2025 Predictions for Business Leaders

In 2025, responsible supply chain management will prioritize actionable solutions over empty rhetoric, focusing on proving how ethical and sustainable practices support profit margins. Success will require clear communication, authentic messaging, and creating systems that demonstrate tangible value.

Are you relying solely on consultants for your supply chain due diligence? Yikes!

As supply chain regulations grow more demanding, relying solely on consultants can leave businesses vulnerable. While their expertise is valuable, it often leads to knowledge gaps and cookie-cutter solutions that don’t fit. Learn how to create a compliance strategy that’s practical, proactive, and built to last.

Compliance vs Responsibility

Compliance and responsibility are two distinct approaches to managing human rights risks in supply chains. While compliance focuses on meeting legal standards, responsibility emphasizes proactive, voluntary efforts to create lasting, ethical impact. Understanding the difference is key for companies aiming to genuinely protect human rights.

The Growing Demand for Supply Chain Responsibility in B2B Relationships

Supply chain responsibility has shifted from being a compliance issue to a critical business necessity. Companies are now expected to ensure ethical and sustainable practices within their supply chains, especially in business-to-business (B2B) markets, where scrutiny of supplier and partner practices is more intense than ever.

How To Convince Your CFO To Approve Purchase Of Supply Chain Responsibility Software

The essential tips to help you convince your CFO to invest in supply chain risk management software.

The Risks of Bare Minimum Supply Chain Compliance

As with any regulatory requirement complying by submitting only the minimum information necessary might seem cost-effective and time-efficient , but it actually carries substantial risks that can adversely affect overall business health.

You Submitted Your Canada Modern Slavery Report. Now What?

What you should be doing about Canada's Modern Slavery Act for next years report.

The supply chain risk your mapping software isn’t finding

Labor recruitment is critical to global supply chains as it facilitates the sourcing of skilled and unskilled workers needed for various stages of production, ensuring the efficiency and productivity of manufacturing processes. However, with this insatiable demand for labor comes a heightened risk of exploitation.

Navigating Your Company’s Growing AI Carbon Footprint

One ChatGTP request requires 10 times the energy of a Google search. In five years, the incremental energy demand of AI will be equivalent to 40 million homes — more than California, Texas, Florida, and New York combined. - Professor Scott Galloway

Comparing Legislative Measures: Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act vs. Proposed EU Ban on Goods Made with Forced Labor

Legislative measures have been proposed both in the United States and the European Union aimed at combating the use of forced labor in supply chains. In this blog post, we'll explore the similarities and differences between the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act in the U.S. and the proposed EU ban on goods made with forced labor.

Guidance on Canada's Fighting Against Forced Labour and Child Labour in Supply Chains Act ("Supply Chains Act") or Bill S-211

Understanding the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive: A Compliance Guide for Businesses

The new EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive creates mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence obligations for company supply chains.

How To Be A Giver To Your Suppliers

Creating a sustainable and ethical supply chain is vital for businesses in today's world. Regulations like Germany’s Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (in German, Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz or LkSG) not only reflect a commitment to environmental stewardship and social responsibility, but it also ensures long-term viability and success.

How To Create Career Wins For Your Boss With Transparent and Responsible Supply Chains

The world has changed. The demand from investors and regulators for transparency and ethical considerations in supply chains has become a strategic priority. While this task is primarily the responsibility of procurement and compliance teams, there are other departments in the organization which will directly benefit. This article will help you find additional wins for your organization as you design and implement your responsible sourcing strategy.

The United Nations released guidance on how to break up with risky suppliers

We’ve summarized a very long article on how to work with suppliers at risk of human rights abuse.

The Impact of the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive on Trade in Europe And Beyond

EU Trade is about to get a little more...complicated...in a good way!

New Zealand Modern Slavery Law

Still Using Questionnaires to Monitor Risk in Supply Chains? 

Are you relying on supplier questionnaires to map your supply chain? If so be sure to check your fax machine and answer your pager because you are missing a LOT!

If Patagonia is unsustainable, then what is your company?

Five ways to save valuable time when buying supply chain risk management software

Can Artificial Intelligence Fix Slavery In Supply Chains?

AI is speeding up the supply chain transparency movement

Questionnaires & Audits Won't Protect Your Supply Chain

FRDM In The Finance Sector

FRDM CEO and Standard Bank discuss the future of ethical sourcing

The elephant in the boardroom is unstructured supply chain data

How to actually transform your company’s digital transformation

FRDM CEO Speaking at Customs and Border Protection Tech Expo

Next week CBP is hosting a Forced Labor Tech Expo for companies, government, and NGOs, and our CEO Justin Dillon will be presenting in person. The event is sold out, but you can follow it online.

Slavery Footprint 2023

In 2011 Slavery Footprint was launched with support of the US State Department and Google with the goal of raising consumer awareness of how the products they purchase rely on slave labor because the people who produce them are forced to work without pay, under threat of violence, or through other forms of coercion. Since then, more than 32 million people from nearly every country in the world have used the app’s lifestyle survey to understand how their purchases are connected to modern slavery.

Tap. Tap. Is this on? Marketers trust your audience.

In today's digital age, most B2B marketing professionals operate like they’re the ‘it’ band. Pushing their features and functions and forgetting that they are speaking to humans, with agency and budgets, who get to make their own choice about how ‘amazing’ a product is. To break through noise, today’s marketers must approach their work with a different mindset. Instead of treating their audience as passive consumers, they need to think more like authentic indie bands and trust their audience to become part of the story.

Five benefits of supply chain transparency you probably missed

Supply chain visibility and traceability have become increasingly important as companies look for ways to improve efficiency and reduce risk. Organizations that embrace transparency create competitive advantages in terms of cost savings, quality control, customer satisfaction, and sustainability.

How the EU's new proposed Regulation could affect your procurement process.

The European Commission has proposed a new Regulation that would stop products made with forced labor from being imported into or exported from the European Union's 27 member nations, or otherwise made available on the EU market. It's one of the broadest and most punitive prohibitions to date.

CBP releases game-changing procurement standards.

What the new Customs and Border Protection forced labor requirements mean for companies.

The ins and outs of the new German Supply Chain Act.

4 things top procurement professionals need to know about the German Supply Chain Act

The ultimate guide to the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act: How to thrive with the new legislation.

Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act Meta description: The Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act is already impacting procurement and compliance teams. Here's some tips on supply chain mapping

A Higher Education Network Is Schooling Most Companies.

How a university procurement network just changed supply chain management game.

Solar vs Human Rights: Hidden Ethical Issues with Solar Panels.

Solar panels may be vital for addressing climate change, but they contain a range of ethical risks. Transparency can help you find the issues, and take action.

Why the Norwegian Transparency Act is a procurement game-changer.

What does you company need to do to comply with the Norwegian Transparency Act.