How does the TDi Digital Platform address LME brand producers and other key stakeholders’ most pressing challenges?
February 25, 2026
The TDi Digital Platform enables the continuous identification and management of ESG issues that could expose stakeholders to compliance, operational and reputational (COR) risks.
The Supply Chain and Due Diligence Tool is of particular value to LME brand producers and other key stakeholders in conducting OECD-aligned supply chain due diligence. It uniquely integrates the benefits of supply chain traceability platforms, ESG data providers and on-site auditing services into one, simple platform.
Users can add or view suppliers, visualise linkages, instantly output individual risk profiles, and monitor audit results and corrective action plans. Suppliers are rated for inherent and residual risk levels, based on their location, material sourced and business activities. These criteria are scored using TDi’s CAHRA index, its environmental country risk indicator, and TDi’s UNGP-aligned material risk salience methodology.
Crucially, the Supply Chain and Due Diligence Tool recognises the efforts suppliers make to mitigate their inherent risk exposure. Residual risk levels therefore incorporate evidence of risk-mitigation measures, including recognised third-party assurance schemes and the results of TDi-led on-site assessments. A supplier’s residual risk level can also be informed by adverse news exposure, using TDi’s Search 360° News Monitor.
The Supply Chain and Due Diligence Tool directly tackles the following challenges:
Time consuming manual risk identification
- The tool delivers rapid supply chain risk assessments using TDi’s proprietary databases and know-how. This eliminates repeated manual data entry and duplicating due-diligence work.
- In addition to research-based risk assessment, TDi collects data directly from suppliers to map supply chains and identify tier-N suppliers.
Optimisation of resource allocation
- By applying a risk-based approach through inherent and residual risk scoring that feeds into an enhanced due diligence audit determination, the Tool ensures resources are allocated to higher-risk suppliers for maximum impact.
Flexibility and regulation-aligned risk scope
- The risk indicators and datasets within the TDi Digital Platform are regularly updated based on global regulatory developments and current events, maintaining ratings relevance and capturing the hidden issues that automated assessments may miss.
Maintenance of dynamic risk profiles
- TDi’s supplier profiles consider all relevant mineral industry certifications when calculating risk ratings, as factors that mitigate a supplier’s inherent risk level.
- Positive second-party audit results and corrective action plans are also integrated into risk scoring as risk mitigating factors.
- Supplier risk ratings can also integrate monitoring of adverse news, which both affects a supplier’s effective risk exposure and can inform the audit scope as needed.
Generation of exportable risk assessment outcomes
- Supply chain assessments and audit outcomes can be directly exported in PDF and Excel, delivering compliance-ready statistics for public reporting and customer enquiries.
See what it can do for yourself
Book a demo today for a no-obligation tour of the TDi Digital Platform, or please get in touch if you have any questions. You can also find out more about the Platform and all of its interlinked tools here.
