improvement enabling small holders to start recording and demonstrating their sustainable practices.
Who can participate?
The programme is tailored to farms less than 15 hectares in size.
How does it work?
Our Smallholder Programme has been developed to enable smallholders to demonstrate compliance to The Coca-Cola Company SAGP requirements.
Farmers use:
- Cloud based smart technology, deployed by mill extension officers to make the collection of farm level data cost effective.
- Remote in-field data capture via smartphones uploaded and stored into a secure cloud-based system.
Participating mills can use the VIVE Smallholder programme survey results to demonstrate 1-to-1 relationships with supplying smallholders and meet end-buyers’ requirements.
Our assessments
VIVE recognises that participants will be at different stages in their sustainability journey with different priorities. The VIVE programme is made up of three steps representing a gradual path to sustainability which can be tailored to each participant.
VIVE is flexible with three levels of achievement:
Step 1 - Continuous improvement
The VIVE team provides support for businesses at the start of their sustainability journey, providing continuous improvement plans to help them reach Step 2.
Step 2 - Claim Level
For businesses that fulfil 75% of the VIVE criteria and the requirements of the industry standard. Claim Level is benchmarked to multiple globally recognised sustainability programmes.
Step 3 - Excellence Level
For businesses aiming to go above and beyond the essential sustainability requirements, fulfilling 100% of the VIVE criteria.
The VIVE Improvement Cycle
VIVE provides clear reporting, analysis and bespoke action plans, supported by independent third-party assessments ensure you have the full picture and know what to aim for and how. This clarity is attractive to third party investors.
01.Initial measurement
VIVE measures every aspect of your supply chain to identify best practice and highlight areas for improvement.
02.Current performance
As a participant you can progress quickly, identifying accurately the gaps in your supply chain and choosing your Improvement Plan according to your resources and needs.
03. Highlighting excellence
VIVE highlights your areas of excellence and drives immediate Improvement through the supply chain.
As your journey evolves, programme modules can be added providing you with new sustainability targets to achieve, unlocking new benchmarks & commercial opportunities.
Benchmarked to globally recognised programmes
VIVE acts as an ‘umbrella programme’, benchmarked against other sustainability initiatives and standards. This enables one VIVE assessment to measure and benchmark your performance against several programmes at once, thus reducing ‘audit fatigue’.
