Data-Driven Sustainable Supply Chains: About amfori

At the heart of responsible global trade, amfori supports businesses in building transparent, ethical and resilient supply chains. 

Based in Brussels with representation across 17 countries, the trade association brings together more than 2,400 member companies from a wide range of sectors and sizes, reflecting its truly global and sector-agnostic reach. 

Providing strategic guidance on sustainability governance within this network is Diana Andrei, an experienced sustainability expert dedicated to helping member organisations strengthen their ESG performance. Through amfori’s digital solutions, designed to assess and manage ESG risks, Diana plays a key role in empowering companies worldwide to advance sustainable business practices while maintaining competitive, responsible supply chains.

She shared her expertise at Procurement and Supply Chain LIVE London 2025.

Digital solutions, data-driven insights are huge these days in the procurement and supply chain arena. How crucial would you say they are in advancing responsible trade and transparency?

There are a lot of growing expectations from customers, NGOs and stakeholders which are building sustainability frameworks for companies to report on. 

Companies are expected to have clear sustainability commitments as well as effective ESG strategies in order to build those transparent, ethical and sustainable supply chains. 

In order for them to do this they need timely, reliable and transparent data, and digital solutions are coming in to help companies know where to allocate resource and investment.

amfori offers a broad range of digital solutions across the ESG pillars – for the environmental side we have amfori BEPI and on the social pillar we have the amfori BSCI standards.

We also have a supply chain grievance mechanism, which is called amfori Speak for Change, and the most interesting one for the data gathering and analytics would be amfori ESG Risk Compass.

Focusing specifically on amfori ESG Risk Compass, how does that solution support companies with their supply chain strategy?

So amfori ESG Risk Compass is an amfori solution that helps members identify potential ESG risks across their supply chains. You can think of it as a dashboard that translates complex data and analytics into easily understandable ESG risk signals.

It has 20 indicators across the ESG pillars, and covers more than 150 countries. Companies are coming to us to use this tool because it helps them move from having a reactive approach to risk assessment and management to having a proactive one.

Why has amfori sponsored of Procurement and Supply Chain LIVE London?

One of our principles in amfori is collaboration – inside the organisation as well as outside. 

So when we saw that the event is supporting thought leaders in the market, in supply chain as well as procurement, we decided to be also one of the enablers of the event. 

At the same time, it's also key for us to be present here because we can keep up with the market developments and exchange best practices with our peers.