Leather Supply Chain Mapping Packages
Supply chain mapping helps your business establish traceability and knowledge of your supply chain, which is crucial to making long-term business decisions and puts you in a position of strength when developing policy, communicating to your customers or when reporting performance.
Eurofins | BLC has developed a range of leather supply chain mapping products and now offers three support packages designed to match your business needs:
- Package 1 – Comprehensive Mapping Project
A complete service designed to give you a full understanding of your supply chain. - Package 2 – Expertise Support Package
Designed for those who are already mapping other elements of their supply chain and want to access our expert knowledge of the leather industry. - Package 3 – Light Touch Questionnaire
Designed for those with a mapping system in place for other materials who would like to generate data on their leather supply chain.
Package 1 – Comprehensive Mapping Project
Eurofins | BLC has developed the leather supply chain mapping tool to help you understand what your supply chain looks like and where the connections are. Our tool includes an interactive geographical map identifying locations and functions within your supply chain footprint. We use our expertise in the leather industry to complete a risk analysis of the top five hotspots of activity within your leather supply chain. Eurofins | BLC will produce a report and provide an onsite presentation of your information to your chosen internal stakeholders. You can use this information to make informed sustainable sourcing decisions, respond to scrutiny and ensure compliance to legislation.
Package 2 – Expert Support Package
Eurofins | BLC will apply our knowledge and expertise to help you generate and get the most out of your leather supply chain data. We will design and produce a tailored supply chain questionnaire for you and conduct a sense check on the data you get back using our expertise in the leather industry. Further, we will conduct a risk analysis on the regions where you have a high concentration of suppliers considering issues such as environmental and social sensitivities, legislation and governance. Eurofins | BLC can offer this to Members at a discounted rate.
Package 3 – Light Touch Questionnaire
Eurofins | BLC can support you to develop a questionnaire to send to your suppliers in order to map your leather supply chain. This will be designed to ensure you get the highest rate of return possible and that you ask the right questions to map the leather supply chain. The product would include a visit to your site to understand the particular elements of your supply chain you would like to map. Eurofins | BLC can offer this to Members at a discounted rate.
Leather supply chain mapping can help your business make better-informed decisions. Contact Eurofins | BLC today to discuss how we can map your supply chain via info@leathersustainability.com or call +44 (0) 1604 679 999 for further information.
Benefits of Leather Supply Chain Mapping
Supply chain mapping builds on your understanding of what your supply chain looks like and where the connections are. This supply chain tool will help your business locate individual connections on a global scale, manage potential supply chain risks, and identify where value can be added.
This supply chain mapping tool can be used in a variety of global industries where leather is present, including:
- Footwear – Read our most recent testimonial from British footwear brand Hotter Shoes
- Clothing and apparel
- Accessories and leather goods
- Luggage
- Leather manufacturing
At Eurofins | BLC, our technical experts will provide your business with 1-2-1 guidance and support, so you can effectively manage your supply chain.
Leather Supply Chain Mapping with Eurofins | BLC will:
- Help you frame the scope of your project to ensure it is fit for purpose
- Build a bespoke data-gathering tool to generate information on your supply chain to slaughterhouse level where possible
- Analyse and verify data using our industry expertise
- Plot and build an interactive geographical map identifying locations and functions within your supply chain
- Complete a risk analysis of the top five hotspots of activity within your supply chain
- Present the supply chain mapping software and risk analysis to your chosen group of stakeholders
- Host your data and provide you with access logins to your supply chain mapping software account
Talk to a Eurofins | BLC supply chain mapping expert today and find out how to get your mapping started via info@leathersustainability.com or call +44 (0) 1604 679 999 for further information.
