Source-level evidence
Every signal, score and recommendation links back to the underlying record — the email, the filing, the transaction, the document — with the source visible at a click.
Procurement
Know who you are really buying from — and what it will cost you.
For procurement, sourcing and supplier management leaders.
The supplier master shows one entity. The graph shows five: shared owners, shared addresses, shared directors, sanctions exposure and financial distress. Compass makes hidden risk visible before the PO is cut — and turns every negotiation into a data-backed conversation.
The problem
Supplier onboarding relies on self-declared data. Concentration risk is only spotted after an incident. Tenders are ranked on price and lead time, blind to collusion, hidden ownership and single-source exposure. Negotiations start without knowing what the counterparty just closed with peers.
Data we integrate
- 01ERP & P2P (SAP Ariba, Coupa, Oracle, Ivalua) — suppliers, POs, spend, contracts
- 02Company registries — Companies House, Registro Imprese, InfoCamere, OpenCorporates
- 03Sanctions & PEP lists — EU, UN, OFAC, HMT, national
- 04Financial data — credit scores, filings, litigation
- 05Adverse media & ESG feeds, tender & procurement portals
How we contextualize
- Entity resolution across supplier records — deduplicates aliases, subsidiaries and shell layers.
- Beneficial ownership graph — surfaces shared owners, directors and addresses across a portfolio.
- Concentration analysis by category, geography and Tier-N dependency.
- Tender-integrity signals: overlapping IPs, sequential bid IDs, coordinated pricing.
AI Skills available to this team
Trade & Supply Chain
Supplier Risk Radar
Continuously monitors the supplier base for financial distress, sanctions, ESG events and single-source concentration.
Run skill
Trade & Supply Chain
Tender Integrity Monitor
Scans public and private tenders for collusion signals, hidden beneficial owners and abnormal bidding patterns.
Run skill
Trade & Supply Chain
Counterparty Network Map
Reveals hidden ownership chains, intermediaries and shared directors across a portfolio of counterparties.
Run skill
Risk & Compliance
Third-Party Due Diligence
Builds an evidence-backed dossier on any counterparty — ownership, litigation, sanctions, adverse media — in minutes instead of days.
Run skill
What you get out
Reports, decks, Excel, dashboards and alerts — ready to ship.
Brief (PDF)
Supplier due-diligence dossier
Evidence-cited PDF: ownership graph, sanctions/PEP hits, litigation, ESG events, financial health, red flags.
Excel
Category spend & concentration model
Structured Excel with spend by category, top suppliers, concentration KPIs, Tier-N exposure and mitigations.
Dashboard
Supplier risk dashboard
Live portfolio view of at-risk suppliers with drill-down into evidence and history.
Graph
Ownership & tender network
Interactive graph exposing hidden links between bidders, subsidiaries and beneficial owners.
Alert
Onboarding & re-screening alerts
Automatic re-screening when a supplier changes ownership, appears on a list, or shows financial distress.
A concrete case
Three ‘independent’ bidders. One beneficial owner. €12M tender re-run.
A CPO ran a €12M IT services tender. On paper, five independent bidders. Compass resolved the entities, unmasked ownership and revealed that three of the five shared a beneficial owner two hops away, plus overlapping directors and coordinated bidding patterns. The tender was re-run, the ring documented in an audit-ready dossier, and the supplier master enriched with the new links.
Trust by design
Evidence, explainability, audit — built into every output.
Explainable recommendations
No black-box outputs. Each priority states why it was promoted, which signals contributed, which were declassed, and which model version produced it.
Audit trail by default
Signals, model versions, reviewers and actions are logged and reconstructable later — ready for internal control, regulators and your own governance.
Human-in-the-loop
Compass recommends. Authorized people decide. Every consequential action requires a named reviewer who can confirm, override or annotate the reasoning.
See Compass on your data.
We bring a demo on your domain: which relationships emerge, which signals fire, which outputs we could deliver today.