Worldly, the leading sustainability and supply chain intelligence platform for the consumer goods industry, announced the launch of Supplier Compliance Management, a new AI-powered solution that consumer goods brands use to manage and reduce risk. Brands can now manage social audits and remediation more efficiently and drive real improvements across their supply chains faster than ever before.

The stakes have never been higher. U.S. Customs and Border Protection has stopped nearly $4 billion in shipments over forced labour concerns since 20221, and the EU's forced labour regulation, set to be enforced in 20272, will extend that scrutiny across global markets. Compliance teams navigating these pressures have long reconciled data across multiple audit frameworks, manually mapping findings to their own Codes of Conduct, and chasing remediation through email chains with no clear ownership or follow-up.

Supplier Compliance Management eliminates that complexity. The solution ingests third-party audits, brand-defined custom assessments, and data from the Higg Facility Social & Labour Module (Higg FSLM, stewarded and governed by Cascale). It uses AI to map findings to a brand's Code of Conduct and to recognised global frameworks, including ILO Core Labour Standards and the Cascale Risk Framework.

"Managing compliance across our supplier base used to mean reconciling data from multiple audit frameworks and spreadsheets, then mapping it all back to our Code of Conduct manually," said Simone Colombo, Head of Corporate Sustainability, OVS. "Worldly's Supplier Compliance Management brings everything together in one place, giving us a much clearer picture of where risks exist and what is being done to address them — and saving us an enormous amount of time."

The AI at the core of the solution doesn't just speed up existing workflows; it changes what's possible. Now, consumer goods brands can:

Manage the full compliance lifecycle in one system, from audits to remediation to improvement tracking

Standardise classification and severity scoring across facilities, regions, and audit frameworks, mapping multiple audits to a brand’s Code of Conduct with AI

Structure a corrective action plan, governance and increase compliance program efficacy

"We've spent years building the largest network of verified supplier data in the consumer goods industry, with more than 40,000 facilities submitting primary data on the Worldly platform," said Kathryn Smith, Vice President, Human Rights Risk Solutions at Worldly. "Supplier Compliance Management turns that foundation into something compliance teams have never had before: a single system that connects what audits find to what a brand's own standards require, and tracks whether conditions are actually improving. That's not incremental. It changes how compliance programs operate."