Value of payments to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) that sold goods or services to the organization during the reporting period.
Organizations should footnote all assumptions used.
This metric is intended to capture the value of payments made during the reporting period to small and medium-sized enterprises that supply goods or services to the reporting organization. Organizations can themselves determine the precise threshold at which they report suppliers. In most cases, organizations should include only those enterprises supplying goods and services that are fundamental to the operations of the reporting organization.
Organizations should not include subcontractors as part of this metric; subcontractors can be reported under Temporary Employees (OI9028) and its related submetrics.
This is a submetric of Payments to Supplier Organizations: Total (PI5478), which has 1 other related submetrics.
Metrics identified as "cross-category" are those that are relevant to any IRIS+ Impact Category or Impact Theme (i.e., these metrics are not specific to any particular industry/category or theme).
June 2022 - IRIS v5.3 Released (current version)
Immaterial change. Minor revisions to definition and usage guidance for clarity.
January 2020 - IRIS v5.1 Released
No change.
May 2019 - IRIS v5.0 Released
No change.
March 2016 - IRIS v4.0 Released
No change.
March 2014 - IRIS v3.0 Released
Immaterial change. Minor revision to definition language for clarity.
November 2011 - IRIS v2.2 Released
Immaterial change. Payments to Supplier Organizations: SME (PI7867) replaced Purchases from Supplier Organization (PI7867). Minor revision to definition language and metric name for clarity.
February 2011 - IRIS v2.1 Released
No change.
September 2010 - IRIS v2.0 Released
New metric. Purchases from Supplier Organization (PI7867) was developed via the IRIS Taxonomy Development Group.
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