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Supply Chain Management
Supply chain management oversees the entire production and distribution process, from sourcing raw materials to delivering the final product. With global supply chains, managing risks such as human rights violations, corruption, and environmental impact has become increasingly complex. Growing regulations demand greater transparency, requiring companies to monitor, assess, and improve the social and environmental footprint of their operations.
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Equidem
Equidem is an independent human rights and labour rights organisation working globally to expose injustice and support marginalised communities. It conducts research, investigates abuses in supply chains, and promotes accountability. Through advocacy and partnerships, Equidem develops practical solutions to strengthen labour rights, migrant worker protections, and the wider human rights movement.
Stakeholder Engagement Guide (beta)
The Stakeholder Engagement Guide is an investor-focused tool for assessing how portfolio companies engage with affected stakeholders within human rights and environmental due diligence. It outlines four stages and seven effectiveness criteria, providing questions, indicators and examples to evaluate engagement quality and identify risks and improvements.
Recharge for rights: Ranking the human rights due diligence reporting of leading electric vehicle makers
Amnesty International assesses 13 leading EV makers’ public reporting on human rights due diligence in battery mineral supply chains. It finds uneven progress since 2017, but no company demonstrates adequate alignment with international standards; Mercedes-Benz and Tesla lead, while BYD ranks last.
Seafood traceability engagement series
This series examines how investor engagement can drive improved traceability in global seafood supply chains. It focuses on assessing company progress, encouraging adoption of traceability systems, and supporting investors in identifying and managing environmental and social risks within complex seafood value chains.
Ethical fashion report series
The Ethical Fashion Report series assesses fashion companies’ supply chain practices, focusing on worker rights, labour conditions, transparency, and environmental stewardship. Produced by Baptist World Aid Australia, the series evaluates brands’ policies and performance to encourage improved accountability and progress towards a more ethical and sustainable fashion industry.
State of supply chain sustainability series
The State of Supply Chain Sustainability is an annual benchmark series that examines how organisations define, govern, and implement environmental and social sustainability across global supply chains. It provides a consistent research framework to track evolving practices, pressures, and management approaches over time.
Crushed series
CRUSHED is a longitudinal research series by the Safe in India Foundation assessing worker safety in India’s automotive manufacturing and supplier ecosystem. Drawing on annual field evidence across multiple years, the series tracks workplace conditions, governance practices, and enforcement gaps to support consistent analysis over time.
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics
MIT Center for Transportation & Logistics (MIT CTL) is a research centre advancing supply chain management, logistics and transportation systems.Based at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, it produces applied research, executive education and industry partnerships focused on resilience, sustainability, digital innovation and global supply chain performance across sectors worldwide today.
IPE Green supply chain
The Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs Green Supply Chain Supplier Database tracks environmental compliance of Chinese suppliers. It consolidates government violation records and corporate disclosures to support supply chain due diligence, risk screening, and ESG assessment by investors and companies.
Nature Enters the Boardroom: Why Directors Are Paying Attention
Drawing on Australia’s first national study of board-level engagement with nature, this article shows how directors are treating nature as a material governance and financial issue. It highlights how boards are extending climate governance systems to manage nature-related risks, adopt frameworks like TNFD, and build resilience and long-term value despite policy uncertainty.
Unlocking Opportunity: Addressing Livestock Methane to Build Resilient Food Systems
This Ceres report outlines the financial and climate case for reducing livestock methane. It maps methane exposure across food supply chains and sets out strategies for companies and investors to manage risk, strengthen resilience, and capture value through near-term methane mitigation.
The role of traceability in critical mineral supply chains
The report examines how traceability can support responsible critical mineral supply chains. It outlines policy drivers, system components, costs and limitations, and mineral-specific challenges, concluding that well-designed traceability can enhance due diligence, transparency and supply security when proportionate and risk-based.
Sustainable Lithium-ion batteries: Investor briefing
This investor briefing outlines sustainability risks and opportunities across the lithium-ion battery value chain. It examines mineral extraction, processing, manufacturing and end-of-life impacts, highlights supply-chain concentration and ESG risks, and provides guidance on disclosure, engagement, circularity and responsible investment strategies.
Building resilient supply chains: Getting the most out of supplier engagement
The report outlines how climate-related risks threaten supply chains and presents seven practical steps to strengthen resilience through supplier engagement. It stresses clear objectives, data use, prioritisation, incentives and cross-functional collaboration to drive emissions reduction, improve transparency and align procurement with long-term sustainability and risk-management goals.
Combined climate stress testing of supply-chain networks and the financial system with nation-wide firm-level emission estimates
This study utilises comprehensive Hungarian firm-level data to stress-test the economy and banking system against carbon pricing shocks. While direct impacts at €45/t appear minimal, supply chain contagion significantly amplifies losses, potentially by 4000% if essential inputs cannot be substituted. This highlights critical risks in systemic supply network dependencies.
Good practice case studies in scope 3 data collection
The report presents practical case studies on Scope 3 data collection, covering supplier, upstream, downstream and employee engagement. It outlines hybrid methodologies, use of primary and spend-based data, and emphasises collaboration, pragmatism and incremental improvement to support credible emissions measurement and reduction.
