Assent

Assent Inc is a Canadian company that was founded in Ottawa and is now globally recognised as the leader in managing supply chain sustainability. The organization has been named to Gartner’s 2026 Market Guide for Sustainable Procurement Applications — for the second consecutive year. That recognition is a testament to substantial investment in product breadth, data quality and supplier engagement capabilities.

Assent is on a mission to help manufacturers build good, deep and durable products. That means moving beyond checkbox compliance to real supply chain visibility — not just knowing if a supplier is registered, but what materials they use, how those materials are sourced, and if every component meets applicable global regulations.

Assent delivers through the Assent Sustainability Platform — a single environment that combines product compliance, ESG reporting and trade compliance. The platform integrates with SAP, PTC Windchill and standard APIs to connect to existing enterprise systems, and doesn’t require a full data migration.

Everything is accessible to members and customers via the Assent portal — a centralised hub for submitting compliance data, tracking supplier responses and producing audit-ready reports. The portal offers multilingual supplier outreach, enabling even hard-to-reach international suppliers to participate in structured surveys in their native language. Compliance teams can spend their time on analysis rather than administration thanks to notification workflows and automated reminders.

Extended Producer Responsibility is among the fastest-growing regulatory challenges for manufacturers in North America. The Assent compliance portal now includes a dedicated EPR Packaging module, launched in September 2025 in partnership with Lorax EPI. The module covers the full workflow — from supplier data collection through to jurisdiction-specific reporting files and eco-modulated fee calculations.

North American EPR laws vary sharply by state and province. California SB54, Oregon SB582, Colorado HB22-1355, and Canada’s Federal Plastics Registry each carry distinct registration, reporting and fee obligations. Through the Assent compliance portal, manufacturers can manage all of these in a single coordinated program — reducing the risk of missed deadlines, fragmented data and costly penalties.

Supplier data quality is the basis of any compliance programme. The Assent portal is built around an engagement engine capable of reaching out to, educating and gathering structured data from suppliers at virtually any scale, even those with limited compliance resources. Guided workflows take suppliers through disclosure forms and validation rules to highlight anomalies before submission.

A dedicated supplier-side product — the Assent Sustainability Platform for Suppliers — enables supply chain partners to manage their own compliance data and respond to multiple customer requests in one place. This reduces duplication for suppliers responding to multiple customers of the Assent company at the same time.

For manufacturers facing increasing regulatory pressure on products, packaging and ESG, Assent is a proven, scalable way forward. The platform is one of the most comprehensive compliance tools on the market today, combining deep regulatory expertise, intelligent automation, and a powerful supplier engagement engine.

Whether it’s a business’s first EPR filing deadline or it needs to consolidate a fragmented global compliance programme, the platform is designed to deliver confidence — not just data. All engagements at assent.com start with a personalized demo, customized to the manufacturer’s specific regulatory footprint.