Supply-Line Mapping

ICCE enables complex temporary labour supply chains to be mapped as individual supply lines, making the parties inside each route visible and ensuring they operate within a controlled environment rather than disappearing beyond direct contractual relationships.

The activity produced inside those lines is evidenced at line-item level and made available to authorised parties upstream. Buyers, contractors and framework operators can therefore see both who is participating in the chain and what activity those participants are producing, with reporting capable of moving from aggregate supply-chain views to the individual record supporting a specific outcome or claim.

From Supply Chains to Supply Lines

Replace downstream assurance with upstream proof

As buyers, contractors and framework operators are increasingly required to evidence fair work, good jobs, social value, responsible procurement and tax compliance, reliance on downstream governance alone is materially insufficient.

Conventional supply-chain governance relies heavily on requirements being forwarded from one party to the next. Those requirements are often weakened, partially communicated or not passed on at all, leaving lower-chain organisations with an incomplete understanding of the standards they are expected to meet.

Map the real supply line

Understanding parties beyond direct contractual relationships is difficult, particularly where labour chains expand, contract and change over time. ICCE treats the wider supply chain as a collection of individual supply lines: the specific routes through which labour requirements become commercial activity.

Crucially, the supply line itself produces evidence. ICCE allows data created through normal activity inside the line to move back upstream, giving authorised parties direct access to attributable evidence of the outcomes created beneath them.

Control the line. Evidence the activity.

ICCE Frameworks allow upper-chain parties to establish the operating environment in which relevant labour activity takes place, with defined controls remaining attached to participation and activity inside that environment.

Each ICCE transaction can produce more than 1,000 captured, calculated or derived datapoints across its wider record. Reporting can aggregate that evidence across authorised agencies, projects, periods and operating populations, or drill into the individual line item supporting a specific position.

See every participant. Attribute every outcome.

Every party entering an ICCE-routed line is known, onboarded and visible within that operating environment, so lower-chain participation no longer has to be reconstructed after the event.

The resulting activity can also remain attributable to the project, works package, lot, call-off, site or other delivery context that created it, giving different parties access to the same underlying evidence in forms appropriate to their position and authority.

Control, Capture, Evidence.

Before entering ICCE, all parties, including workers must complete the ICCE Onboarding process. This provides participants throughout the chain with a consistent level of assurance around identity, status, residency, Right to Work and wider compliance readiness. all parties onboarded

Buyer

Tier 1 Contractors

Subcontractors

Agencies

Workers

Downstream Governance Upstream Data Proof

Traditional labour-chain assurance asks requirements to travel down through successive organisations and evidence to travel back up again. ICCE changes the direction of reliance: the supply line is made visible and controlled first, then the activity occurring inside it produces the evidence required upstream.

Moving from passive downstream governance to direct upstream access to transaction-level evidence materially changes how the labour chain can function: visibility becomes continuous, assurance becomes evidence-led, and upper-chain decisions can be made from the activity itself rather than reconstructed after the event.

Downstream governance

flow-down

Direct supplier approval does not reveal every party operating further down the active labour route.

Requirements depend on each tier forwarding, interpreting and enforcing them correctly.

Supply routes can drift or change between assurance exercises without becoming visible upstream.

Evidence commonly returns as declarations, summaries and periodic reports detached from line-item activity.

Upper-chain accountability depends on proving outcomes created by parties it may never directly see.

Upstream data proof

system evidence

All participating parties are known, onboarded and visible inside the ICCE-routed line.

Defined controls remain part of the operating environment rather than relying on repeated manual flow-down.

Supply-line participation and activity remain visible as the chain evolves.

Evidence forms from the underlying activity and can be inspected at line-item level.

Reporting can aggregate the chain or defend a specific fair-work, social-value, procurement or tax position with attributable evidence.