SRM Response Fields

There are four fields within each response whenever a question is added to a disclosure.

Methodology

This is where you can lay out how your organization reports against a particular question. A key element of reporting is the ability to compare reporting year-on-year. To do this effectively, responses have to be responded to in the same way.

Furthermore, institutional knowledge is a key part of ESG reporting; each person in a team may have specific knowledge that only they know, that is required to respond to a question. If this person leaves your organization however, their institutional knowledge is lost. Having a single source of truth for your methodology is therefore key.

Response

Depending on the framework and question, the response fields available will vary. A response can be a rich text field, or may include additional elements like tables, picklists, multiple choice or simple input fields.

Links

Sometimes, your organization will have published a document online that contains the necessary information to answer the question. In this field, you can attach such a link.

Attachments

Especially for longer qualitative questions, often there will be documents and existing policies that are best included as attachments. If you click “Add new” in the Attachments field, you will be prompted with the following:

You can either click into the Browse feature, to look through your own files, or you can simply drag and drop a file in.