FAQs

Fair Supply Analyst surfaces real-time signals from trusted third-party data sources, public information and allegations alongside data from global macroeconomic modelling to provide a comprehensive view of risk exposure and known issues. 

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Yes. Fair Supply Analyst enables a side-by-side comparison across multiple suppliers with standardised risk assessments across multiple critical dimensions to inform procurement decisions.

You can run a supplier assessment with just basic details—such as business name, website, or business ID number.

Fair Supply reduces the cost and complexity of ESG risk assessment by automating supplier and portfolio screening, supporting regulatory readiness, and lowering exposure to reputational, operational, and compliance risk. This translates into more informed decisions, streamlined reporting, and increased stakeholder trust.

Fair Supply is built for scale—whether you're rolling it out across multiple procurement teams, subsidiaries, or international portfolios. The platform requires minimal input to get started and can support both global and decentralised operating models.

Yes. Fair Supply delivers defensible, standards-aligned ESG data that supports external reporting and investor engagement. It helps you demonstrate proactive risk management and alignment with global sustainability benchmarks.

Fair Supply provides a single platform to quantify ESG risks across your supply chain or investment portfolio. It enables leadership teams to embed ESG into core decision-making—supporting regulatory compliance, operational resilience, and long-term value creation.

More information about Fair Supply’s information security governance can be found under Data Security and Privacy.

Yes. All assessments are fully traceable to underlying data sources, and outputs can be exported in formats suitable for internal audit, compliance reports, or regulator engagement.

Yes. Fair Supply aligns with leading frameworks including IFRS S2, ESRS, TCFD, CDP, and GRI. This ensures your organisation’s ESG reporting is defensible, credible, and aligned with evolving legal requirements across jurisdictions.

Fair Supply provides audit-ready ESG risk assessments that align with global regulatory frameworks. Legal teams can use the platform’s outputs to evaluate supplier and portfolio risk exposure, support internal governance, and meet statutory obligations such as modern slavery or environmental disclosures.

Implementation is fast and low-friction. The platform requires only basic input data—such as a company name and investment amount—and delivers immediate ESG risk screening across modern slavery, carbon emissions, and biodiversity for your entire portfolio.

Yes. Fair Supply generates ESG risk indicators even when investee companies have limited or no public disclosures. It uses company-level inputs such as sector, location, and spend, along with verified third-party sources and economic modelling, to produce defensible, asset-specific ESG insights.

Yes. Fair Supply is designed to scale across multi-asset portfolios, geographies, and investment strategies. It enables investors to screen both public and private companies for ESG risks, making it ideal for portfolio-wide implementation in private equity, venture, or institutional asset management.

Yes. Fair Supply allows you to monitor and compare ESG risk profiles across suppliers and reporting periods—helping you track progress, identify emerging risks, and demonstrate year-on-year improvements in your sustainability strategy.

Fair Supply provides ESG data and analytics aligned with global sustainability frameworks such as TCFD, GRI, IFRS S2, and CDP. This enables sustainability teams to generate accurate, audit-ready reports and meet both mandatory and voluntary disclosure requirements with confidence.

Fair Supply supports continuous monitoring of ESG risks across your supplier base. It provides real-time insights that inform contract renewals, risk mitigation plans, and strategic supplier engagement.

Yes. Fair Supply is designed to integrate into existing sourcing, contract management, and risk workflows, supporting ESG screening without requiring major changes to your current systems.

Fair Supply enables procurement teams to assess ESG risks—such as modern slavery, carbon emissions, and biodiversity impact—before engaging new suppliers or renewing existing contracts. This helps ensure that selected suppliers meet your organisation’s sustainability and ethical standards from the outset.

Fair Supply validates responses using logic rules and third-party benchmarks. High-risk answers may trigger manual review or escalation.

Fair Supply applies best-practice security protocols, including ISO 27001–certified processes, encryption at rest and in transit, and strict access controls. The platform is designed to comply with global data protection standards, including GDPR.

Data sources include the UN System, Eurostat, OECD, Global Slavery Index, ILO, PRIMAP, EDGAR, GRI, and IFRS-aligned disclosure frameworks.

