Challenge: If you're relying on spreadsheets or other disparate sources that require manual data entry to analyze your supply base, information can be hard to find, update, sort – and interpret.

Solution: The Supply Base Analysis Module helps to streamline, automate and simplify the analysis process. Combining powerful D&B business insight with your own supplier spend data and highlighting trends with powerful dashboards, graphs and charts, it helps get you the answers you’re looking for.

Bottom line: Supplier visibility gives you the clarity to take action faster and with more confidence. You'll spend less time managing spreadsheets and more time managing your business.

Seeing is believing

Having your supplier information in a central place helps you find answers more quickly, offering you a powerful way to review your supply base. The Supply Base Analysis Module provides specific views such as Risk, Diversity, File Analysis, Supplier Family, Commodity and Business Unit. It informs your supplier information management and data cleansing activities and identifies potential risk exposure, compliance levels and diversity status across your supply base. Dashboards provide an at-a-glance pulse of supply base status based on key factors. Trending analysis can help you track supplier risk and spend over time and query/export features help you pinpoint specific areas of focus. You can use custom filters to refine your analysis and track rogue spend using data you provide.

At a glance

• Gain in-depth insights across your supply base with dashboard views and detailed drill downs.
• Evaluate your overall supply base risk exposure.
• Determine how much you spend with diverse suppliers.
• Understand corporate supplier family relationships to reduce risk and cost.
• Pinpoint commodities with elevated risk exposure.
• Review spend and risk at the business unit level.
• Identify duplicate and incomplete supplier records.
• Use the classification system that best meets your needs.

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• Learn more about D&B's:

• Patented 5-step data-quality process for the world's largest commercial database: DUNSRight™
• Delineation of corporate family relationships to uncover real risk & opportunity: Corporate Linkage
• Suite of tools for predicting payment delinquency: Commercial Credit Scores
• Scores on the likelihood of a small business to become delinquent: CCS on Small Business
• Industry and asset-specific benchmarking tools: Industry Norms & Key Business Ratios
• Tool to remove the uncertainty of an applicants' likelihood to pay on time: Fraud Risk Scores
• Assessment of the long-term financial health of a company: Financial Stress Scores
• Forum to share your trade payment experiences and learn from others: Share Trade Data with D&B