Industry leading companies join forces to discuss responsible sourcing best practices

DALLAS: Transparency-One, ISN®’s responsible sourcing platform built to help bring transparency to supply chain management, hosted its third industry roundtable focused on responsible sourcing and supplier engagement within the consumer packaged goods (CPG) industry. The event, held on October 14 in Chicago, brought together sustainability and procurement leaders from across the CPG sector to discuss shared challenges and strategic solutions.

Transparency-One's roundtable series serves as a forum for peer collaboration among responsible sourcing leaders looking to navigate emerging regulations, enhance supply chain traceability, and optimize supplier data. To date, over 17 leading CPG brands have participated in the roundtable discussions. Attendees voiced concerns about disparate technologies and inconsistent approaches to supplier engagement. Sustainability KPIs remain a top barrier to mapping high-risk supply chains to the raw material level.

“Supply chain transparency is critical to the entire value chain, from CPG companies to farmers,” said Emily Johannes of Farm Journal. “Aligning as an industry is the key to driving efficiency and making meaningful change.”

Attendees emphasized the need to reduce duplicative efforts across brands, improve decision-making through better supplier data, and align on a shared framework for risk evaluation. The group also discussed pressing regulatory shifts, including evolving enforcement under the Uyghur Forced Labor Prevention Act, the Food Safety Modernization Act, and the proposed U.S. Cosmetics Supply Chain Act.

“Transparency-One is committed to building safer, more transparent supply chains with advanced network capabilities, regulatory insights, and traceability solutions," said Brittany Sizemore, Senior Vice President at Transparency-One. "By facilitating these discussions, we’re helping CPG brands collaborate on practical, tech-enabled strategies to meet evolving compliance demands and sustainability goals."

For more information on Transparency-One’s supply chain mapping and responsible sourcing solutions, visit transparency-one.com.

About ISN

ISN is the global leader in contractor and supplier information management, with more than 20 years of experience connecting 850 Hiring Clients and Buyers in capital-intensive industries with 85,000 active contractors and suppliers to promote safety, health, and sustainability in the workplace. ISN’s brands include ISNetworld®, a global online contractor and supplier management platform, Transparency-One®, a responsible sourcing platform built to bring transparency to supply chain management, and Empower®, a worker-level app built to keep workers moving forward.

ISN has 14 offices around the globe which provide award-winning support and training for its customers in more than 85 countries. ISN takes pride in leading worldwide efforts to improve the efficiency and effectiveness of contractor and supplier management systems and in serving as a world-class forum for sharing industry best practices, benchmarking performance, providing data insights among its members, and helping decision makers, including board members, ensure contractor and supplier risk is assessed and monitored. For more information, visit isn.com.

Fonte: Business Wire