Starting point
The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG) requires obligated companies to systematically analyse human-rights and environmental risks across their supply chains, take action, run a grievance mechanism, and document all of it in an audit-proof way for BAFA, the enforcing federal authority. The consultancy initially delivered this per client with spreadsheets, Word templates, and email: sound on substance, but with no consistent process, no traceability, and an annual report painstakingly stitched together by hand. It wanted to turn its methodological know-how into its own reusable product.
Solution
Working alongside the firm's subject-matter experts, we built an application that covers the entire LkSG due-diligence process — from supply-chain structure analysis to the finished regulatory report. A multi-step, guided workflow per supplier leads through degree of fulfilment, risk analysis, and risk assessment, so every rating ends up fully derived and evidenced.
- Guided workflow from structure analysis to the risk matrix (gross and net)
- Degree of fulfilment per risk, with referenced evidence and the statutory text alongside
- Preventive and remedial measures plus a digital grievance mechanism, as required by the LkSG
- BAFA-compliant annual report generated automatically, on demand
- Statistics cockpit: risk distribution, suppliers by country, and the most critical suppliers
- Multi-year and multilingual, role-based, with two-factor authentication
A look inside the product
Illustrative demo data; an anonymised product example — it deliberately does not reproduce the real product.
Results
Scattered spreadsheets became a guided, audit-proof product — and an advisory service became a scalable, differentiating offer. Every risk analysis follows the same law-aligned steps across all advisors and clients, and days of manual report assembly become minutes.
- A guided process, not gut feel — law-aligned across all advisors and clients
- Audit-readiness through a complete history and structured data
- Reports in minutes instead of days, structured to legal requirements
- A new revenue line: its own software-backed offering in the market