Yes. Fair Supply’s Information Security Management System is certified against ISO27001:2013.

Yes - onboarding and support services are included as part of your Fair Supply contract. A dedicated Customer Success Manager will be assigned to your account to assist through onboarding, implementation and support. They will also schedule regular check in meetings to ensure you are getting the most out of your experience.

Fair Supply platform pricing is based on several factors: the function you require (compliance and reporting, supplier due diligence or both), which solution you need (modern slavery, emissions, biodiversity) and the scale of your supply chain. Talk to one of our specialists who will be able to walk you through the best option for your business.

The platform maps tariff effects across transactions, simulates price propagation, and outputs cost increases by product and supplier.

Direct tariffs apply to goods at point of import. Indirect tariffs refer to upstream price increases caused by tariffs on components or inputs.

The calculator assesses the cost impact of global tariffs by simulating price increases across multi-tier supply chains using Fair Supply’s MRIO engine.

Yes. Fair Supply enables organisations to compare biodiversity impact scores across suppliers, industries, regions, and supply chain tiers. This helps procurement and ESG teams prioritise actions where species loss or habitat pressure is highest.

nSTAR stands for non-normalised Species Threat Abatement and Restoration and quantifies a supplier’s contribution to biodiversity loss by region and sector.

Biodiversity impact is measured through nSTAR scores that combine economic activity, habitat overlap, and species threat data from IUCN and IBAT.

Fair Supply uses Environmentally Extended Input-Output (EEIO) analysis to model Scope 3 emissions based on supplier spend, sector, geography, and economic activity across up to 10 tiers.

Yes. Fair Supply provides guided calculators to help organisations estimate and report their Scope 1 (direct) and Scope 2 (energy-related) emissions. The outputs align with leading frameworks like the GHG Protocol, CDP, IFRS S2, and ESRS, making them suitable for formal audits, disclosures, and internal climate targets.

Fair Supply provides both a Scope 1 and 2 Emissions Calculator and a Scope 3 Supply Chain Assessment using EEIO modeling.

Fair Supply classifies modern slavery risk using both a numerical score and a 5-point rating scale: Low, Moderate Low, Moderate, Moderate High, and High. These classifications are based on the distribution of forced labour risk across global industry and geography, enabling meaningful comparison and prioritisation of suppliers.

Key sources include the Global Slavery Index, ILO Global Estimates, U.S. TIP Reports, Department of Labor Goods List, and economic activity data.

Modern slavery risk is assessed by combining MRIO models with data from the Global Slavery Index, ILO, and U.S. government sources. Risk is quantified across supply chains and expressed as estimated people in forced labour per million dollars spent.

Yes. Teams can assign suppliers for review, share supplier assessments and track historical searches within the platform.

It combines inherent exposure (location, industry) with any known incidents, investigations, or third-party reports.

Yes. Fair Supply models supplier networks up to 10 tiers, helping you identify ESG risks that exist deep within your upstream supply chain.

You can search by business name, website, or alias. Results are delivered instantly and include supplier-specific ESG risk profiles.

Analyst is designed for procurement, ESG, and risk teams performing due diligence during sourcing, onboarding, or supplier renewal.

Fair Supply Analyst is a supplier-specific ESG risk tool that flags exposure and specific issues related to modern slavery—using sector, region, and real-time incident data.

Yes. You can export Fair Supply reports in PDF or CSV formats for ESG audits, board reporting, or internal governance reviews.

Yes. Fair Supply generates standards-aligned risk outputs that procurement teams can use directly in RFPs, tender submissions, and supplier due diligence responses.

The Fair Supply platform aligns with TCFD, CDP, IFRS S2, ESRS E1, GRI 305, and PCAF frameworks. All outputs are audit-ready.

Fair Supply outputs are formatted to align with global ESG frameworks and statutory reporting needs, including CDP, IFRS S2, and ESRS.

Fair Supply uses a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) model to trace procurement spend through countries, sectors, and tiers, calculating ESG exposure across complex networks.

