Named Supplier Compliance Management, the new platform allows brands to centralise the compliance process, from audits and remediation tasks to tracking improvements over time.
It offers standardised classifications and severity scoring across different facilities and regions, and provides tools to govern corrective action plans.
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For suppliers, Worldly says the platform could reduce repetitive audits and overlapping requirements, which manufacturers say can amount to more than 200 days of audit activity per year.
By using converged assessment data, it aims to simplify compliance work for both brands and suppliers.
Worldly human rights risk solutions vice president Kathryn Smith said: “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.
“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.”
The announcement of the platform comes as global regulatory pressure intensifies, with US Customs and Border Protection blocking nearly $4bn in shipments since 2022 over forced labour concerns and new EU forced-labour rules due to be enforced in 2027.
The platform consolidates third-party social audit reports, custom brand assessments, and data from the Higg Facility Social & Labor Module, overseen by Cascale. It also streamlines the mapping of findings against brand Codes of Conduct and global labour standards frameworks, including the ILO Core Labour Standards and the Cascale Risk Framework.
OVS corporate sustainability head Simone Colombo said: “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.
“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.”
In December last year, Worldly released a series of updates aimed at improving the collection and use of primary data for brands and suppliers.
