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How Enterprises Map Critical Raw Material Exposure Across a Complex Supply Chain

How Enterprises Map Critical Raw Material Exposure Across a Complex Supply Chain

Supply chain disruptions cost industrial companies 15 days of downtime per year on average. Yet most manufacturers can't see where the risk sits – because critical raw materials (CRM) don't appear by name in a purchase order. With CRMA, CSDDD, and CSRD now raising the bar on supply chain transparency, compliance, and reporting, that blind spot is becoming a strategic liability. At Procurement Summit 2026, ctrl+s showed how to map CRM exposure from existing spend data – across every tier, every supplier, and all 33 EU-critical raw materials.

How Enterprises Map Critical Raw Material Exposure Across a Complex Supply Chain
From Blind Spot to Action: How to Map Your Company's Critical Raw Material Exposure

From Blind Spot to Action: How to Map Your Company's Critical Raw Material Exposure

Mapping your company's critical raw material (CRM) exposure doesn't require a supplier survey or a tier-N data collection campaign. It starts with procurement spend data you already hold. Translating that spend into a material-level supply-chain exposure map is one analytical step – and the first map is enough to prioritize where deeper work pays off. This post follows the five-step framework: Scope → Map → Assess → Mitigate → Monitor and Report. The output feeds directly into your CRMA Article 24 supply-chain risk assessment and your ESRS E5 resource-inflows disclosure.

From Blind Spot to Action: How to Map Your Company's Critical Raw Material Exposure
Outside the Perimeter: Why Most Companies Underestimate Their Critical Raw Material Risks

Outside the Perimeter: Why Most Companies Underestimate Their Critical Raw Material Risks

Procurement systems track what a company buys – not what's inside it. For most large European manufacturers, critical raw material (CRM) exposure arrives embedded in components, invisible to any risk register or procurement system. That's not a data quality problem. It's a methodology problem. More than 80% of large European firms sit no more than three intermediaries from a Chinese rare-earth producer – yet that dependency appears in no purchase order. Mapping it takes only the spend data you already hold, across all 33 EU-critical raw materials.

Outside the Perimeter: Why Most Companies Underestimate Their Critical Raw Material Risks
Whitepaper: Outside the Perimeter
Whitepaper

Whitepaper: Outside the Perimeter

How European industry's critical raw material exposure sits where risk audits don't look.

Whitepaper: Outside the Perimeter
Scope 3 industry insights directly to your inbox

Scope 3 industry insights directly to your inbox

Your first email includes our white paper “The Scope 3 Gap”. A clear breakdown of why CCF-based Scope 3 approaches are unstable, plus a blueprint for a better path.

Scope 3 industry insights directly to your inbox
Scope 3 Tools in 2026: What the Market Is Actually Signalling

Scope 3 Tools in 2026: What the Market Is Actually Signalling

The Scope 3 software market has grown up. Most large industrial companies today use some form of digital solution to calculate, manage, or report their Scope 3 emissions. Vendor claims have become more comprehensive, dashboards more polish…

Scope 3 Tools in 2026: What the Market Is Actually Signalling
Stop Measuring, Start Reducing: A Better Path for Scope 3

Stop Measuring, Start Reducing: A Better Path for Scope 3

The industry has become obsessed with reporting perfection while the hard work of decarbonizing supply chains gets sidelined. It is time to cut through the noise and focus on what actually works.

Stop Measuring, Start Reducing: A Better Path for Scope 3
Beyond Tier 1: Closing the Biggest Blind Spot in Scope 3

Beyond Tier 1: Closing the Biggest Blind Spot in Scope 3

Dashboards may show aggregated upstream emissions, but turning those numbers into real decarbonization requires reaching the suppliers who actually shape the majority of embodied emissions — and most of them sit beyond Tier 1. And that’s w…

Beyond Tier 1: Closing the Biggest Blind Spot in Scope 3
Critical Raw Materials: The Next Scope 3 Challenge

Critical Raw Materials: The Next Scope 3 Challenge

From lithium and cobalt to rare earths and graphite, these materials are the backbone of Europe’s green and digital transition, powering batteries, wind turbines, semiconductors, and electric motors. Yet almost all of them come from outsid…

Critical Raw Materials: The Next Scope 3 Challenge
ctrl+s at DPW Amsterdam 2025

ctrl+s at DPW Amsterdam 2025

At this year’s Digital Procurement World (DPW) in Amsterdam, ctrl+s joined sustainability and procurement leaders from across the world to discuss one of the most pressing questions in corporate climate action: how can companies move from…

ctrl+s at DPW Amsterdam 2025
Whitepaper: The Scope 3 Gap

Whitepaper: The Scope 3 Gap

Most companies still use supplier corporate carbon footprints as their primary input – but analysis of 62 CDP A-rated companies shows these numbers are unstable, inconsistent, and often misleading.

Whitepaper: The Scope 3 Gap
ctrl+s Partners with H&Z to Accelerate Supply Chain Decarbonization

ctrl+s Partners with H&Z to Accelerate Supply Chain Decarbonization

ctrl+s and H&Z partnership for supplier decarbonization

ctrl+s Partners with H&Z to Accelerate Supply Chain Decarbonization
The new Carbon Accounting Module in supplier+s is live

The new Carbon Accounting Module in supplier+s is live

ctrl+s is setting a new standard for efficiency in supply chain management with the launch of the carbon accounting module in supplier+s. This marks the evolution of supplier+s from a supplier engagement platform to a stand-alone carbon ma…

The new Carbon Accounting Module in supplier+s is live
From Data to Insight to Action: “Success Now Breakfast” 2023

From Data to Insight to Action: “Success Now Breakfast” 2023

In today's business environment data has become key. With organizations collecting more data than ever before, the real challenge lies in converting this data into actionable insights. Pavel Somlev of Johnson & Johnson, another speaker at…

From Data to Insight to Action: “Success Now Breakfast” 2023
Machinery and Equipment

Machinery and Equipment

The machinery and equipment (M&E) sector powers economies and shapes industries. As climate action takes center stage, industries around the world are grappling with the task of reducing their carbon footprint. While the M&E sector has mad…

Machinery and Equipment
Procurement Summit Startup Awards 2023

Procurement Summit Startup Awards 2023

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Procurement Summit Startup Awards 2023
Amsterdam, here we come

Amsterdam, here we come

The theme of this year's DPW

Amsterdam, here we come