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.  

Herald Datanetics Limited (HDL) is a leading ODM/OEM specializing in connected devices for the Internet of Things (IoT). Committed to quality and transparency, HDL holds multiple certifications that reflect their dedication to excellence and responsible governance.  

HDL faced difficulties in effectively promoting their newly launched product, “AccuSense,” as an ESG-friendly offering in a saturated market where numerous products make similar sustainability claims.  

Leveraging D&B ESG Registered™, HDL’s ESG performance underwent thorough evaluations, aiding them in identifying strengths and areas for improvement. This process ultimately enhanced HDL’s credibility and sustainability initiatives.  

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. 

This Hong Kong food enterprise attaches great importance to ESG management and has already implemented a large number of green - related work, but lacks scientific and effective ESG assessment methods and capabilities. 

 This food enterprise lacks channels to let consumers understand its ESG practice achievements and determination to improve, and hopes to have a more direct way of display and communication. 

Through Dun & Bradstreet's ESG Registration™ service, this enterprise obtained the Dun & Bradstreet ESG score, online file, logo, and display QR code. The enterprise printed the Dun & Bradstreet ESG Registration™ logo and QR code on the product outer packaging. As a unique highlight, it actively demonstrated the enterprise's ESG achievements and attracted more green - conscious consumers, and also better conveyed the ESG concept.

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.

Founded in 2008 and headquartered in Dongguan, Guangdong, this company is a national high-tech enterprise driven by innovation and precision manufacturing. Its main product lines include automotive lighting modules, electronic connectors, and other related products.

The company supports global Tier-1 automotive suppliers, ensuring compliance with procurement data management requirements and enabling timely validation and traceability of its status to ensure smooth project progress.

Using D-U-N-S^® Registered^® solutions, the company received the D-U-N-S^® Number and supply chain assessments, strengthening relationships with Tier-1 automotive suppliers like Faurecia, Marelli, and Amphenol, while boosting global competitiveness.

This company is an A-share listed company in the photovoltaic industry, with nearly 1,000 employees in China and annual revenue close to 2 billion yuan. Over half of its revenue comes from overseas markets, with Europe and Australia being its major foreign markets.

In the overseas photovoltaic market, Chinese companies face competition, while European buyers enforce strict background checks. With growing focus on sustainability and carbon neutrality, many overseas clients require ESG disclosures. The company struggles with a lack of ESG knowledge and expertise, hindering its ability to meet these demands.

Using the D-U-N-S^® Number, the company quickly completes supplier onboarding, building trust with overseas buyers. The D-U-N-S^® Registered^® solution boosts visibility, fostering deals. Through the ESG self-assessment, the company identified data gaps and developed strategies for ESG governance and reporting.

This well - known Indian pharmaceutical enterprise is headquartered in Mumbai and is one of the three major pharmaceutical companies in India. The enterprise has formulated a clear ESG development strategy, and one of the important issues is to focus on managing and controlling ESG risks in the global supply chain. 

The enterprise urgently needs to strengthen the risk assessment and management of suppliers and optimize the relationship with the upstream and downstream of the supply chain; and the company lacks an independent and impartial third - party institution to conduct ESG investigation and evaluation of its suppliers. 

With the help of the "ESG Self - assessment Questionnaire Service" tailored for suppliers in Dun & Bradstreet's ESG solution, the ESG performance of 38 core suppliers of this pharmaceutical company in China was investigated and evaluated, and the results were fed back to the pharmaceutical enterprise. Finally, it helped the enterprise achieve ESG risk management of the supply chain and better promote the achievement of the overall ESG goals of the enterprise. 

This company is a professional high - end precision die - casting mold manufacturer integrating the design, development, and precision processing of aluminum alloy die - casting products. It is one of the first member enterprises of the China Foundry Association and the Ningbo Die & Mould Industry Association. In recent years, the company has vigorously developed export business, mainly concentrated in Germany, Italy, and the United States. Its products are highly recognized in the market, but the market competition pressure is high. 

During the process of expanding overseas customers, this company was required to provide information on environmental governance, etc. ESG - related data disclosure was also required during the bidding process. Although the enterprise is of medium size and has no experience in the ESG - related field, it attaches great importance to environmental governance. The company has two manufacturing plants, and in - depth ESG audits are quite challenging for it. 

Relying on Dun & Bradstreet's ESG Registration™ service, this company obtained the Dun & Bradstreet ESG Registration™ enterprise file, score, and logo. As an important material for communicating with overseas customers, it demonstrated the company's practice of independently disclosing ESG information and greatly enhanced the company's comprehensive competitiveness in overseas bidding.