ISG Offers New Advisory and Risk Management Service to Support Modern Slavery Reporting and Compliance
Information Services Group (Nasdaq: III) launched a new advisory service to assist businesses with compliance to modern slavery legislation across six countries, including California. The service leverages the ISG GovernX® platform to enhance risk management by mapping supply chains. ISG advisors will help clients develop a compliance framework, conduct training, and integrate anti-slavery clauses in contracts. With over 40 million people affected globally, enterprises face legal obligations and potential penalties for non-compliance, emphasizing the need for thorough supplier management.
- Launch of a new advisory service dedicated to modern slavery compliance.
- Utilization of the ISG GovernX platform for automated risk monitoring.
- Addresses legal obligations across multiple countries, enhancing market relevance.
- Potential financial penalties for businesses failing to comply with modern slavery laws.
- High complexity in managing extensive supplier networks, possibly leading to compliance risks.
Service leverages ISG GovernX® platform to help enterprises map and monitor supply chains
The new ISG offering combines advisory services with the automated capabilities of ISG GovernX®, the industry’s only governance solution that integrates contract information, strategic relationship management and real-time risk monitoring to help clients manage their supplier ecosystems.
ISG advisors will help clients develop a modern slavery framework, review and update policies across the enterprise, conduct training, map their entire supply chain, and add modern slavery clauses to contract templates, while the ISG GovernX platform will provide thorough, timely reporting through its automatic alert feature.
“The United Nations and international labor organizations estimate that more than 40 million people worldwide are subject to modern slavery, including forced labor, debt bondage, forced marriage, slavery and slavery-like practices and human trafficking. The probability of finding slavery deep in enterprise supplier tiers could be as high as 70 percent,” said
Supplier management that is thorough enough to ensure modern slavery compliance cannot be done without technology, McBlain said, noting many organizations have thousands or even tens of thousands of suppliers—far too many to contemplate mapping and monitoring by hand.
“Supplier management and reporting are at the heart of all modern slavery legislation,” McBlain said. “Each law requires businesses to annually report on how they audit their suppliers for slavery risks, as well as the specific policies, procedures and training they have put in place to verify the integrity of their supply chains. The latest legislation mandates financial penalties for organizations that fail to comply.”
ISG GovernX automatically sends assessments to each supplier requiring them to provide information on their modern slavery framework, reporting, policies and training, and monitors external data feeds for all potential risks within the specific supplier ecosystem and the broader marketplace. Users can add a variety of external intelligent workflows to identify and categorize each risk, alert the appropriate functions, and trigger automated responses, including targeted risk assessments to the suppliers involved.
ISG has been addressing modern slavery legislation since 2018, when it first drew legislative focus. The firm has created and implemented a global framework to ensure ISG itself is not linked to modern slavery risks and has developed an in-depth knowledge of the legislation and associated requirements while working to meet obligations in
Additional information on ISG third-party risk management is available on the ISG website, and further insights on modern slavery are available by viewing the recent ISG Smartalks™ webinar, “Modern Slavery Legislation in
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