Pillar Two
Supplier engagement
Helping large suppliers and operators own their governance, systems and voice — and enabling SMEs to meet a standard they cannot carry alone.
What this pillar covers
Focus areas
- Owning due diligence, not just passing audits
- Worker & community voice at the source
- Practical systems for SMEs
- Compliance capability as commercial advantage
What we believe
The audit era made suppliers the objects of due diligence. The regulatory era makes them owners of it. Manufacturing learned this once before: quality moved from end-of-line inspection to systems embedded in how factories run. Due diligence is making the same journey — and suppliers who own their systems, data and voice will turn compliance capability into commercial advantage. One robust assessment for use by many, not many assessments each for a singular client.
What we do
We work with suppliers and site operators to build due diligence they own — governance, management systems and worker engagement that satisfy many buyers and regulators at once — and we build shared models so smaller enterprises can meet a standard no single SME can carry alone.
How we engage
Where we can help
01
Owning the system
- Supplier governance and management-system design: policy, responsibility, root-cause and prevent-recur discipline instead of corrective-action theatre
- Site-level human rights and environmental self-diligence — knowing your own risks before your customers ask
- Grievance mechanisms and worker engagement operated as your system, not the buyer’s checkbox — with worker voice channels through our partner &Wider
- Your emissions, your case: site-level energy, efficiency and process improvement identified and prioritised by payback — reductions you own commercially, not a data request answered for a customer
- Access to finance and technology: connecting efficiency and renewable projects to the buyer commitments, green finance and shared programmes that make them bankable at site scale
02
Meeting the standard, once
- Mapping buyer and regulatory expectations (CSDDD cascade, ESRS value-chain cap, forced-labour evidence standards) into one coherent requirement set
- One robust assessment for use by many: evidence packages designed to travel across customers, regulators and financiers
- Preparation for the new evidence bar: translated documentation, sub-tier visibility, and data that answers customs-grade questions
03
SME & shared-capacity models
- Sector and cluster programmes that pool assessment, training and tooling costs
- Practical toolkits and coaching sized for SME realities — not enterprise paperwork scaled down
- Shared worker-voice and grievance infrastructure with published safeguards
- Pooled decarbonisation: cluster-level energy, logistics and utilities programmes — the projects no single SME can justify alone
Large suppliers and operators building their own programmes; industry groups and buyers sponsoring SME enablement in their chains.
Sic utere tuo ut alienum non laedas
Use what is yours so as to harm no other.
Talk to us about owning your system