The Importance of Knowing Your Upstream Supply Chain

The problem is that SME companies don't know where all the things come from and upstream supply chains are opaque to them. So they have to either figure out, you know, do we send an auditor to each of these places to ensure compliance? Or is there a way that we can identify the risk at least at the level of the US government can do so through tech)? And honestly, that is significantly significantly cheaper and less burdensome on the company. But it's happening at the same time that China is making it more difficult for the on the ground people to do that upstream compliance and tracing. There's some other stuff though that AI makes a lot easier so I come from the national