Complex supply chains create risks for brands, retailers, and manufacturers, often making it difficult to trace raw materials back to their source. This lack of transparency threatens worker well-being, animal welfare, and environmental protection.
Traceability applies across industries—from food and electronics to furniture and apparel—helping brands track materials, assess supplier operations, and verify sustainability claims. Essential for brand integrity, it mitigates risk and strengthens accountability.
With extensive experience in traceability assessments, ANE Advisors tailors its approach to meet client objectives. By working closely with supply chains, ANE ensures effective traceability mechanisms, providing confidence to buyers, brands, consumers, and key stakeholders.
The social compliance landscape for renewable and nonrenewable energy has evolved over the past decade, driven by expanding legislation and growing supply chain transparency requirements. Companies are now accountable for their practices from sourcing to final production.
Ensuring compliance in the energy sector requires specialized expertise, particularly in remote locations like oil rigs, vessels, wind farms, and coal mines, as well as traditional supply chains such as manufacturing and offices. Workers often come from different countries through various agencies, making employment terms unclear and increasing risks to their rights and welfare. Identifying applicable policies and laws requires thorough investigation across multiple labor agencies and jurisdictions.
ANE Associates works closely with clients, remote sites, subcontractors, and labor agencies to ensure worker welfare aligns with local laws and company standards. This comprehensive approach strengthens compliance efforts and provides confidence to brands, civil society organizations, and legislators.
Corporate responsibility has no one-size-fits-all solution. ANE Associates helps identify tailored strategies, offering expertise from Fortune 500 boardrooms to factory floors. Whether addressing high-profile challenges or routine compliance issues, ANE provides valuable insight and solutions.
Our experts guide clients through issues such as:
When sourcing risks or regulatory changes arise, a closer look at supplier practices is essential. ANE Associates provides objective third-party expertise to evaluate your options.
Our experts help define project scope, select research methodologies, establish key partnerships, and execute assessments worldwide through our trusted network. Let us guide you to informed, strategic decisions.
Trained by a U.S. Department of Labor veteran in Wage & Hour Audits nearly two decades ago, ANE experts built on this foundation to expand social audits from the U.S. garment sector to global supply chains across Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas.
ANE has developed custom audit programs for Fortune 500 companies, covering:
A sustainable CSR program requires an informed and engaged supply chain. From boardrooms to factory floors, effective training ensures all stakeholders understand key CSR concepts, provide feedback, and contribute to program success.
ANE Associates offers worker and management training at every level, delivered in local languages by experienced trainers across 50+ countries. Our interactive approach enhances retention, addresses concerns, and drives program improvements.
Training topics include:
We also provide customized training and executive sessions on CSR fundamentals, responsible purchasing, transparency, human trafficking, and material traceability.
Transportation issues are gaining increasing attention, from high-profile media investigations to new legislation affecting supply chains. For example, California's recent SB 1402 law holds importers jointly liable with trucking providers for labor law violations. How well do you understand this aspect of your supply chain?
With deep expertise in the transportation sector, ANE Associates is uniquely equipped to help you address critical challenges, including:
Let ANE guide you in developing solutions to ensure compliance and improve accountability in your transportation operations.
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