Supply Chain Risk Mapping & Mitigation

Supply Chain Risk Mapping & Mitigation for Identifying and Addressing Vulnerabilities

Identify weak links in your supply chain and prepare for potential issues so you can respond quickly and keep things running without major delays or disruptions.

QIMA’s supply chain risk mapping and mitigation services give you clear visibility into your supply network, helping you identify potential vulnerabilities and implement proactive strategies to reduce risk. Whether you're aiming to enhance resilience, ensure ESG compliance, or protect brand reputation, we help you build a transparent and adaptable supply chain that meets stakeholder expectations and drives long-term success.

On this page, you’ll find:

• Benefits of Supply Chain Risk Mapping

• Taking Action: What Is Risk Mitigation?

• QIMA Solutions

• QIMA Benefits

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Benefits of Supply Chain Risk Mapping

Supply chain risk mapping is the process of identifying and assessing potential risks in your supply chain. This includes evaluating risks related to environmental, social, and governance (ESG) factors, such as human rights violations, ecological disasters, and reputational damage.

Supply chain risk mapping brings you:

• Enhanced Visibility: Gain a clear, end-to-end view of your entire supply chain — including lower-tier suppliers — to spot vulnerabilities early.

• Proactive Risk Identification: Detect potential disruptions (e.g., geopolitical, environmental, or operational) before they impact your business.

• Improved Risk Mitigation: Develop targeted strategies to reduce risk, such as diversifying suppliers or building contingency plans.

• Informed Decision-Making: Leverage risk insights to make smarter choices around sourcing, logistics, and supplier partnerships.

• Regulatory and ESG Compliance: Meet due diligence requirements and support your sustainability goals by addressing environmental, social, and governance risks.

• Increased Supply Chain Resilience: Prepare for and adapt to disruptions more effectively, minimizing downtime and financial losses.

• Stronger Supplier Relationships: Collaborate more closely with suppliers to improve transparency, accountability, and overall performance.

• Competitive Advantage: Build a supply chain that’s not only stable and compliant, but also agile and aligned with market expectations.

Taking Action: What Is Risk Mitigation?

QIMA's risk mitigation services provide strategies and actions that reduce the likelihood and impact of disruptions in your supply chain. We help you identify potential risks and put plans in place to avoid, reduce, or respond to them quickly. It’s like having a backup plan so your business doesn’t come to a halt if something goes wrong — like a supplier delay, a natural disaster, or a regulatory change.

Supply chain risk mapping and mitigation strategies are crucial aspects of managing ESG risks and ensuring long-term supply chain sustainability.

QIMA Solutions?

Our ESG solutions are designed to help businesses across all industries manage environmental, social, and governance (ESG) risks in their supply chains. Here’s how we can help:

Onsite Supplier Audits: We offer a range of supplier audits, including environmental audits, ethical audits, structural audits, chemical audits, traceability audits, technical audits, and living wage audits. Our trained auditing teams are available globally to perform onsite assessments and interviews to help suppliers address non-conformities for continuous improvement.

Supplier Training: Our comprehensive training sessions cover various topics, including mandatory supply chain due diligence, supply chain mapping, environmental best practices, social compliance, and traceability. Our experienced trainers will work closely with your suppliers to ensure they understand and implement sustainable practices throughout their operations.

ESG Country Risk Dashboard: QIMA dashboards consolidate external factors and your supply chain data on a single platform, providing you with a comprehensive view of your supply chain risks. Our dashboards include ESG risk indicators such as CO2 emissions, child labor, and the SDG index, as well as supply chain alerts for events like epidemic outbreaks and natural disasters. Additionally, you can customize the dashboard to incorporate your own data on worker voice programs and Self-Assessment Questionnaires (SAQs), helping you pinpoint and mitigate risk areas at a glance.

Worker Voice Programs: Our worker voice programs provide direct insights from the production floor, helping you gain a complete picture of your supplier’s work environment. By integrating worker voice surveys, you can get an additional layer of reporting and objectivity. Additionally, implementing worker hotlines and proactive callback services creates a direct channel for workers to share complaints directly with auditors and end buyers.

Living Wage Gap Analysis: Our living wage gap analysis identifies gaps between workers’ actual earnings and a defined living wage across your supply chain, helping you develop targeted strategies to close those gaps. Ensuring a living wage for all workers is a growing need and a key factor in aligning with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.

Environmental Testing: We conduct environmental tests, such as wastewater testing, to help you identify and address pollution and health-related risks, pinpoint areas for improvement, and develop strategies to mitigate environmental impacts across your supply chain.

Environmental Due Diligence & Audits: We provide a thorough assessment of your suppliers' environmental performance and practices. Our experienced auditors conduct on-site audits to evaluate factors such as waste management, energy consumption, emissions control, and compliance with environmental regulations.

AI-Powered Supply Chain Risk Mitigation: QIMA Signals, our online risk management tool powered by artificial intelligence and advanced analytics, proactively monitors and analyzes data sources to provide early warnings of potential disruptions, helping you stay one step ahead of potential disruptions.

Tracking and Calculating Product's Carbon Footprint: Our QIMA Estimate Carbon Calculator helps you identify high-intensity carbon emission products in your supply chain, enabling you to calculate, analyze, prioritize, verify, and reduce your product carbon footprint.

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