AccountAbility commissioned Ethical Media to come up with ideas to allow users to work with research data on supply chain labour standards.

The research tool is now available to use at www.gradient-index.net, including real data from the companies who took part.

Ethical Media are specialists is communicating social and environmental messages, using a wide range of media including innovative Flash based applications for benchmarking research.

The Gradient tool allows users to control key supply chain metrics, adjusting their preferences to see how different companies perform using various weightings of each metric.