The Importance of Bottom-Up Understanding of Supply Chain Risks

For consumer electronics companies, the risk tends to lie much more with their upstream suppliers. Raw materials needed for electronics could be sourced from artisanal mining operations or even larger mines that have limited protections for human rights. For any aggregated analysis of whole industries or investment portfolios, it really requires a bottom-up understanding of supply chains. ARRA and team leverage data from Elevate, a sustainable supply chain assessment firm in combination with our own in-house datasets.