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Supply Management

Supplier Risk Manager - Country Risk Module

Mitigate supplier operational risk with D&B country risk insights

Mitigate Supplier Operational Risk with D&B Country Risk Insights

Challenge: Key supplier markets endure devastating natural disasters, political unrest can result in overnight barriers to imports or added taxes to exports, and piracy interferes with key shipping lanes. These are risks you can't always plan for, and can be out of your – and your suppliers' – control. Couple this uncertainty with the drive many organizations have taken to cut costs and improve efficiencies by minimizing inventories, outsourcing, and sourcing from lower costs countries. The result? Today's supply chains are more fragile and vulnerable than ever and companies have a driving need to understand the political, economic and commercial risk landscape on the global stage.

Solution: D&B's Country Risk Module provides Country Risk Ratings and comprehensive political and economic analysis on 132 countries worldwide, to help you understand the markets you are either sourcing from, or are considering in the future.

Bottom line: It is necessary for supply management professionals to look beyond just their traditional supplier-centric models for managing supply chain risk. This requires integrated intelligence to understand what is happening in the world today, and even more importantly monitoring what is happening in the countries of your trading partners.

Evaluate the political, economic risk and commercial risk in a target market

Economic downturns, political unrest, and geophysical events all have an impact on the global trade environment. The Country Risk Module provides comprehensive analysis on 132 individual countries that account for over 95% of the global GDP, helping you understand:

  • Political Risk - How stable is the country's government?
  • Economic Risk - Is the economy expanding or contracting?
  • External Risk - Is the currency stable or unstable?
  • Commercial Risk - Will I get paid? How quickly will I get paid?
  • Trade Environment - Have import regulations changed?
  • Investment Environment - In which sectors can I safely invest?

Do you know which of your suppliers operate in countries deemed to be high risk? The Country Risk Module integrates your Supplier Risk Manager supply base with the Country Risk Indicator. An interactive global map quickly highlights global risk, and allows you to identify which of your suppliers are located in areas of interest.

Also available are two country level reports:

D&B Country Reports

These reports provide critical information and analysis on the trade and investment environment of an individual country. Each annually updated D&B Country Report offers approximately 50 pages of in-depth analysis for evaluating risks and opportunities world-wide. These detailed reports, available for over 130 countries, are divided into sections to help you address the key areas of risk that may affect your international business. View Example Report >>

D&B Country RiskLine Reports

These snapshot reports provide a succinct assessment of the risk of doing business in a country, given its economic, political and commercial situation. Updated monthly, these seven page reports help you monitor and evaluate the business trading conditions in a foreign country and typically provide a summarized view of the more detailed information contained in the D&B Country Reports. View Example Report >>

Overview of the D&B Country Risk Team & Sources

The D&B Country Risk team is comprised of economists with a broad range of qualifications, experience and education, some of whom carry PhDs. All have earned a postgraduate degree in Economics. With past working experience in a given country or region, the economists are responsible for covering six to eight countries within a specified region and the majority travel to their region at least once a year.

Sources of information are wide ranging, including contacts within a given country such as government Finance Ministries and central banks. We utilize a variety of primary and secondary sources including local chambers of commerce, embassies, trade organizations, and other economic data sources such as the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund, OECD (Organization for Economic Development), and European Union. In addition we leverage D&B's own databases for unique data insights such as aggregate trade payment data to show country payment trends. One of the value-add skills our analysts have is to sort through the information and analyze its credibility.

At a Glance

  • Identify risk associated with conducting commerce in specific regions using country risk ratings
  • See your supplier country risk levels clearly highlighted with interactive global maps
  • Assess supplier risk exposure with supply base views & drill throughs to supplier details
  • Conduct extensive research on countries with comprehensive country risk reports

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