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Supply Management
Supplier risk can be present anywhere, anytime and with any supplier.
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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.
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Supplier Risk Manager
A modular solution to help you mitigate risk:- Supplier Profiles
- Supplier Certification
- Alerts on Business Changes
- Scorecard and Supply Base Analysis
- Surveys and Assessments
- Supplier Locator
Supplier Diversity Data Services
These solutions help ensure you determine how diverse your portfolio is, review your spend with diverse suppliers, find other diverse suppliers that meet your requirements, and ensure that you are meeting corporate, federal, state and Tier 2 requirements.See How D&B's Supply Management Solutions Can Help You
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.
Supplier Lifecycle Risk Management is a best practice approach for certifying, monitoring and analyzing suppliers – and mitigating risk. It helps organizations more efficiently and cost-effectively manage the supply base, reduce risk associated with suppliers and proactively respond to changes in the marketplace.
The right solution for your needs
D&B Supplier Risk Manager 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 businesses as your approved suppliers and bring new ones on-board through a convenient, online portal that helps you aggregate, validate and enrich supplier data to determine potential risk.
Monitor suppliers with ongoing 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.
