Product Feature
Document supplier due diligence and forced-labor risk across your supply base, and build the evidence behind your UK Modern Slavery Act statement.
Overview
The UK Modern Slavery Act requires businesses above a turnover threshold to publish an annual statement describing the steps they take to keep slavery and human trafficking out of their operations and supply chains. For electronics OEMs, that reaches deep into a multi-tier supplier base where forced-labor risk is hard to see and harder to evidence. Z2 Compliance Manager treats the Act as a supply chain risk problem: it gathers supplier disclosures, tracks due-diligence activity, and assembles the documentation behind your statement.
Knowing the terms under which your component manufacturers operate is essential to avoiding the supplier non-compliance that ripples through to your production schedules and brand reputation. Z2 Compliance Manager links Modern Slavery Act obligations to the suppliers and parts they actually touch, so responsible-sourcing risk sits in the same platform your team uses for REACH, RoHS, and TSCA. Instead of a standalone questionnaire exercise, you assess it against the real components and suppliers in your BOM.
Keeping pace with supplier announcements about their compliance is tedious and time-consuming. Compliance Manager sources compliance reports and supporting documentation so you can check the disclosures suppliers make available on the UK Modern Slavery Act and other responsible-sourcing requirements. Every assessment carries an evidence package drawn from Z2's database and public supplier information, stored in a centralized repository you can reference when an auditor, customer, or regulator asks how you reached a conclusion.
A Modern Slavery Act statement is only as strong as the due diligence underneath it. Compliance Manager mirrors the PLM environment your engineers use and tracks workflow progress across every part and supplier, so the activity behind your statement is recorded rather than reconstructed at year-end. Where coverage leaves gaps, Z2's compliance team runs supplier outreach to collect the missing disclosures and close the loop on suppliers who have not confirmed their position.
UK Modern Slavery Act coverage is one regulation within Z2 Compliance Manager, which assesses your parts against more than 270 global environmental and responsible-sourcing regulations. Because it shares data with Supplier Insights and Part Risk Manager, modern-slavery due diligence sits alongside supplier ESG records, part risk scores, and multi-tier supplier mapping. Your statement is supported by the same connected view of suppliers and components your teams already rely on, not an isolated tool.
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UK Modern Slavery Act is one capability inside Z2 Compliance Manager, automated material compliance across 270+ regulations, so RoHS, REACH, PFAS, conflict minerals, and more stay audit-ready.
Common Questions
Businesses above the turnover threshold must publish an annual statement setting out the steps they take to keep slavery and human trafficking out of their operations and supply chains. For electronics OEMs that means documenting due diligence across a multi-tier supplier base. Z2 records that activity and assembles the supporting evidence so your statement reflects real diligence, not a generic policy commitment.
Compliance Manager sources supplier disclosures and documentation, ties them to the specific suppliers and parts in your BOM, and stores everything in a centralized repository. Each assessment includes an evidence package, and Z2's compliance team can run outreach to collect missing disclosures, giving you a documented due-diligence trail to present to auditors, customers, and regulators.
No. It is one of more than 270 regulations assessed inside Z2 Compliance Manager, the same platform used for REACH, RoHS, and TSCA. Because it connects to Supplier Insights and Part Risk Manager, modern-slavery due diligence sits alongside supplier ESG data, part risk scores, and multi-tier supplier mapping in one place.
