Germany · Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz
LkSG software for risk analysis and complaints
The German Supply Chain Act expects a risk analysis you can explain, preventive measures you can evidence, a complaints procedure affected people can reach, and documentation that holds up later. Libera supports all four — it does not guarantee compliance with the Act.
What the Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz requires
The German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act obliges in-scope companies to establish a risk management system covering their own business area and their direct suppliers, to carry out risk analyses, to take preventive and remedial measures, to operate a complaints procedure, and to document and report on what they did. Indirect suppliers come into scope where the company has substantiated knowledge of a possible violation.
- Regular and event-driven risk analysis
- Preventive measures anchored in purchasing practices
- A complaints procedure accessible to potentially affected people
- Documentation retained and an annual report produced
Risk analysis that survives a question
The weakness of most risk analyses is that nobody can explain the ranking. Libera scores each supplier on country prevalence, government response, sector intensity, workforce size and use of recruitment intermediaries, and lists the named factors behind the number, so a prioritisation decision can be justified rather than asserted.
- Scores are dated and kept, so change over time is visible
- Sector intensity informed by ILO estimates and US DOL TVPRA listings
- Live screening against OFAC and the DHS UFLPA Entity List at check time
- Every weight is published on the methodology page
A complaints procedure with verified access
A complaints channel that potentially affected people cannot reach in practice does little. Libera gives each site a confidential reporting page reachable by QR poster at agreed access points, in the worker's own language, requiring no name, phone number, account or precise location. Buyers or independent auditors can verify that access through announced or unannounced checks, and the result is recorded per site.
- Multiple agreed access points per site rather than one poster
- Verified, due for verification, unverified or access issue status
- Zero complaints plus unverified access is explicitly not treated as reassurance
Substantiated knowledge and indirect suppliers
Indirect suppliers move into scope when substantiated knowledge of a possible violation arises. That knowledge often arrives as a pattern rather than a single event, which is exactly what signal clustering is for: Libera groups worker signals by site, supplier and ILO indicator and raises the supplier's status when a pattern forms, flagging it for human review.
Documentation and reporting
Libera keeps the dated screening history, aggregated signal record, case timeline, remediation actions with owners and due dates, access verification records and an immutable activity log, and exports them together as one report your team can attach to its own reporting.
Where Libera stops
Libera does not determine whether a violation occurred, does not assess whether your company is in scope, and does not produce your statutory report for you. It supports the analysis, the channel, the response and the documentation behind them.
How Libera maps to the workflow
From a screening score to a documented human decision.
01
Screen suppliers
Every supplier, site and labour provider is scored on country prevalence, government response, sector intensity, workforce size and use of recruitment intermediaries, then checked against official sanctions and import-ban lists at the time of the check.
02
Open and verify worker access
A QR poster at agreed access points opens a confidential reporting page in the worker's own language. Access can be verified through announced or unannounced checks by the buyer or an independent auditor, and the result is recorded per site.
03
Receive confidential signals
Workers report without a name, phone number, account or precise location. Management never reads an individual account; only aggregate indicator counts reach the console.
04
Detect patterns
Signals are clustered by site, supplier and ILO indicator, so a repeated pattern becomes visible even when each report on its own looks minor.
05
Human review
When signals accumulate, the supplier's risk status is raised and flagged for human review. Libera never concludes that forced labour occurred — a person decides what happens next.
06
Case and remediation
A case file records the investigation timeline, evidence register, remediation actions with owners and due dates, and the documented outcome.
07
Monitor and document
Re-screening, access re-verification and an immutable activity log produce an exportable record of what was found, what was decided and what was done.
What this page is not
This is a plain-language summary of a statute with its own scope thresholds, reporting mechanics and supervisory practice, all of which can change. It states no thresholds or dates and is not legal advice. Risk indicators produced by Libera never establish that a violation occurred.
Libera produces risk indicators for review. It does not determine that any company or person has committed an offence, does not guarantee compliance with any law, and is not legal advice. Every escalation requires human review.
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