Your Suppliers, Your Risk: Navigating the EU's Supply Chain Transparency Wave
Turn Supply Chain Compliance into a Strategic Advantage
- What's actually new since CSDDD and EUDR. Where the Critical Raw Materials Act and the Forced Labour Regulation fit into a landscape you thought you already had mapped, and why they deserve more attention than they're getting.
- Why your supplier questionnaires aren't working. Practical approaches to getting usable data out of suppliers who are already filling in five other companies' forms, including how to get past Tier 1.
- Turning supplier data into risk decisions, not just a spreadsheet. How to prioritise which suppliers need attention first, and what a credible mitigation conversation with a high-risk supplier actually looks like.
- Where this connects to what you're already doing. How supplier transparency data feeds EcoVadis scores, Scope 3 reporting, and the due diligence requests already landing from your own customers.
The Regulatory Wave: Beyond CSDDD and EUDR
The EU's supply chain transparency agenda is arriving via four overlapping frameworks: CRMA, EUDR, Forced Labour Regulation, and CSDDD. For large manufacturers in Central and Eastern Europe, relying on scattered spreadsheets is no longer enough to withstand rigorous audits.
This session bridges the gap between complex legal obligations and operational software tools. We will map these regulations against CEE manufacturing realities, showing you how to identify hidden liabilities deep within tier-structured supply chains and minimize manual administrative workloads.
Overcoming Supplier Fatigue
Large suppliers are buried in repetitive questionnaires from EcoVadis, customers, and industry platforms. Smaller vendors often lack the capacity to respond at all. Traditional data collection is breaking down under its own weight. Deloitte's experts share what actually works on the ground:
- Strategic Segmentation: Prioritise where to focus data collection first, based on risk and exposure rather than alphabetical supplier lists
- Data Minimisation: Use public data, registries, and risk databases before asking suppliers for anything they don't have to provide
- Commercial Framing: Tie data requests to contract renewals and order volumes, so they carry real weight with suppliers
- Defining "Good" Data: What actually counts as sufficient for customer due diligence requests and Scope 3 reporting
- Deep Visibility: Practical ways to get meaningful insight into Tier 2 and beyond, where the highest-risk exposure usually sits
Who Should Attend
This practical, non-theoretical session is designed for senior professionals at companies managing multi-tier supply chains (including Automotive, Electronics, Industrials, and Chemicals):
- CSOs, Sustainability Directors & ESG Managers managing regulatory compliance.
- Procurement & Supply Chain Directors handling ESG requirements from global customers.
- Sustainability Consultants & Advisors building robust supply chain programs.
Co-hosted by denxpert and Deloitte. All registrants will receive a recording of the session after the event.
(Includes access to our live 10-minute Q&A session directly with our panel of sustainability experts)
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