Case: Vendor Due Diligence — screening 500+ suppliers for a Fortune 500 retailer

Client: a global retailer (Fortune 50, 50,000+ active suppliers). Requirement: continuous vendor monitoring.

AgentD22 Data solutions Vendor Shield solution:

Daily screening of 500+ suppliers against 100+ risk sources
Sources: sanctions lists (50+), adverse media (50K+ sources), court records (30 jurisdictions), financial health (credit scores, bankruptcies), ESG (forced labour, emissions, governance), cyber posture (breach history, vulnerability exposure)
Risk scoring model (0-100): geographic (30%), sector (20%), entity (25%), financial (15%), cyber (10%)
Tiering: critical (score above 70) — monthly deep dive, high (50-70) — quarterly, medium (30-50) — semi-annual, low — annual
Integration: SAP Ariba API creates Risk Assessment tasks for the procurement team automatically
False positive reduction: an ensemble ML model (XGBoost plus neural net) — precision 0.96, recall 0.98

Results over a year:

90% of checks automated (previously 40% manual)
127 high-risk events identified: 23 sanctions hits, 34 adverse media clusters, 45 financial distress signals, 25 ESG violations
Prevented potential losses of 8M through early termination of contracts with distressed vendors
New vendor onboarding cut from 3 days to 4 hours
Big 4 audit — zero findings on vendor risk management

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