CoR Basics - Should they be a part of your Supply Chain?

We get a lot of questions through to our Help Desk team about whether a company is part of your CoR supply chain and how to know the difference. So we thought we would break it down for you here.

To determine whether a company is part of your CoR supply chain there are 2 key questions to ask yourself:

1.       Who engages who?

and

2.       Who is handling the freight aspect of the delivery?

Have you asked this company to deliver a product to or for you? Or is your company organising/providing something for/to them?

If you have asked a company to deliver a product/goods to you, they are a Supplier and part of your supply chain. However, we still need to know who is organising the transportation of the goods to determine whether they are part of your CoR Supply Chain.

Alternatively, if they have asked you to deliver a product to them, they are a customer and are not part of your CoR supply chain.

So, who organised the freight, have you taken this on yourself or have they?

If they have handled the freight by organising the Carrier to pick up and deliver to you, or are delivering it themselves, then they are part of your CoR supply chain and under your CoR obligations, you are required to monitor how they are managing their CoR compliance.

If you have organised the freight on their behalf, then they are not part of your CoR supply chain and instead the carrier moving the freight for you is.

Quick Summary:

CoR supply Chain – We engaged them, and they are handling the freight.

Not CoR Suppy Chain – they engaged us*, or we engaged them, but we are handling the freight.

*Please note in this case you could be part of their CoR supply chain

If you need more information, reach out to Abby or Cielle.