Managing Supplier Surveys: Best Practices for Compliance & Supply Chain Visibility

Effective supplier surveys are essential for achieving supply chain visibility, ensuring product compliance, and meeting evolving global regulations. Whether you’re managing complex supply chains or striving for environmental sustainability, leveraging the right tools and strategies—including product compliance software and 3E Digital Product Passports—is key.

As a manufacturer of complex products, with highly regulated chemical components, it takes a large team to construct a safe and effective product that meets customer expectations.

In most cases, major manufacturers need a support system of suppliers, subcontractors, expert chemical advisors, and software solutions in order to successfully meet corporate objectives, both financial and environmental.

Although support systems are beneficial, they also introduce complexity when it comes to tracking supplier practices and reporting on compliance within the entire supply chain. Ultimately, regulatory and product compliance is not piecemeal, and the overarching manufacturer is responsible for corporate compliance and reporting to relevant agencies.

Product compliance requires transparency from all parties involved. As such, there needs to be open communication that is organized and recorded for compliance purposes. This is where product compliance software comes into play.