These online transparency tools helps you measure the environmental impact of supply chains. From British software engineering firm EveryCS, Makersite is a free platform that enables product designers to examine how changing technology, suppliers or materials can affect their whole supply chain. By bringing data, people and tools together, the "product innovation network" allows people to make better products, faster.
Using millions of data points relating to thousands of materials, products and sub-assemblies, Makersite lets you improve your product model, figure out costs, environmental footprints, research uses, risks and regulations. In addition to introducing you to community, the platform also allows you to try out alternative models.
Similar transparency tools have been used in media with transparent news sources and demand for television content.
Product Modelling Networks
Makersite Provides Transparency Tools to Map Out Ethical Supply Chains
Trend Themes
1. Supply Chain Transparency - Makersite's transparency tools provide a unique opportunity for companies to analyze and improve their supply chain sustainability and ethics.
2. Product Innovation Networks - Makersite's platform enables product designers to make better products faster by bringing data, people, and tools together.
3. Alternative Models Testing - Makersite's platform allows users to try out alternative models for products within their supply chain, which can lead to disruptive innovation opportunities.
Industry Implications
1. Supply Chain Management - Makersite's transparency tools are most relevant to companies involved in managing and optimizing complex supply chains.
2. Product Design and Manufacturing - Makersite's platform is most useful to product designers and manufacturers looking to improve their product models, innovation processes, and sustainability.
3. Media and Entertainment - Transparency tools have also been used in media and entertainment to verify news sources and improve TV content, which presents similar opportunities for disruptive innovation.