Case Study: a tier 1 global supply-chain operator cuts TAPA audit prep 78% with RiskWatch

a Tier 1 global supply-chain operator cuts TAPA audit prep 78% with RiskWatch

The customer, an anonymized tier 1 global supply-chain operator, faced a significant challenge in managing its TAPA FSR certification across 40+ sites in 12 different languages. Evidence was scattered across regional SharePoint folders, making it impossible for the headquarters team to get a single view of compliance readiness, and each surveillance audit required a lengthy, repetitive evidence-gathering process. The vendor RiskWatch provided its risk and compliance management software platform to address this.

RiskWatch implemented a unified TAPA FSR 2024 library in a single tenant for all sites, which included multilingual evidence intake and cross-mapping to other frameworks like ISO 28000. This solution cut audit preparation by 78% and reduced per-site surveillance audit time from 12 weeks to just 4. The results included a 100% surveillance audit pass rate and annual labor savings of $1.2M, allowing compliance staff to be reallocated to other tasks.

Anonymized Tier 1 Global Supply-chain Operator