Challenge: A consultant-led approach that had reached its limit

For the first few years of its modern slavery reporting obligations, Latrobe Health took a consultant-led, deadline-reactive approach focused on producing a statement that met the minimum compliance obligation. Responsibility was largely handed over to external advisors, meaning the team was always working to meet someone else's timeline, methodology, and processes.

As board and community expectations evolved, several limitations of this approach emerged:

• Loss of ownership: By outsourcing to consultants, the team limited its ability to take ownership of their modern slavery program or embed risk considerations into day-to-day procurement and risk management activities.
  
  
• Lack of scalability: Conducting risk assessment on even a fraction of their 600+ supplier base through consultant-led or manual methods would have taken months. This was not viable for a lean risk and compliance team operating in a highly regulated industry.
  
  
• Limited defensibility: Working within a consultant's methodology meant the team could not fully interrogate, explain, or defend the outputs they were given.

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A scalable, streamlined approach was needed to help Latrobe Health meet its compliance obligations and advance its due diligence to best practice quickly.

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“We're a small to medium business with a small risk and compliance function in a heavily regulated environment. Modern slavery is one category of focus, but we don’ t have the capacity to devote months to this. We need impactful, real insights within a week. That’s our mandate.” 

‍– Simon Tulloch, Chief Risk Officer, Latrobe Health Services

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Solution: A streamlined, data-led risk approach that fits the way Latrobe Health works

Fair Supply’s data-led methodology was a clear differentiator. Rather than relying on manual surveys from suppliers, the platform draws on global datasets to generate inherent risk assessments across an entire supply chain, enabling teams to prioritise where further due diligence is warranted. Fair Supply delivered value across the following dimensions:

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• A fast, friction-free sales and onboarding process: The time from first inquiry to a signed agreement took a matter of weeks, with no unnecessary delays or drawn-out evaluation cycles.
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• Rapid time to value: Fair Supply delivered results at a speed no consultant-led approach could match.

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• Dedicated customer success support and training: Regular check-ins with the Fair Supply customer success team and a dedicated training session for the finance team ensured Latrobe Health was supported at every stage of the process.
  
  
• Full transparency of methodology and data sources: Unlike consultant-led assessments, where the methodology is often opaque, Fair Supply's outputs are grounded in clearly documented global datasets, giving the team the confidence to explain and defend their findings.
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“We signed the agreement on October 30th, and we had our results review by November 11th. That's just unheard of.”  

– Karen Baum, Risk and Compliance Manager, Latrobe Health Services 

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