March 4, 2025 – Assent Inc., the leader in supply chain sustainability solutions, has launched its Assent Sustainability Platform (ASP) to facilitate and streamline sharing of critical compliance reporting and declarations across business partners to reduce labor and errors and improve supplier relations. Early access results from users who piloted the new platform showed suppliers are proactively submitting declarations five times faster versus a request-driven standard, with a 92% time savings overall.  

This represents a major step in Assent’s mission to transform supply chain sustainability, as the company continues to innovate and develop its market-leading supply chain sustainability management solution. For a platform demonstration, join our virtual event today at 10 AM ET or register to watch on-demand at a later date.  

The Assent Sustainability Platform revolutionizes the way suppliers engage with their customers by offering a centralized digital workspace designed to share data and declarations, improve data coverage, and reduce the supplier labor burden. This enhances visibility across the supply chain while ensuring regulatory compliance through smart automation and proactive data-sharing capabilities​.  

Built on the Assent Sustainability Network of data and suppliers, the platform eliminates redundant processes and enhances data transparency by enabling manufacturing suppliers to: 

Manage product compliance and sustainability requests seamlessly in a single dashboard for data needed to support PFAS restrictions and regulations such as TSCA, as well as REACH, RoHS, Proposition 65, and others.  

• Proactively share data with multiple customers simultaneously, eliminating repetitive requests resulting in supplier fatigue.  
• Access enhanced product requests and compliance workflows with real-time updates​. 
• More efficiently respond to customer requests, increasing responsiveness, with early access suppliers able to complete request responses 13 times faster.  

“Transparency, responsiveness, and accuracy are pillars of our customer-supplier relationship,” said Catherine Cormier, Assent’s Chief Product Officer. “The launch of the Assent Sustainability Platform is another critical step in removing the complexity from compliance and sustainability reporting. Our network and new platform are purpose-built to empower these relationships so that manufacturers across the supply chain can be active partners in building resilient businesses and a sustainable future.”  

For manufacturers, the platform gives regulatory, compliance and risk teams access to the industry’s most powerful manufacturing data network connecting products, parts and suppliers. This enables Assent’s clients to simplify compliance with faster, smarter processes, while still ensuring strict data privacy.  

"Insufficient supplier engagement is the most significant challenge we face in improving supply chain sustainability," said Elisa Molero, Verdantix analyst and author of the Global Corporate Survey 2025: Supply Chain Sustainability Analysis. "Our findings indicate that poor engagement often stems from a lack of clear communication — driven by differences in language, location, business culture, and compliance requirements —and limited expertise within suppliers, which leads to misaligned programs and insights into supplier performance. Furthermore, many suppliers, constrained by time and limited resources, are overwhelmed by the process, making it difficult for them to provide the accurate data that today’s customers require." 

By addressing these challenges through a centralized platform that enhances communication, streamlines workflows, and reduces supplier burden, Assent empowers manufacturers and their suppliers to overcome engagement barriers and drive meaningful progress in supply chain sustainability. Visit the Assent site to learn more about the Assent Sustainability Platform.