Consulting
Responsible business isn't just about ticking boxes...
Specialised Advisory Services
We help you understand and manage risks across your raw material supply chains. Our work covers commodity-specific due diligence and risk assessment, plus responsible sourcing strategy for high-risk materials. From there we design traceability systems, evaluate certification schemes, and identify alternative sourcing options with supporting market intelligence. All findings integrate with our proprietary risk intelligence platform.
Detailed risk profiling for metals, minerals, and commodities, down to sub-national geography, sector, and supplier level.
We map the regulatory landscape applicable to your business and identify where your current practices fall short. You'll know exactly what to prioritise and why.
Strategic analysis of ESG risks and opportunities across your supply chain, aligned to your business context and sector dynamics.
Supply Chain Mapping
We deliver tailored mapping methodologies for your products, sectors, and sourcing regions. This includes supplier relationship verification through documentation review and direct engagement, visual supply chain maps showing supplier locations and production flows, risk intelligence integration to flag high-risk tiers and geographies, and traceability protocols for critical raw materials and components. Our digital supply chain mapping platform is coming soon.
We go deeper than country-level scores. Our risk assessments examine specific supplier locations, production processes, and sourcing contexts to give you a genuinely accurate picture of where your risks sit. We deliver comprehensive risk assessments across your mapped supply chain, including sub-national geographic risk analysis at province and district level, sector and commodity-specific risk profiling, and supplier-level evaluation against human rights, environmental, and governance criteria. Our output includes inherent risk assessments to prioritise due diligence resources, risk heat maps for leadership visibility, and clear recommendations for mitigation and enhanced due diligence.
Strategy Development
We start with materiality and salience assessments to identify priority ESG issues, then work through stakeholder consultation to develop a clear vision, strategic objectives, and policy framework including codes of conduct and supplier standards. From there, we build phased implementation roadmaps with resource planning, governance structures and accountability frameworks, and KPI development integrated with your wider sustainability strategy.
Mandatory HRDD legislation is expanding fast. We design programmes that meet the requirements of CSDDD, the German Supply Chain Act, and other applicable regulations, while genuinely embedding human rights thinking into how you operate. We start with gap analysis against relevant HRDD regulations and salient human rights issue identification, then design due diligence processes across identification, prevention, mitigation, and remediation. We also design grievance mechanisms and stakeholder engagement protocols, then build reporting and disclosure frameworks that integrate with your existing compliance and risk management systems.
The regulatory landscape is moving quickly. We help you navigate overlapping requirements with clarity, building prioritised roadmaps that keep you ahead of the curve. Our work covers comprehensive regulatory landscape analysis, gap assessments against current practices, and prioritised compliance roadmaps with timelines and milestones. We also plan resource and capability requirements, assess non-compliance risk, and provide compliance verification and assurance planning alongside ongoing regulatory monitoring and supplier public issues alerts.
Management Systems
We document policies and procedures aligned to international frameworks including SMETA, and design risk assessment and due diligence processes tailored to your operations. We develop supplier onboarding and evaluation protocols, alongside monitoring and verification procedures. From there we build corrective action and remediation frameworks and grievance mechanisms. We also establish internal controls and audit protocols, performance monitoring and reporting systems, and ensure integration with existing quality and compliance functions.
Know where you stand. We benchmark your current practices against regulatory requirements and peer performance, so you can direct improvement efforts where they matter most. Our work covers assessments against CSDDD, the German Supply Chain Act, and EUDR, as well as voluntary standards including RMI, RJC, IRMA, RBA, and ASI. We deliver maturity assessments across your due diligence processes and detailed gap analysis backed by findings and evidence. You get priority improvement recommendations and hands-on implementation support.
Whether you're facing a regulatory review or a third-party audit, we'll make sure you're ready and genuinely able to demonstrate your performance. We deliver pre-audit gap assessments, documentation review and development, and process and procedure verification. On the people side, we run staff training and interview preparation, mock audits, and post-audit implementation support.
Supplier Engagement & Capacity Building
We design supplier assessment questionnaires and risk-based screening and evaluation processes, including enhanced due diligence for high-risk suppliers and commodities. We also build supplier onboarding processes with clear documentation and verification protocols. From there we put in place red flag identification and escalation procedures and ongoing supplier performance monitoring.
Many supply chain ESG issues stem from capability gaps rather than deliberate wrongdoing. We work with your suppliers to bridge that gap through practical training and long-term partnerships. We deliver supplier training on ESG requirements and best practices, backed by capability needs assessments. From there we run corrective action planning with implementation support and convene supplier working groups and peer learning forums. We also provide technical assistance on specific issues such as worker welfare and chemical management, and support supplier recognition and incentive programmes.
Ongoing monitoring of supplier risks including adverse news alerts and early warning signals, so issues are caught before they escalate.