Dun & Bradstreet Provides Deep Insight into Supplier Risk

Volatility, instability, disruption – all are pain points for procurement teams. 

In addition, a lack of visibility into supplier risk and potential supply chain disruption can further exacerbate the likelihood of disruption. It’s one of the many reasons why procurement teams need deep insight to know exactly who they’re doing business with. 

Any operational transformation, like what Straumann USA underwent, requires connecting fragmented and incomplete datasets with a solid foundation of trusted data. Entity data management ensures consistency so that teams from different departments all have access to the same data and insights.   

Straumann USA could not achieve its procurement transformation without the help of Dun & Bradstreet.    

Dun & Bradstreet, a leading global provider of business decisioning data and analytics, had been working with Straumann USA for almost a decade. Its finance team had been using D&B Finance Analytics for credit risk management. 

Category Manager Joe Aiello approached Dun & Bradstreet about its offerings for vendor risk assessments and TPRM.  

Dun & Bradstreet’s data and analytics are delivered flexibly – via files, API, or through its own software platforms. Its flagship software, D&B Risk Analytics – Supplier Intelligence, helps procurement and supply teams screen and evaluate suppliers, mitigate current and future risk, and achieve a new level of visibility.   

Straumann USA chose D&B Risk Analytics – Supplier Intelligence to help control costs, gain visibility, and prevent operational disruption.   

“Dun & Bradstreet’s comprehensive data on more than 600 million public and private entities around the world helps procurement leaders establish visibility across a broad set of risk categories to ensure proper supplier risk management,” said Brian Filanowski, the General Manager of Finance & Risk Solutions at Dun & Bradstreet. “We know that supply chains are complex and risk is multi-faceted, and our risk scores and ratings, including the D&B Supplier Evaluation Risk (SER) Rating and the D&B Supplier Stability Indicator (SSI) are specifically designed for vendor risk.” 

Dun & Bradstreet also offers expanded insights into alternate sourcing data such as ESG, ownership, cyber risk, disaster resilience, and shipping to help ensure end-to-end risk coverage.