Summary: A scalable supply chain management solution gives global organizations one secure system to standardize supplier oversight, assurance workflows, and compliance data across countries and business units. For supply chain leaders, the main advantage of a flexible SCM platform is operational control: it supports growth, improves consistency, and makes audits, supplier reviews, and corrective actions easier to manage at enterprise scale.
Certainty Software, Inc. is proud to welcome DNV as a client. Specifically, DNV uses the Certainty platform as their core system for DNV Supply Chain Management (SCM) and assurance services globally. This deployment demonstrates how enterprise-grade audit and compliance software can scale to meet the demands of a leading international certification and advisory organization operating across more than 100 countries.
Founded in 1864 and headquartered in Høvik, Norway, DNV (DNV Holdings AS) is the world’s leading classification society. Moreover, it serves as a recognized advisor for the maritime industry. DNV is a USD $2.5 billion company with 12,000 employees and 350 offices operating in more than 100 countries.
Additionally, DNV delivers world-renowned testing, certification, and technical advisory services to the energy value chain. These services span renewables, oil and gas, and energy management. As a result, DNV is one of the world’s leading certification bodies. It helps businesses assure the performance of their organizations, products, people, and supply chain partners throughout the full supply network.
Certainty is the Platform of Choice to Deliver a Scalable, Secure, and Flexible Supply Chain Management Solution (SCM).
According to Kiran Venkitesh, Platforms Manager, Supply Chain & Product Assurance at DNV, “We were looking for a platform which we could use to optimize and scale our Supply Chain Management (SCM) Services. The idea was to use a centralized secure and scalable platform that would enable us to offer supply chain audits on scale globally. This would allow us to provide a high and consistent standard of output, high flexibility in terms of deployment, and enable quick time to market for bespoke protocols. This flexibility also demanded that we have the ability to offer and accommodate customer-specific work processes.”
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD), Germany’s LkSG, and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) now shape the supply chain compliance landscape. DNV’s requirements reflect what all leading organizations need from DNV Supply Chain Management software. Specifically, they need a platform capable of delivering structured, documented, and scalable due diligence programs across global supplier networks.
DNV and the Certainty Platform
“Certainty now forms our core system when offering Supply Chain audits to our global customers. From the creation, testing, and maintenance of protocols – and setting up and managing customer data including sites and users, we use Certainty as our production platform to provide our Supply Chain Management services to our clients globally.
The platform allows us to deploy, schedule, and maintain the assurance framework used to assess our clients’ supply chains at scale. This includes steps right from the creation of the checklists, scheduling the audits, self-assessments by suppliers, an audit by our auditors to technical reviews and the non-conformity life cycle management.”
DNV’s deployment illustrates the full audit lifecycle that modern supply chain due diligence demands. For example, this lifecycle spans protocol design and supplier self-assessment through auditor review, technical sign-off, and corrective action tracking. In fact, this is precisely the workflow required to demonstrate compliance with CSDDD’s due diligence obligations and LkSG’s documented risk management requirements.
Why DNV Chose Certainty Software
“As part of the process, we evaluated quite a few platforms. What made Certainty a choice was the ease of use combined with the powerful features offered by the software. It was an enterprise-grade software solution, which supported offline and online audits in multiple languages allowing us to produce consistent meaningful metrics. In addition, the data security it offered was a key consideration, along with the flexibility to adapt the system to meet our needs” says Kiran Venkitesh.
DNV selected Certainty for its enterprise-grade security, multilingual support, offline and online audit capability, and adaptable protocol design. Similarly, procurement, ESG, and supply chain compliance professionals globally now evaluate these same criteria when selecting supply chain audit software in 2025–2026. Consequently, as CSDDD and CSRD compliance programs scale across thousands of suppliers and dozens of countries, platform flexibility, data integrity, and consistent output quality become non-negotiable requirements.
An International Partnership with Global Reach
“It is truly an honor to be working so closely with one of the world’s oldest, most reputable and respected testing, certification, and technical advisory service companies on the planet.
