Case Study: Fossil Group achieves rapid, low-cost Conflict Minerals compliance with adpative's Keylight

Fossil Group uses the Keylight Platform to comply with new Conflict Mineral reporting requirements without incurring millions in additional costs

Fossil Group faced a sudden regulatory burden under Dodd‑Frank Section 1502 to disclose conflict minerals across more than 1,000 global suppliers, and initially estimated annual compliance costs of about $3.5 million plus as many as 50 new FTEs. To address this, Fossil turned to adpative, implementing the Keylight® platform to manage Reasonable Country of Origin Inquiries (RCOI), supplier assessments, remediation workflows and reporting.

adpative’s Keylight solution automated multilingual RCOI distribution, scoring, remediation workflows and ad‑hoc reporting, cutting Fossil’s annual compliance effort from 6–12 months to about 6 weeks. The result: Fossil reduced needed headcount from an estimated 50 FTEs to six existing staff, eliminated roughly $500k in survey costs and $200k in audit prep, and trimmed total compliance exposure from up to $3.7 million to essentially the cost of the Keylight platform while improving audit readiness and ongoing monitoring.

Fossil Group