Powerful Alliance to Tackle Supply Chain Compliance Challenges Together
Recently, Intertek Group's Government & Trade Services business line, a global leader in comprehensive quality assurance services, successfully held a mid-2025 exchange meeting with BravoWhale Technology, a leading technology enterprise in the ESG compliance services sector. Building on their existing collaboration, both parties reached a strategic cooperation framework agreement and engaged in in-depth discussions on international supply chain green compliance certification, carbon footprint accounting, and corporate overseas compliance. They further established comprehensive ecosystem cooperation to provide end-to-end compliance and certification service support for Chinese enterprises "going global" and the sustainable development transformation of multinational corporations.
International Compliance Requirements Increasingly Stringent, Third-Party Certification Demand Surges
As the global climate governance process accelerates, international markets are imposing increasingly stringent requirements on supply chain environmental compliance. The implementation of several important regulations and policies has further reinforced this trend, such as the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) IFRS S1 and S2 standards, which officially took effect in January 2024 to strengthen disclosure standards, and the EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), which officially took effect in July 2024, requiring supply chain due diligence obligations.
Against the backdrop of continuously escalating green compliance requirements across global supply chain upstream and downstream operations, export-oriented enterprises not only need to disclose their own environmental performance data, but also need to implement green and low-carbon transformation, data traceability, and third-party verification throughout their entire supply chain. The demand for third-party auditing and certification has increased substantially.
Strategic Framework Agreement Implementation, Co-building Supply Chain Compliance Ecosystem
Intertek, as a leading enterprise in the global TIC (Testing, Inspection, and Certification) industry, was established in 1885 and operates in over 100 countries and regions worldwide. It possesses deep technical expertise in the field of ESG compliance certification, and its issued certificates enjoy extremely high credibility and market recognition globally.
Based on profound insights into international compliance trends, Intertek Group and BravoWhale Technology have formed a powerful alliance, deeply integrating Intertek's international standardized certification with BravoWhale's BravoESG platform to achieve full-process AI digitalization management from data collection and verification to certification auditing. The platform supports intelligent multi-method monitoring and calculation of carbon footprints across the entire chain from raw material procurement to final products, automatically generating compliance reports in both Chinese and English that meet international standards, while also supporting online certification. This significantly reduces the manual processes and time required for certification auditing.
The ecosystem cooperation between both parties will focus on core areas including digital compliance certification upgrades, supply chain carbon footprint tracing and accounting, renewable energy compliance certification, and sustainable supply chain carbon reduction management. This cooperation model has successfully completed international supply chain green compliance certifications for multiple international anchor enterprises, covering industries such as electronics, automotive, food, and textiles. Compliance costs have been significantly reduced, earning high recognition from international clients.
Future Cooperation Outlook: Seizing Green Supply Chain Development Opportunities
Looking ahead, global supply chain green compliance will exhibit three major development trends: continuously improving standardization, accelerated digital transformation, and deepened industrial chain collaboration. Enterprises need to establish management systems that comply with multiple international standards to meet the compliance requirements of different markets.
Through their ecosystem cooperation, both parties utilize AI algorithms to optimize ESG assessment processes for upstream and downstream supply chain enterprises, reducing certification audits that previously took months to complete down to just weeks. They will also establish joint service centers in major markets including Asia-Pacific, Europe, and North America to provide localized compliance certification services for multinational corporations. Additionally, both parties will jointly develop AI technology-based supply chain risk early warning standards to help enterprises identify and prevent ESG compliance risks in target compliance markets in advance, providing professional technical support that meets diverse scenario requirements for the international development of more Chinese enterprises.
AI-driven supply chain green and low-carbon compliance has become an irreversible trend. The ecosystem cooperation between both parties marks the official entry of traditional supply chain compliance certification into the digital intelligence era. The deep integration of Intertek's internationally authoritative certification with BravoWhale Technology's AI capabilities will provide global enterprises with more efficient and precise ESG compliance technical services, transforming compliance from a burden into a competitive advantage.