We are proud and excited to be providing such a key component to DNV’s global Supply Chain Management and Assurance services and are thrilled to be a part of the solution offering they provide to their clients– and their many thousands of suppliers – globally.” Hewitt Roberts, CEO Certainty Software, Inc.
This partnership reflects a shared commitment to supply chain integrity, rigorous audit standards, and documented due diligence. Consequently, it increasingly shapes both regulatory compliance and commercial trust. Global supply chain regulations including CSDDD, LkSG, and regional modern slavery acts continue to raise the bar for supplier oversight. As a result, the Certainty–DNV partnership provides a model for how technology-enabled audit programs can deliver consistent, scalable, and audit-ready compliance evidence across the most complex global supply networks.
About Certainty Software
Hundreds of thousands of professionals use Certainty Software to complete millions of audits and inspections annually. In other words, it is an enterprise-level audit and inspection management solution that provides everything organizations need to collect, collate, and report consistent, accurate, and meaningful compliance metrics across their supply chains. Moreover, Certainty helps companies avoid supply chain disruptions, ensure supply continuity, maintain final product quality, and build the documented due diligence programs required by CSDDD, LkSG, CSRD, and other applicable supply chain regulations.
Certainty is a proven solution for real-time supply chain management and assurance. It supports ESG assessments, ethical sourcing programs, human rights due diligence, risk management activities, product quality assurance, sustainability reporting, supplier self-assessment programs, and corrective action management across global supply networks. In addition, supply chain compliance professionals use Certainty to implement risk-based supplier audit programs. They also collect structured ESG data for Scope 3 reporting and generate the audit-ready documentation that regulators and investors increasingly require.
Certainty supports data entry from paper, browser, or the Certainty app for smartphones and tablets. Furthermore, Certainty provides everything needed to design and manage audit and inspection checklists. It also collects, collates, and reports audit data. Additionally, it manages and mitigates the risks and non-conformities identified through the audit and inspection process.
Certainty is ideal for managing data and corrective actions from any audit or inspection process including:
- Supply Chain Management & Assurance
- Safety Inspections
- Behavior Based Safety Observations
- Construction & Job Site Safety Inspections
- Food Safety Inspections
- Quality Assurance & Layered Process Audits
- Service Delivery Evaluations
- Loss Prevention Audits
- … and much more!
Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)
What makes Certainty Software suitable for enterprise-scale supply chain compliance?
Certainty Software meets the scale, complexity, and compliance demands of enterprise supply chain programs. For example, key capabilities include configurable compliance checklists aligned to CSDDD, LkSG, and CSRD requirements. It also offers instant deployment of supplier self-assessments across global networks in multiple languages. Furthermore, the platform provides offline and online audit support for field teams, real-time data collection and reporting, non-conformance and corrective action management, and enterprise-grade data security. As a result, these capabilities enable organizations to run structured, documented due diligence programs that satisfy regulatory requirements and generate meaningful supply chain intelligence.
How does the DNV deployment demonstrate Certainty’s capabilities?
DNV — a global certification body managing supply chain assurance programs across hundreds of clients and thousands of suppliers in more than 100 countries — selected Certainty as their core SCM platform after evaluating multiple enterprise solutions. Specifically, the deployment covers the full audit lifecycle: protocol design, supplier self-assessment, auditor review, technical sign-off, and non-conformity lifecycle management. Therefore, DNV’s choice of Certainty reflects the platform’s proven ability to deliver consistent, high-quality supply chain compliance data at global scale. This is precisely the requirement for organizations building CSDDD and LkSG-compliant due diligence programs.
How can supply chain audit software support CSDDD compliance?
The EU Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CSDDD) requires covered companies to identify, prevent, mitigate, and account for adverse human rights and environmental impacts across their value chains. For this reason, supply chain audit software like Certainty supports CSDDD compliance by enabling structured risk-based supplier assessments, documented corrective action tracking, supplier self-assessment programs, and the generation of audit-ready due diligence records. In particular, the DNV deployment demonstrates that Certainty’s platform can support these requirements at the scale and geographic diversity that enterprise CSDDD compliance demands.
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