Software for Responsible & Sustainable Sourcing
Track sourcing of 3TGs, cobalt, mica, lithium & more. Gain greater visibility into your supply chain to ensure your materials and components are sourced ethically and environmentally-friendly.
Automate Supplier Surveys and Data Collection
Streamline the collection of conflict and responsible minerals data with customizable questionnaires, multilingual templates, and automated campaign workflows.
Ensure Responsible Sourcing Beyond Compliance
Respond to OEM and customer expectations with a scalable platform that supports voluntary frameworks and legal requirements alike—covering conflict minerals, ESG goals, and due diligence.
Gain Real-Time Insights and Supply Chain Visibility
Monitor supplier responses, identify red flags, and report on sourcing practices across your supply chain—enhancing transparency, risk management, and stakeholder trust.
Achieve Better Sourcing Outcomes Across Your Supply Chain
Scale your supplier engagement
Send multilingual surveys at scale and automate data collection across global supplier networks to drive participation and reduce manual effort.
Adapt to any industry or standard
Collect & validate sourcing data, even where no industry standards exist, supporting diverse industries, supplier maturity levels, and complex global supply chains.
Gain real-time risk visibility
Monitor supplier responses and red flags instantly with real-time dashboards that enhance risk management and decision-making.
Automate sourcing reports
Export structured results in common formats (e.g. Excel, JSON, PDF) automatically and streamline your responsible sourcing reporting processes.
Ensure ethical and legal compliance
Meet market and regulatory demands for responsible sourcing, including EU CMR, Dodd-Frank, and customer-specific ESG requirements.
Support your ESG and brand goals
Strengthen your sustainability strategy with transparent sourcing practices, reducing social and environmental risks across your supply chain.
Your All-in-One Software for Responsible & Sustainable Sourcing
Gain a single source of truth for responsible sourcing and mineral-related requirements with Impact Exchange – your centralized platform for managing supplier and sourcing data.
Conflict Minerals Product Update
iPoint Conflict Minerals' new global platform comes with many advanced features making master data management much easier and faster. It includes a new smelter library giving insights into smelter details for 3TG, cobalt, and mica.
iPoint Conflict Minerals at ITT Goulds Pumps
“We have found the iPoint solution and team so helpful. We highly value their expertise and commitment to timely conclusion of the Conflict Mineral survey and report our requirements. I have found the longer we used iPoint to understand each other the easier each year is. Thank you iPoint for years of support.”
Lisa Fitzgerald, Business Development Manager, ITT Goulds Pumps
Frequently Asked Questions on Responsible Sourcing
Find quick answers to the most important questions about responsible sourcing and how they affect your business.
Responsible sourcing is the practice of managing supply chains in a way that actively promotes ethical, environmental, and social standards. It goes beyond legal compliance by focusing on transparency, accountability, and sustainability throughout the sourcing process.
Companies that follow responsible sourcing principles aim to ensure that the materials and components they procure do not contribute to human rights violations, environmental destruction, or unethical labor conditions. Instead, they seek to build long-term partnerships with suppliers who share these values and commit to continuous improvement.
Responsible sourcing addresses a wide range of social and environmental issues:
- Socially, it helps prevent forced labor, child labor, unsafe working conditions, and wage exploitation within supplier networks. It also encourages respect for human rights and diversity throughout the supply chain.
- On the environmental side, responsible sourcing aims to minimize resource depletion, water pollution, greenhouse gas emissions, and deforestation. By identifying and mitigating such risks early, businesses can protect affected communities, reduce their environmental footprint, and strengthen their long-term sustainability performance.
In recent years, many companies have recognized that legal compliance is no longer enough to meet stakeholder expectations. Investors, regulators, and especially customers increasingly demand greater transparency and accountability across supply chains.
As a result, businesses are moving toward purpose-driven responsible sourcing strategies that reflect their values and sustainability goals. This shift helps companies not only avoid reputational and operational risks, but also unlock competitive advantages - such as improved brand trust, better supplier collaboration, and increased resilience in global markets.
Materials of concern in responsible sourcing often include tin, tungsten, tantalum, and gold (collectively known as 3TGs), as well as cobalt, mica, lithium, and other minerals used in electronics, batteries, and automotive components. These raw materials are frequently associated with conflict zones, environmental degradation, or labor abuses.
Because regulations like the EU Conflict Minerals Regulation and the U.S. Dodd-Frank Act do not cover all risk materials or markets, companies must often act proactively—based on customer expectations and internal ESG standards - to ensure responsible sourcing across all product categories.
A responsible sourcing program typically begins with supplier risk assessment and segmentation. Businesses define sourcing policies, communicate expectations to suppliers, and establish due diligence processes to collect and verify sourcing data. Many companies use digital tools to automate supplier surveys, validate responses, track progress, and report on key indicators.
Ongoing engagement, training, and collaboration are essential to help suppliers improve their practices. By integrating responsible sourcing into procurement, compliance, and sustainability strategies, companies can create more transparent, resilient, and ethical global supply chains.
