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What Is Supply Chain Risk Management?
The cornerstone guide: what SCRM is, the four things it has to do, and why continuous monitoring replaces the annual audit.
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Supply Chain Risk Center: global disruptions, regulatory risks, supplier instability, geopolitical threats and logistics bottlenecks
Plain-language guides to the risks and the laws behind them, a finder for the laws that reach your company, a real use case, and a quarterly index of where sourcing risk is moving. Free to read.
Law finder
Which laws reach your company?
Four questions, nine laws, an answer in plain words, each linked to its guide.
LIKELY TO REACH YOU (1)
- EUDR You place these commodities on the EU market.Guide
CHECK, THE LIMITS ARE MOVING (0)
None from your answers.
THROUGH YOUR CUSTOMERS (3)
Not likely: DDV, NTA, CBAM, 3TG, UFLPA.
Our reading of each law, simplified. Not legal advice: check with your counsel before you rely on it.
Guides
From first principles to the fine print.
- Start here8 minWhat Is Supply Chain Risk Management?The cornerstone guide: what SCRM is, the four things it has to do, and why continuous monitoring replaces the annual audit.8 min
- Start here5 minWhat Is Supplier Risk Monitoring?Why annual audits and country-risk averages fail, and what continuous supplier-level monitoring looks like.5 min
- Start here4 minA Framework for Supplier Risk: Internal vs ExternalA clear supplier-risk framework — external vs internal, soft vs hard — from founder research at CBS, and why each type needs different monitoring.4 min
- Start here4 minTrust Over Audit: Supply Chain TransparencySupply chains run on trust because transparency was too hard to get. Why audits are a weak substitute, and how continuous visibility changes it.4 min
- Regulation & compliance6 minCSRD Supply Chain Reporting: A Practical GuideThe ESRS disclosure areas that reach into your value chain, and how report packs build from live supplier data.6 min
- Regulation & compliance6 minLkSG Supplier Monitoring: What §2 RequiresThe section 2 risk catalogue, section 10 documentation, and continuous due diligence for Germany's supply chain act.6 min
- Regulation & compliance3 minEuropean Due Diligence Laws: Beyond the LkSGThe LkSG is one of several European due-diligence laws. How Norway's Transparency Act and France's Duty of Vigilance work, and why one program fits all.3 min
- Regulation & compliance5 minThe EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR): A Supply Chain GuideThe EUDR requires deforestation-free, geolocated commodities. What it covers, why plot-level traceability is hard, and how monitoring helps.5 min
- Regulation & compliance4 minForced Labour in the Supply Chain: UFLPA & ScreeningForced labour now carries real enforcement (UFLPA, LkSG, CSDDD). How continuous supplier-level screening surfaces the signals questionnaires miss.4 min
The laws
Nine laws, side by side.
What each one asks of your supply chain, and the guide that explains it. One monitoring capability serves all of them.
| LAW | WHERE | WHAT IT ASKS OF YOUR SUPPLY CHAIN | Guide |
|---|---|---|---|
| CSRDCorporate Sustainability Reporting Directive | EU | Assured sustainability reporting under the ESRS, with datapoints that reach into your value chain. Supplier ESG data becomes a disclosure obligation, not a nice-to-have. | Guide |
| CSDDDCorporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive | EU | Mandatory human-rights and environmental due diligence across the value chain, EU-wide. The European baseline the national laws are converging toward. | Guide |
| LkSGLieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz | Germany | Germany's supply chain act: a fixed §2 risk catalogue every supplier must be assessed against, continuous risk analysis, and §10 documentation duties, enforced by BAFA. | Guide |
| EUDREU Deforestation Regulation | EU | Deforestation-free, geolocated, legally produced commodities: cattle, cocoa, coffee, palm oil, rubber, soy, wood. Traceability down to the plot of land.Intellens supports EUDR risk assessment and supplier evidence collection: country and commodity risk signals, structured supplier declarations on geolocation, deforestation-free sourcing and legality, and an evidence pack for your file. Plot-level traceability data and the due-diligence statement itself stay with you. | Guide |
| UFLPAUyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act | United States | US Customs can detain goods on a rebuttable presumption of forced labour. The importer must prove otherwise. Part of a global wave of forced-labour import bans. | Guide |
| CBAMCarbon Border Adjustment Mechanism | EU | A carbon price on imported steel, aluminium, cement, fertilisers, electricity and hydrogen. Reporting embedded emissions requires installation-level supplier data. | Guide |
| 3TGConflict Minerals Regulation | EU / US | Due diligence on tin, tantalum, tungsten and gold back to the smelter and mine, aligned with OECD guidance, with material-level traceability through the tiers. | Guide |
| NTANorwegian Transparency Act (Åpenhetsloven) | Norway | OECD-aligned human-rights due diligence with a twist: your account of it is public, and anyone may request information, answerable on a statutory deadline. | Guide |
| DDVFrench Duty of Vigilance (Devoir de Vigilance) | France | A vigilance plan identifying and preventing severe human-rights and environmental impacts, with civil liability attached. Judged on substance, not paperwork. | Guide |
Use case
Relok: a car-sharing fleet, watched supplier by supplier.
Relok buys used cars and rents them out, about 130 of them on the streets of Copenhagen. Every car depends on the dealers it came from, the workshops that keep it running, and the parts and tyres those workshops fit.
RelokCar sharing, CopenhagenEarly design partner- TIER 1The dealers it buys fromUsed cars bought from dealers and importers, each one a company with owners, a reputation and a site.
- TIER 1The workshops that keep it runningService, repairs and tyre changes for a fleet that has to stay on the street every day.
- DEEPER IN THE CHAINThe parts and tyres they fitMade in factories far from Copenhagen, where a fire, a strike or a price jump decides what a repair costs.
WHAT INTELLENS WATCHES FOR RELOK
- ResilienceDisasters, conflict and port slowdowns near the factories behind the parts, so a shortage is seen before a car stands still.
- EfficiencyRubber, steel and other price moves set against the parts the fleet runs on, before they reach the workshop invoice.
- ResponsibilitySanctions, owners and labour news on every dealer and supplier, checked every day, so the fleet stays compliant.
“Intellens helped us with transparency into our supply chain. Not only with information but also with suggested guidance that made it easy for us to manage operations, stay compliant and save costs. Overall, we have gotten a more efficient, resilient and responsible supply chain.”
Intellens research
The Quarterly Supply Chain Risk Index
Every quarter, an aggregated and anonymised view of supply chain risk: the riskiest sourcing countries, the biggest movers and the regulatory hotspots. Built on the same scoring the platform runs. Free, four times a year.
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