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Supply Management Solutions

Supplier risk can be present anywhere, anytime and with any supplier
Outsourcing. Globalization. Leaner operations. Economic uncertainty. Demand fluctuations measured in days instead of months or quarters. These realities all add up to one massive challenge—ensuring that your suppliers deliver as promised, when promised. Today, this challenge is more complex than ever. To address the realities of a rapidly-evolving global economy, world-class companies have recognized that the supplier relationship has a lifecycle—and there’s risk involved at every point in that lifecycle.

Covering the full lifecycle

Understanding the risks associated with various points in the supplier lifecycle is crucial, whether you are sourcing and on-boarding new suppliers, measuring their performance day-to-day or looking for the right partner to support new product introductions or an expansion into new markets. Minimizing supplier risk requires keeping up with the ever constant changes in the state of the supplier, knowing which of those changes have the potential to affect your ability to meet your customers’ needs and trusting the information you use to drive your decisions.

The right solution for your needs

D&B delivers the focused and predictive insights you need to evaluate and act on changes in your suppliers’ businesses, before those changes affect your business. Supplier Risk Manager can help you:

Certify suppliers and bring new ones on-board through a convenient, online registration portal that helps you aggregate, validate and enrich supplier data.

Monitor suppliers with real-time alerts and profiles that provide operational, financial and performance data.

Analyze risk and identify trends in your supplier portfolio with powerful scorecards, graphs and charts that combine your data with D&B insight.

Mitigate supplier risk by choosing the right course of action, such as supplier negotiation or finding new sources of supply.