Aotearoa Against
Modern Slavery
(The AAMS Platform)
Aotearoa Against Modern Slavery (The AAMS Platform)
Make your work more manageable. Prioritise impact over administration. Work alongside your peers.
Trusted by dedicated clients who partner with us for long-term success
When it comes to reporting on modern slavery risks, you're not alone - we're here to support you with systems, data and collaboration.
Compliance with modern slavery legislation, and increased reporting on risks and incidents, is falling to procurement, ESG and legal teams across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Aotearoa Against Modern Slavery (the AAMS platform) brings organisations together to align their approach, reduce duplication, realise opportunities, and strengthen outcomes - learning from what has and hasn’t worked in the UK and Australia to build something more disciplined.
A National Shift With Practical Implications
Modern slavery legislation will require organisations to
- Understand modern slavery indicators and risks
- Identify supply chain exposures
- Assess and prioritise risks
- Engage suppliers and supply chains
- Evidence mitigation with data
- Measure effectiveness and report clearly
- Provide Board-level oversight
- Reassure investors, clients and customers
For many teams, this is already underway.
Overseas experience shows that when organisations act independently
- Reporting becomes repetitive and low value
- Risk scoring varies widely
- Duplication becomes entrenched
- Suppliers receive multiple, inconsistent requests
- Effort increases without better outcomes
New Zealand can take a more consistent and efficient approach from the outset.
Why collaboration makes sense in New Zealand
New Zealand can build a more consistent and efficient approach from the start
New Zealand is a small market with highly interconnected supply chains. Many suppliers work across multiple sectors, and most organisations are addressing the same modern slavery challenges.
When organisations act alone, effort is duplicated, risk assessments vary, and suppliers receive mixed signals.
A coordinated approach delivers better outcomes. Shared frameworks create more consistent risk assessments, clearer expectations for suppliers, and less duplicated work.
When organisations face the same challenges, alignment reduces effort and increases impact.
Interested in how this could work in your organisation?
Practical Support
AAMS supports the teams responsible for delivering modern slavery compliance:
- Procurement-focused webinars and workshops
- Monthly meetings to discuss progress, hear case studies and share data
- Clear guidance on governance, oversight and disclosure
- A practical, defensible approach to risk identification and scoring
- Support to develop clear, credible modern slavery statements
- Step-by-step guidance from real people, just a call or an email away
- Cross-sector roundtables with peers facing similar challenges
- Insight into how New Zealand legislation is evolving
Support is delivered by specialists in governance systems, reporting frameworks and supply chain risk management.
The aim is simple: build a framework that reflects how your supply chain operates and report on it clearly and confidently.
AAMS is supported by organisations with deep technical and delivery experience
Together, these partners bring practical experience to strengthen New Zealand’s response.
Bureau Veritas
Supply chain assurance and verification expertise.
Edge Impact
ESG strategy and integration capability.
Better Sydney
Sustainability and infrastructure leadership with cross-Tasman and international perspectives.
What this means for you
If modern slavery reporting sits with your team, AAMS helps you:
- Build a risk framework grounded in the New Zealand market
- Report using real supplier assessments, not algorithms or assumptions
- Avoid developing methodology in isolation
- Reduce duplication in supplier engagement
- Work alongside peers facing similar challenges
- Reduce costs against other systems and platforms
- Provide your Board with clear, structured reporting for sign-off
- Deliver stronger outcomes for the effort invested
A coordinated approach supports both operational teams and governance oversight.
Engage with AAMS
Modern slavery reporting can be complex. It should not be inefficient.
If you would like to make the work more manageable and more effective, we welcome a conversation.
Aotearoa Against Modern Slavery (The AAMS Platform)
When it comes to reporting on modern slavery risks, you're not alone - we're here to support you with systems, data and collaboration.
Compliance with modern slavery legislation, and increased reporting on risks and incidents, is falling to procurement, ESG and legal teams across Aotearoa New Zealand.
Aotearoa Against Modern Slavery (the AAMS platform) brings organisations together to align their approach, reduce duplication, realise opportunities, and strengthen outcomes - learning from what has and hasn’t worked in the UK and Australia to build something more disciplined.
Make your work more manageable. Prioritise impact over administration. Work alongside your peers.
A National Shift - With Practical Implications
Modern slavery legislation will require organisations to:
- ● Understand modern slavery indicators and risks
- ● Identify supply chain exposures
- ● Assess and prioritise risks
- ● Engage suppliers and supply chains
- ● Evidence mitigation with data
- ● Measure effectiveness and report clearly
- ● Provide Board-level oversight
- ● Reassure investors, clients and customers
For many teams, this is already underway.
Overseas experience shows that when organisations act independently:
- ● Clear guidance on governance, oversight and disclosure
- ● A practical, defensible approach to risk identification and scoring
- ● Support to develop clear, credible modern slavery statements
- ● Step-by-step guidance from real people, just a call or an email away
- ● Cross-sector roundtables with peers facing similar challenges
- ● Insight into how New Zealand legislation is evolving
Support is delivered by specialists in governance systems, reporting frameworks and supply chain risk management.
The aim is simple: build a framework that reflects how your supply chain operates and report on it clearly and confidently.
Strategic Partners
AAMS is supported by organisations with deep technical and delivery experience:
Bureau Veritas – supply chain assurance and verification expertise
Edge Impact – ESG strategy and integration capability
Better Sydney – sustainability and infrastructure leadership with cross-Tasman and international perspectives
Together, these partners bring practical experience to strengthen New Zealand’s response.
What this means for you
If modern slavery reporting sits with your team, AAMS helps you:
- ● Build a risk framework grounded in the New Zealand market
- ● Report using real supplier assessments, not algorithms or assumptions
- ● Avoid developing methodology in isolation
- ● Reduce duplication in supplier engagement
- ● Work alongside peers facing similar challenges
- ● Reduce costs against other systems and platforms
- ● Provide your Board with clear, structured reporting for sign-off
- ● Deliver stronger outcomes for the effort invested
A coordinated approach supports both operational teams and governance oversight.
- ● Reporting becomes repetitive and low value
- ● Risk scoring varies widely
- ● Duplication becomes entrenched
- ● Suppliers receive multiple, inconsistent requests
- ● Effort increases without better outcomes
New Zealand can take a more consistent and efficient approach from the outset.
Why collaboration makes sense in New Zealand
New Zealand is a small market. Our supply chains overlap. Many suppliers work across multiple sectors - and most organisations are working through the same modern slavery challenges at the same time.
When organisations act in isolation, effort is duplicated, risk scoring varies, suppliers receive mixed signals, and compliance can become resource-heavy with limited impact.
Coordinated alignment offers a smarter path. Shared, peer-informed frameworks lead to more comparable risk assessments, clearer expectations for suppliers, reduced duplication and better use of resources - delivering stronger outcomes with less unnecessary burden.
When many organisations are solving the same problems, working together simply makes sense.
Interested in how this could work in your organisation?
Practical Support
AAMS supports the teams responsible for delivering modern slavery compliance:
- ● Procurement-focused webinars and workshops
- ● Monthly meetings to discuss progress, hear case studies and share data
Engage with AAMS
Modern slavery reporting can be complex. It should not be inefficient.
If you would like to make the work more manageable and more effective, we welcome a conversation.