Case Study: a large multinational online retail company minimizes supply chain risk with S&P Global Market Intelligence

Minimizing Supply Chain Risk at a Large Online Retailer

The sustainability group at a large multinational online retail company needed to help its supply chain management team vet thousands of global suppliers for social responsibility. They faced the challenge of manually identifying firms that did not meet their criteria for fair labor practices and wanted to efficiently find other companies doing business with those non-compliant entities. They turned to S&P Global for a solution.

S&P Global implemented its Panjiva Supply Chain Intelligence solution, which provided comprehensive global trade data and a Network View tool to visualize company relationships. This enabled the team to quickly map supplier and customer networks, automate their search for non-compliant firms, and set alerts on partners. The solution from S&P Global saved the team significant time, scaled their vetting process with robust data, and allowed them to efficiently create a list of qualified and non-qualified suppliers to mitigate risk.