Challenge: Many organizations are managing multiple instances of fragmented, duplicate, incomplete and/or outdated supplier information to support supply management objectives across the enterprise. If you have data in disparate systems and spreadsheets, understanding who your suppliers really are, with a detailed, accurate view of supplier information in one place can be a big challenge.

Solution: D&B's Supply Data Services supports your Supplier Lifecycle Management process by helping you build and maintain a sound supplier information management strategy with strong data quality. D&B tracks more than 200 million businesses globally, with over a million updates a day, making it easy to improve the accuracy of supplier profiles.

Bottom Line: A rigorous and repeatable process to help you maintain standardized, thorough and current information on your suppliers facilitates getting the information you need, when and where you need it.

At a Glance

• Establish and maintain a sound supplier information management strategy.
• Feed flat file supplier information into your enterprise and ERP systems.
• Increase negotiating leverage opportunities with expanded supplier corporate family views.
• Understand diversity penetration across your supply bases.
• Reduce risk and minimize supplier disruptions.
• Support your compliance policies and reporting requirements.

Related Products

• Supplier Risk Manager
• D&B Direct – Supply Management
• Supplier Diversity Data Services

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• Assessment of the long-term financial health of a company: Financial Stress Scores
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