Result: Green Light!
Your result is within the green range
Congratulations! Your results indicate that your supply chain structure has reached a strong level of maturity, positioning your business for improved resilience and compliance.
DEKRA strongly recommends, and stands ready, to help you delve deeper to achieve further improvements for both operational risk management and statutory governance. Depending on the focus of your responses (holistic supply chain, governance or resilience), DEKRA will help you address the highest-risk areas immediately, while offering the option to further enhance topics where you have already achieved a good level.
DEKRA supports you with all the above-mentioned risk analyses to prevent supply chain disruptions and ensure your company remains compliant with legal requirements. We use state-of-the-art AI-based analysis tools, combined with an examination of your risk management organization, your risk policy, your management systems, your risk mitigation culture, as well as your training and documentation processes.
Based on the focus of your responses (holistic supply chain topics, governance or resilience), we recommend, with DEKRA’s support, addressing the highest-risk areas first, with the option to continue improving areas where you already reach a good level.
Despite the great result reflected in your questionnaire, we encourage you not to underestimate any remaining or invisible risks. By addressing these risks, you can further enhance the quality of your supply chain operations, minimize legal and disruption risks, and ensure a highly competitive and fully compliant supply chain.
Background
To secure the operations of a Supply Chain, it is mandatory to cover both governance and resilience topics:
Supply Chain Governance
This encompasses compliance with legislation, such as national laws like Germany’s LkSG (Supply Chain Due Diligence Act) and similar regulations in France, the United Kingdom, Norway, Switzerland, the USA, Australia, and other countries. These laws cover topics like human rights (e.g., slavery, child-labor, labor rights), requiring companies to integrate these concerns into their corporate philosophy, conduct risk analysis of human rights violations within their Supply Chain, develop contingency plans to avoid suppliers with such violations, and report regularly to stakeholders and authorities.
Furthermore, the Commission of the European Union has established the EU-wide “Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive” (CS3D), which mandates these regulations and requires a transition plan for climate change mitigation, aligned with the 2050 climate neutrality objective of the Paris Agreement, to be binding for all member states of the European Union.
Supply Chain Resilience
Resilience issues can cause immediate or gradual disruption to the supply chain. These include factors like financial weaknesses of suppliers, operational or cyber-related disruptions, and geopolitical tensions. While the analysis of these risks is not required by law, they must be analyzed and eliminated as part of the company's own responsibilities.