Fair Supply provides data-driven assessments of supplier ESG risk by tracing financial flows across global supply chains using MRIO methodology. It reveals exposure to modern slavery, emissions, and biodiversity loss at the supplier, sector, and geographic level.

Fair Supply offers transparent, supplier-specific results using trusted global datasets—unlike many platforms that rely on opaque scoring or industry averages.

To begin using Fair Supply, you need just a list of suppliers and your annual spend per supplier. For individual supplier checks, you only need the business name or website.

Fair Supply is designed for procurement, ESG, compliance, and investment professionals—especially those with modern slavery or environmental reporting obligations or those managing complex, global supply chains.

The platform’s Integrated Assessment Engine traces financial flows through global supply chains using MRIO methodology to model ESG impacts across up to 10 tiers of suppliers.

Fair Supply is a cloud-based ESG risk intelligence platform that enables organisations to assess supplier and supply chain risk across modern slavery, carbon emissions, and biodiversity. It uses advanced supply chain modeling and AI research agents to produce audit-ready, defensible results.

Penalties will be introduced for non-compliance, which includes failing to submit a statement or providing false information.

Companies are required to disclose the steps they are taking to address modern slavery. Companies must undertake due diligence to prevent, mitigate, and remedy modern slavery and worker exploitation.

The legislation applies to a wide range of entities in private and public sectors, with an annual revenue over $20 million, which includes around 4000 entities in New Zealand.

Fair Supply’s API ensures effortless integration of Fair Supply’s data in your existing procurement and supply chain management systems.

In addition to spend amounts, we require the names of your suppliers, their locations (country only), their ABN, the primary industry in which they operate and your classification.

The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened species is the global authority on the conservation status of animal, fungi and plant species. This dataset contains detailed information on more than 134,000 species. Each species is assigned an extinction risk category based on an expert assessment. Importantly, the IUCN Red List also contains information on the nature of the threats to each species. Habitat maps provide spatial information which rounds out the information required to connect species impacts to consumption patterns. The information curated in the IUCN Red List was used to generate the non-normalised Species Threat Abatement and Restoration (nSTAR) metric. This unit-less metric converts the extinction risk classification of each species, and the scope and severity of the threats acting on it, into a numeric value which provides an indicator of how likely that species is to move closer to extinction. The nSTAR value for each species, economic sector, and country can be calculated, providing the underlying metric for use with Fair Supply’s Integrated Assessment Engine.

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Fair Supply provides visibility over Scope 3 GHG emissions along your supply chain thanks to our Integrated Assessment Engine (IAE). The backbone of our IAE is a multi-region input output (MRIO) supply chain database built out of several hundred data sources. The emissions data source is primarily based on The Potsdam Institute for Climate Change’s PRIMAP database and the EDGAR emissions database. Developed by recognised global authority on environmental and social footprinting, Associate Professor Arne Geschke, Fair Supply’s co-founder and CTO, our Integrated Assessment Engine is capable of assessing approximately 40 billion supply chains, represented in more than 1.8 billion monetary transaction values and price-layering information. It draws information from more than 200 economic source datasets for more than 200 industry sectors in more than 200 countries, and utilises state-of-the-art methods to assess the supply chain impacts. The methodology is well-established, especially for environmental problems and within academia.

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Fair Supply’s platform provides customisable news scraping and alerts related to ESG issues and risks including modern slavery. For example, you can designate supplier specific related news. You can also select relevant RSS feeds.

Fair Supply’s platform provides strong supplier due diligence and assessment capability. Once we have received your spend data, we map your supply chain and provide an industry risk rating for each supplier in your supply chain, enabling you to identify high-risk suppliers. The risk mitigation activities of each supplier are evaluated through a Supplier Questionnaire sent and processed by our platform. In addition to the services available through our platform, we also offer consulting services, such as deep-dive due diligence reports, procurement playbooks and roadmaps.

Fair Supply’s platform enables you to track your progress in addressing ESG risks and meeting compliance goals. We graphically reflect your progress over time allowing you to easily compare previous assessments. Your assessment results can be used to assist in reporting.