Supply Chain Sustainability: Top Trends for 2025

The challenges of 2024 created turbulence for businesses navigating supply chain sustainability and ethical sourcing strategies. Rapid regulatory changes, geopolitical tensions and data innovations complicated the sustainability landscape and redefined how we perceive Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks and strategies. Data from EiQ, LRQA’s supply chain intelligence software, shows human rights and environmental risks are rising globally and continue to threaten supply chain integrity. What does this mean for businesses in 2025?

EiQ's Supply Chain Sustainability: Top Trends for 2025 report examines the critical trends that impact supply chain resilience and sustainability programmes. While some of these trends are longstanding, their effect on businesses and supply chain due diligence has evolved over time, presenting new challenges and opportunities. Leveraging a dataset of more than 25,000 audits per year in LRQA’s supply chain intelligence platform, EiQ, combined with in-depth industry knowledge, this report aims to support businesses in navigating changes in the year ahead and empower data-driven decision making to enhance supply chain resilience.

The ethical conduct of businesses and their supply chains plays a crucial role in maintaining the sustainability and resilience of global trade networks. As we move into 2025, businesses must pivot towards improving data quality, cultivating stronger supplier relationships, and prioritising human rights and environmental concerns.