My name is Max Maximilian Sidorowicz and I have been ESG Manager at Netto Germany for just over five months now. We are a subsidiary of the Salling Group in Denmark. Sustainability is actually ingrained in our DNA here in Germany, at Netto Germany, but also at the Salling Group. 

The Salling Group has even written down the “5 Ks.” These are customers, colleagues, culture, diversity – which doesn’t start with a K in German, but it does in Danish – and, of course, the climate. Our actions in every department are guided by these principles. When the LkSG was announced by the German government, my predecessor had already looked into it very thoroughly. As far as I know, he had already done so in 2020 and had looked at how Netto Germany could implement it. At first, we thought it wouldn’t be a big problem because we have lists, but that didn’t work; the workload was simply too much and we didn’t have the manpower. Then we quickly started looking for something that could help us, a software solution that could help us, and after a few conversations with various providers, we came across osapiens, and yes, ever since, I would say. The support from your side was definitely excellent, as I had heard from my predecessor and also from my boss, and we were able to use your HUB to meet our exact needs. That is still the case today. And now I work with the HUB every day, and it takes so much work off my hands. I can concentrate on things that are really more than just compliance, and then I can look at the HUB every day and say, okay, what case do I need to work on now? I start the case, and then the workflow begins. 

And then I set a timer or whatever in my calendar to check back in. It’s really very intuitive. So, the solution we use from osapiens is the Due Diligence HUB, which we will continue to use anyway, even if the LkSG – I mean, we all know what’s in the coalition agreement, and that’s why we’ll continue to use it, and the CSDDD is coming, and soon it will transition seamlessly, so to speak. And yet, I can reveal that our parent company, the Salling Group, will now also be using the EUDR HUB, because the EUDR will come into force next year and the Salling Group is working on implementing it company-wide. The customer support from osapiens from the very beginning, including the initial customer support we had during programming, was excellent. We were really taken by the hand and told that this and that was possible, and when we asked what about this or that, it was also possible. So it was like: Hold my beer – we can do this.