¶ The Open Map of Global Supply Chains
TradeData is an open knowledge base of supply chain relationships maintained via collaboration of a community of volunteers. Anyone can contribute knowledge about buyers, suppliers, products and raw materials. All information can be challenged or ratified by any member of the community at any time.
Our mission is to link products with their origins and enable supply chain transparency to promote accountability, sustainability and social responsibility amongst the international business community.
¶ How does this work?
TradeData sources it's information from two places:
- Many world leading companies publish their supplier lists as part of their commitment to environmental, social, and corporate governance. TradeData is home to TBot
, a sophisticated AI that continuously ingests public supplier data and incorporates it into a master supply chain index; - We crowdsource information from business leaders and members of the public. If you work for a business that trades with other businesses you have valuable and important information that can help make the global economy more ethical and sustainable.
We have a simple but robust data model: within specfic verticals, we start with retailers, mulitnational brands, and their so-called Tier 1 suppliers, and map the connections between products, product precursors, and suppliers back through three or four tiers of suppliers until we reach raw materials. Our goal is to map the movement and transformation of products from their origin until the point of consumption.
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¶ Where do we start?
Mapping the entire global value chain is an ambitious task, and we are starting with a focus on a handful of industries before expanding horizontally into adajacent sectors. If you are interested in leading the expansion of the project into a particular vertical then please get in touch.
¶ How can I help?
There are many ways to get involved:
- If you have information about business-to-business trading relationships we invite you to register an account and contribute your knowledge to the relevant section;
- If you own or manage a business listed in our index please feel free to populate the page with more information relating to your supply chain activity. If you are interested in publishing your customer and/or supplier lists on an acredited basis for ESG purposes, then please don't hesitate to contact us;
- If you believe transparency and accountability are fundamental forces for good in the world and would like to support our mission, please consider a small donation. 100% of all donations go to maintaining and expanding the knowledge base, and advancing supply chain transparency initatives.