Where a particular supplier or suppliers are located will depend on the cost of a supply chain review. Specifically we provide clients with the following:

1. Initial meeting to discuss requirements (no charge): this meeting is to discuss the basic construct of your supply chain, what some of the challenges are, what is required in terms of review and what compliance and contractual obligations a supplier or suppliers may have.

2. Feedback with service scope and costs: post this initial meeting the Sustain Advisor will provide you with a full service scope and work plan that will be fully costs. Generally a supply chain review will assess three core areas: 1: the requirements of the client, 2: the actions or work being undertaken by the supplier and 3: intelligence gathering around the supplier such as environmental behavior, any legal action pending related to the environment, labor and workplace laws, health and safety etc. Social and professional media checks will also be undertaken as well as any community based feedback sessions

3. Once a Sustain Advisor has been allocated and the work plan signed off, the internal work effort will include a complete review of supplier contracts and obligations. A matrix will be drawn up of those measures that counter as risks, any notices of compliance that have already been issued or those that are pending. Externally, and once deployed to the field, the Sustain Advisor will make a direct assessment where they may review the plant, operations or facilities, manuals, processes and procedures. Alongside this will be third party verification with extreme cases utilizing surveillance monitoring

4. Once all of the data and information has been gathered, the feedback report and session are completed with a full risk profile developed with recommendations around risk mitigation, improvements where required or, in the most extreme cases, action points for termination of a supplier.

The costs involved are:

1. Travel and accommodation if deployed outside of Australia (not required where a Sustain Advisor is located in the country where the review is being undertaken). These costs are charged within the overall agreement but, as a guide, include accommodation at a rate of no less than $170 (AUD) per night, an economy class airfare and a per diem rate of $65 (AUD) per day. Advisors will never spend more than a fortnight in the country where the review is taking place if they are being deployed from Australia. There are no costs of the Advisor is located in country

2. A standard daily rate for consulting is applied at $1650 (AUD) per day. A minimum engagement is fourteen days. This includes any time spent compiling the various reports and feedback sessions.

3. A client can choose to have ongoing monitoring attached to the service scope. This means the Sustain Advisor will review the supplier annually or, in some of the more extreme cases, quarterly to ensure they are meeting the requirements of the contract. In this event the Sustain Advisor will jointly manage the risk register and also be responsible for red-flagging and reporting increases in risk or improvement in performance.