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Supplier due diligence is the process of checking a supplier before and during a commercial relationship. Company identity, ownership, financial health and relevant changes help a procurement team assess who it is contracting with, where the uncertainties are and what further checks the relationship needs.

Start with the legal company name, country and registration identifier. Confirm that the contracting business matches the company record. Review disclosed ownership, available accounts and relevant credit information. Record gaps, assess the supplier’s importance to your operations, and agree any additional evidence, approvals and monitoring your policy requires.

Compare several periods of available financial statements. Look at profitability, cash, working capital, debt and liquidity alongside credit indicators and their dates. Check whether accounts are consolidated or relate to the individual supplier entity. Growing sales or a positive credit score alone does not establish financial stability.

Where the data is available, you can review direct shareholders, parent companies and group relationships. Business Credit Reports also provides UBO research tools. A direct shareholding is not the same as a complete beneficial ownership determination: check the ownership threshold, the resolved chain and any gaps before relying on the result.

No. A credit score is a modelled indicator, not a guarantee of delivery, payment or business continuity. A recommended credit limit is not automatically a suitable advance payment or procurement exposure. Consider the underlying evidence, its age, your commitments and how difficult the supplier would be to replace.

Supported company events include status changes, new annual financial filings, director appointments and resignations, and disclosed ownership or group changes. Available events and update timing depend on the company, country and source. Agree the relevant indicators for your portfolio and use a change as a reason to review the evidence.

Set a review schedule that reflects the supplier’s importance, your exposure, the age of the evidence and the relationship. Add event-based reviews for material changes, new commitments, advance payments or renewals. Company monitoring complements scheduled reviews; the absence of an alert does not establish that risk is unchanged.

Our company intelligence covers 600 million companies across 200 countries. The depth of available accounts, ownership, credit information and monitoring varies by market and entity. Share your supplier countries and required fields so we can check the coverage relevant to your portfolio.

Yes. Platform access, APIs, MCP access and licensed data feeds can support different company research workflows. MCP provides supported tools in compatible AI assistants and agents; it does not imply every data field or monitoring action is available as a tool. We can scope delivery, fields, licensing and updates to your requirements.

Company identity, ownership and financial evidence support part of a supplier assessment. Sanctions screening, ESG, information security, operational resilience and site-specific checks have separate evidence requirements. Define the checks your supplier policy needs and confirm the products and data required for each part of the review.