MINEAI
AI-powered supply chain risk detection and predictive analytics.
From AI-powered mapping to supplier-led assessments and independent verification, NQC’s SUPPLIERASSURANCE supply chain risk management platform delivers full visibility, defensible compliance, and actionable insights across every tier of your supply chain.
Global supply chains are vast, but visibility often stops at direct suppliers. Blind spots, hidden dependencies, and high-risk trade routes can trigger disruption without warning. These challenges are amplified by expanding regulations, geopolitical instability, environmental shocks, and rapid market shifts. Yet many organisations still rely on disconnected tools for mapping, auditing, and monitoring.
The result: gaps, delays, and exposure.
Staying competitive and compliant now demands one integrated approach that delivers insight, verification, and action in a single platform.
Global supply chain regulation is evolving rapidly. Get the latest on everything shaping global supply chains, from new regulations and tariffs to sustainability trends and trade news. We update this section every week, so check back to stay informed and ahead of the curve.
New U.S. tariffs: 10 % on lumber and 25 % on furniture, adding strain to global trade. Read more here.
Mercedes cuts CO₂ emissions by 40 % using low-carbon aluminium in its new electric CLA model. Read more here.
Malaysia’s palm oil sector welcomes the EU deforestation law delay, citing implementation concerns. Read more here.
Brazil pledges $1 billion toward the Tropical Forests Forever Facility to support rainforest conservation ahead of COP30. Read more here.
EU aluminium producers push for a 30% levy on scrap exports after shipments hit a record 1.26 million tons in 2024, much of it bound for Asia. Read more here.
ExxonMobil escalates its opposition to the EU’s Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), warning of impacts on investment and supply chains. Read more here.
India’s IT sector faces disruption after the U.S. imposes a $100,000 fee on new H-1B visas, a move expected to trigger legal challenges and raise operating costs. Read more here.
Evidence over assumptions. Verified supply chain transparency.
Powered by NQC, SUPPLIERASSURANCE is an integrated platform that facilitates the supply chain due diligence cycle. While many platforms stop at AI mapping, SUPPLIERASSURANCE goes further by enabling supplier-led traceability, independent verification and corrective action tracking. It is aligned with the OECD risk-based framework of identification, risk assessment and mitigation, helping organisations strengthen transparency and respond to compliance requirements.
AI-powered supply chain risk detection and predictive analytics.
Multi-tier supply chain visibility and supplier mapping.
Continuous supplier risk monitoring and ESG tracking.
Trusted supplier audits, compliance checks, and corrective action support.
Global standard for supplier sustainability and responsible sourcing.
Standardized, defensible reporting to uncover forced labour risks across supply chains.
Learn about the DDRT framework, created by AIAG and major OEMs, which sets a new standard for forced labour due diligence by unifying reporting requirements, improving data defensibility, and enhancing supplier accountability worldwide.
Achim Döll
Head of Strategic Purchasing & Strategic Supplier Management Sustainability/Schaeffler
Adrien Gropallo
Strategic Purchasing & Value Sustainability Manager/ LEONI
Every directive introduces unique requirements and risks. From deforestation and forced labour to carbon reporting and conflict minerals, compliance demands visibility across multiple tiers of the supply chain.
SUPPLIERASSURANCE combines MINEAI for AI-driven mapping, MAP for supplier-led traceability, SURVEIL for continuous risk monitoring, and ASSURE for independent verification to deliver audit-ready compliance and protect your business against regulatory risk worldwide.
Introduces tariffs on carbon-intensive imports, requiring importers to calculate and report embedded emissions for EU market access.
Requires companies to identify, prevent, and address human rights and environmental risks throughout their operations and supply chains.
Requires large companies to disclose their environmental and social impacts, ensuring transparency in sustainability reporting across global supply chains.
Mandates full lifecycle transparency for batteries, including raw material sourcing, recycling processes, and carbon footprint disclosure.
Requires companies to prove commodities are deforestation-free by providing geolocation data and mapping supply chains back to their source.
European legislation is tightening around human rights due diligence. Companies must identify, assess, and mitigate forced labour risks throughout their supply chain.
Mandates importers to demonstrate goods are free from forced labour in Xinjiang through detailed traceability and defensible evidence at U.S. borders.
Speak with an expert to discuss your compliance challenges, explore best practices, and identify the right approach for your organisation.
SUPPLIERASSURANCE delivers multi-tier visibility that goes far deeper than traditional tools.
Together, these modules give organisations transparency from finished products down to raw materials, helping them manage risk and compliance across every level of the supply chain, not just Tier 1.
SUPPLIERASSURANCE is built to help organisations demonstrate compliance with a wide range of global regulations, including the EU Deforestation Regulation (EUDR), the Uyghur Forced Labour Prevention Act (UFLPA), the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), and the Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism (CBAM).
The platform aligns with the OECD Due Diligence Guidance by supporting a continuous cycle of risk identification, risk assessment, mitigation, and tracking. Each stage of the workflow is underpinned by modules designed for compliance:
This approach enables organisations to show regulators and stakeholders not only that they have mapped their supply chains, but that they are actively managing risks, mitigating impacts, and maintaining defensible evidence sets to protect market access.
Most tools stop at mapping, but SUPPLIERASSURANCE delivers the full OECD-aligned due diligence cycle. The platform is built around a continuous, risk-based process that recognises due diligence is never complete because supply chains evolve, markets shift, and new regulations emerge.
MINEAI provides a first-pass view of supply chain networks to flag potential risks.
MAP builds on this with supplier-confirmed data to improve traceability.
SURVEIL overlays external intelligence to create a more detailed and evolving risk profile.
ASSURE applies the right assessments to determine whether risks are real, independently verifies evidence, and issues corrective actions. Suppliers cycle back through ASSURE until risks are managed and progress is demonstrable.
This integrated workflow means SUPPLIERASSURANCE not only identifies and assesses risks but also drives mitigation and continuous improvement, something most platforms simply cannot provide.
Achieve multi-tier visibility and transparency across global supply chains.
Monitor supplier risks in real time to strengthen compliance and resilience.
Conduct targeted due diligence and produce defensible, compliant evidence.
Evaluate ESG performance and drive continuous improvement across your supply chain.
Meet OEM expectations with consistent, defensible due diligence reporting.