Verify supply chain risks
Confirm the presence of risks in your supply chain and verify compliance with global sustainability standards
Once your initial risk assessment is complete, the next step is to verify whether the identified risks are truly present and significant within your supply chain. This step is essential for confirming your initial findings and ensuring that your next actions—such as mitigation or remediation—are based on accurate, real-world insights.
Verification bridges the gap between potential and actual risk, helping you move from identification to informed action. It provides the clarity needed to prioritise effectively, allocate resources wisely, and strengthen overall resilience of your supply chain.
Why is risk verification essential?
Regulatory requirements under the European Union’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) make risk verification a critical part of compliance. Beyond potential legal consequences, such as administrative fines or restrictions on accessing public contracts, companies that fail to verify and act on risks may face supply chain disruptions and reputational damage.
Verifying risks helps you:
Check alignment with global standards
Verify that your suppliers’ operations meet due diligence principles and are aligned with frameworks like the EU CSDDD and OECD Guidelines.
Understand the severity of the risks
Gain deeper insight into which risks are most significant, so you can take targeted, informed action in the next stage of your risk management journey, such as mitigation or remediation.
Validate actual risks in your supply chain
Confirm whether the risks identified during initial risk assessment are present and relevant before moving forward with corrective measures.
How will amfori help you verify supply chain risks?
Verifying ESG risks is a crucial step in turning risk assessments into actionable insights. amfori offers a range of solutions to help you confirm whether identified risks are present and significant in your supply chain.
Audit-based verification
amfori helps conduct regular audits of high-risk suppliers to assess compliance with international sustainability standards.
- Our globally recognised amfori BSCI audits, carried out by APSCA-certified auditors, focus on social risk management.
- amfori BEPI provides environmental audits to evaluate environmental practices.
- amfori QMI offers quality management audits to ensure operational standards are met.
All audits follow a rigorous methodology aligned with global standards, delivering reliable insights to support your risk management efforts.
Zero Tolerance Protocol
For serious human rights violations—such as forced labour or sexual violence—amfori provides its Zero Tolerance Protocol. This enables rapid identification of critical issues during amfori BSCI audits and supports effective remediation.
Supply chain grievance mechanism
Our supply chain grievance mechanism, amfori Speak for Change, helps you better understand social risks in your sourcing countries and address issues as they arise. amfori case handlers verify grievances reported by workers or other affected stakeholders in your supply chain by consulting multiple sources, including amfori BSCI audit findings, evidence provided by the complainant or suppliers, and, in more complex cases, by conducting more in-depth investigations to establish the facts.
Overall, by providing an independent assessment of a supplier’s sustainability performance, we help you verify their claims and identify any discrepancies, in turn strengthening the reliability of your risk management strategy.
What our Members are saying
We began using amfori BEPI in 2020. At first, we explored the available tools through environmental risk assessments. Since then, we’ve progressed to requiring audits for all factories, including those located in low-risk countries. As of now, approximately 90% of our factories are covered by environmental risk assessments.
JYSK,
International home furnishing retailer
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