Supplier Compliance Roles and Responsibilities: Who Owns What?
Define practical ownership across procurement, compliance, quality, sustainability, legal, operations and suppliers.
Guide contents
Procurement owns commercial leverage
Procurement is often best positioned to enforce onboarding gates, supplier participation and commercial escalation while compliance teams define the evidence standard.
Compliance owns requirement interpretation
Compliance should maintain requirement definitions, review criteria and exceptions that require a formal decision.
Subject-matter teams own technical review
Quality, sustainability, product and legal specialists should review the evidence in their domain rather than forcing one central team to become expert in everything.
Suppliers need a clear request owner
A supplier should know which request is open, what evidence is missing, when it is due and who can answer questions.
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