The No. 1 Enterprise ESG Solution from OPTEN

The ESG approach is no longer merely a marker of responsible corporate conduct; it has become a legal and market requirement. Expectations around reporting and supplier risk management are tightening year by year, while the domestic regulatory environment—aligned with the CSRD and CS3D directives—provides increasingly precise guidance on what companies must do. Built on the same logic, the OPTEN Enterprise ESG Platform turns the collection, structuring, and assessment of data required for reporting into a digital, auditable process tailored to large-enterprise compliance needs.

Following the 2025 amendments, supplier due diligence has become a particularly sensitive area: under the applicable rules, micro and small enterprises may not be required to provide ESG data until 30 June 2027, and they may not undertake such obligations by contract or declaration; more proportionate, flexibility-based rules apply to medium-sized enterprises as well. This prohibition complicates traditional, questionnaire-based supplier compliance mapping on the side of large companies, even as business risks extend across the entire supply chain.

Data-driven assessment can help reconcile the tension between regulatory constraints and risk-management needs. Accordingly, OPTEN’s approach does not rely on prohibited, direct ESG data requests to micro and small enterprises; instead, it uses models derived from corporate information and public sources to provide an objective view of suppliers across legal compliance, financial exposure, environmental practices, and workforce considerations. The resulting, comparable indicators fill critical gaps in the supplier map without triggering data requests that would breach the law.

Within this framework, the OPTEN ESG Index and its associated rating component play a central role: OPTEN’s Corporate ESG software is the first and only solution in Hungary accredited by SZTFH (the Supervisory Authority for Regulated Activities) that combines an ESG rating with the software platform and supports end-to-end supply-chain due diligence. The methodology is based on 75 input parameters, enabling the risks of micro and small suppliers to be evaluated quickly, reliably, and automatically.

The platform’s architecture aligns with the domestic ESG framework: the ESG Act and the data points prescribed by SZTFH are captured in a structured manner on a single interface, supplier exposures are identified, and outcomes are made retrievable in an auditable way using consistent terminology.

Compliant supplier due diligence today must meet a dual test: it must ensure that micro and small enterprises are not burdened with prohibited data-disclosure obligations, while still producing a decision-ready risk picture for large-company procurement and compliance functions. OPTEN’s solution fits this space by integrating accreditation-based methodology with software-driven workflows, thereby enabling transparent, comparable, and verifiable identification of risks across the supply chain.

Ultimately, sustainability compliance is also a matter of competitiveness: where compliance is measurable and auditable, organizations can focus on material risks and manage their supplier networks in a data-driven manner while respecting legal constraints. This is what connecting “transparency and competitive advantage” means in practice today.

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