Corporate Solutions - Supplier Assessment 

A world-renowned fast-food chain, with an extensive global footprint and a vast supply chain network, was grappling with the complexity of its supply chain management. 

The company's compliance management departments faced significant challenges due to limited staffing. Moreover, the company was required to meet complex compliance regulations from both the global and Chinese markets.  

By conducting analyses of supplier financial health, compliance screening, and operational capabilities—and integrating Know Your Business (KYB) and Know Your Customer (KYC) principles into internal processes—Dun & Bradstreet helped the company efficiently assess and approve risk outcomes.  

Swisslog implements leading automation solutions for warehouses and distribution centres, with locations in over 25 countries worldwide. 

The predecessor product, e-Portfolio, lacked many essential functions. Swisslog needed to master their international project business on both supplier and customer side. 

Swisslog switched from e-portfolio to D&B Finance Analytics, a web-based platform that enables team collaboration and sharing of reports and information for the supplier vetting process. The comprehensive credit reports help prevent losses due to supplier bankruptcy and ensure reliable cooperation. 

Sage is a major, multinational player in the world of business software with millions of customers, over 11,000 employees and offices across the globe. 

The data was purchased from external vendors and some benchmarking took place for prospecting, but most work was handled internally with no single repository or consistent tracking of results. Data was federated, regionalised and segmented by business silo. 

Dun & Bradstreet was selected as the data provider of choice because of its ability to work at a group level and deploy global solutions. This provides Sage with an effective global data foundation to underpin their sales and marketing operations.  

A top-tier internet company operating in over 150 countries, with offices in 30 locations. The company has over 200,000 global customers and is expanding its B2B business.

With rapid global growth, varying policies have made onboarding overseas suppliers complex and manual processes insufficient. A unified supplier evaluation system is needed to improve collaboration efficiency.

By leveraging D&B Data Blocks, the company established a unified evaluation framework and standardized onboarding criteria for overseas suppliers across different countries and regions. The assessment incorporated multiple dimensions—including suppliers financial strength, operations, and market position—and translated these factors into quantified scores that clearly reflected supplier stability.

Combined with D&B Risk Analytics – Supplier Intelligence, the supplier onboarding review cycle for overseas partners was shortened by 38%, while providing business stakeholders with comprehensive and actionable risk alerts through deeper data intelligence.

Through continuous analysis and monitoring of suppliers across multiple risk dimensions, the company was able to build a more scientific and standardized supplier onboarding and evaluation system. This strengthened overall supply chain resilience, enhanced risk mitigation capabilities, and improved the stability and sustainability of its global supplier ecosystem.

Volkswagen, headquartered in Wolfsburg, Germany, is an automotive manufacturing company with a revenue of €322.3 billion in 2023. It is the core enterprise of the Volkswagen Group, one of the world's top four automakers. In 2019, it ranked 9th in the Fortune Global 500. Volkswagen owns several well-known car brands and collaborates with over 500,000 suppliers and partners worldwide.

The challenge is achieving consistent data management for automotive suppliers and sales partners across countries, ensuring information completeness and traceability amid varying manufacturing cycles.

Using the D-U-N-S Number for master data management, over 500,000 suppliers must obtain it to enter the supply chain, enabling consistent global data management and full lifecycle supplier and partner management.