Question 1

Does Supply Chain Integrity mean checking for counterfeit products?

Accepted Answer

Product authenticity is a result of integrity, not its definition. Perspective Labs framework focuses on the structural health of the network itself. If the network is integer — meaning every actor has reliable data, equitable incentives, and clear accountability — then products are naturally authentic and compliant. Chasing fakes is a symptom treatment. Building an integer network is the cure.

Question 2

How is this different from what a big consultancy does?

Accepted Answer

Large consultancies produce strategy decks and compliance frameworks. Tech vendors sell software. Neither takes you by the hand through the actual human work: building supplier relationships on eye-level, bridging the gap between your internal departments, your IT system, and your Tier 3 reality, ensuring that the people who generate the data understand why it matters. That's the Integrity Gap. That's where I work.

Question 3

We already have CSDDD covered. Do we need this?

Accepted Answer

“Covered” in the legal sense (documents filed, boxes checked) is Compliance Theatre. Supply Chain Integrity asks a harder question: if your data were audited tomorrow — every supplier response, every traceability claim — would it hold? If there's any hesitation in that answer, the structural work hasn't been done yet.

Question 4

Is this relevant for SMEs or only large enterprises?

Accepted Answer

The regulations formally target large companies first — but SMEs in their supply chains bear the reporting burden. If you supply to a CSDDD-relevant brand, their integrity requirement becomes your documentation requirement. Starting the architecture now is far cheaper than being forced into it reactively.

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