What is supply chain risk intelligence?

Supply chain risk intelligence is the continuous monitoring and financial quantification of risks across a company's supplier network. Chain Verity translates these risks into dollar-denominated exposure values, showing procurement and finance teams exactly how much revenue is at risk from each supplier, updated in real time.

How does Chain Verity differ from traditional supply chain risk platforms?

Traditional tools produce abstract risk scores. Chain Verity produces financial exposure values tied to real contract value, so teams prioritize by business impact, not by score. Chain Verity also monitors tier-2 and tier-3 suppliers and surfaces predictive distress signals weeks before conventional platforms trigger an alert.

What signals does Chain Verity analyze to assess supplier risk?

Chain Verity analyzes more than 200 signals per supplier, including credit ratings, payment behavior, accounts payable trends, news sentiment, ESG scores, geopolitical exposure, and contract renewal windows. These signals are combined into a single explainable risk score, updated daily.

What industries does Chain Verity serve?

Chain Verity serves enterprise procurement and finance teams across manufacturing, financial services, retail and consumer goods, and logistics. Any organization with significant supplier contracts and exposure to supply chain disruption benefits from the platform.

What is the Chain Verity Design Partner Program?

The Chain Verity Design Partner Program is a co-development initiative for senior enterprise procurement leaders who want to shape the platform roadmap before public launch. Design partners receive early platform access, foundational pricing locked for life, and direct influence over product direction.

How large is the supply chain risk management market?

The supply chain risk management market exceeds $15 billion and is growing at approximately 14% annually. The category is fragmented, dominated by legacy platforms built before real-time financial data and AI-driven scoring became viable, and no clear market leader has emerged.

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Supplier risk intelligence for procurement and finance

Find out a supplier is failing before the headlines do.

Chain Verity scores every supplier on financial distress and puts a dollar figure on what you stand to lose. Then it tells you what to do about it: renegotiate, re-source, or watch, with an owner and a deadline.

Reviewed within 24 hoursNo sales deckFounding pricing

Supplier file · SUP-0418

Valtex Industries

High · DPS 82

Warning

8 wks

Exposure

$9.4M

Contracts

Illustrative scenario. Distress Probability Score (DPS) runs 0–100; above 55 is high risk.

$40M+

Average cost to an enterprise of a single supply chain disruption.¹

40%

Of disruptions start beyond tier 1, where almost no one is watching.²

1 action

Every alert ends in a recommended next step, drawn from 200+ signals checked daily.

The problem

Quarterly reviews find out after it's too late to act.

Credit ratings and annual reviews lag reality by months. By the time a supplier's trouble is public, alternatives are booked, contracts are locked, and you are explaining the miss to the board.

Typical process

Quarterly review, credit alerts

WK 0Q1 review: supplier rated fine

WK 13Q2 review: no change logged

WK 22Downgrade hits the news

With Chain Verity

Daily scoring, dollar exposure

WK 8Moves to watch: payables stretching

WK 14High risk: $9.4M flagged to owner

WK 18Second source qualified

The product

Every risk comes with a recommendation.

Every supplier gets a distress score, a dollar exposure tied to your live contracts, and a specific next step. The list sorts itself by money at risk, so the first row is always the first call to make.

Portfolio risk · Direct materials

Example data

Exposure at risk

$38.0M

High risk

Renewals in 90 days

Suppliers scored

412

Supplier	DPS 1	Exposure 2	Tier	Recommendation 3
Valtex IndustriesMachined components · Ohio, US	82	$9.4M	1	Re-source now
Meridian GroupGas controls · Monterrey, MX	70	$7.2M	1	Renegotiate
Corvin SystemsValves · Gdańsk, PL	48	$7.4M	2	Watch 90 days
Hartmann Drives GmbHFan motors · Stuttgart, DE	22	$3.1M	2	No action

A score you can explain

Each score lists the signals behind it, like stretched payables or a covenant breach, in plain language.

Exposure in dollars

Tied to contract value and lead time, so a small supplier on a critical part is never buried.

Actionable recommendations

Every flag comes with a specific action, like re-source, renegotiate or add a second supplier, routed to the right owner with a deadline and a playbook.

How it works

Live in a week, not a quarter.

No ERP project to start. Send us a supplier list and your top contracts, and your first risk ranking is ready the same week.

Step 1

Upload your supplier list

A CSV export or API connection. We match each supplier to financial filings, registries and news sources.

Day 1

Step 2

Get your first risk ranking

Every supplier scored for distress and sized by exposure, including the tier 2 and 3 suppliers behind them.

Day 3–5

Step 3

Act on the recommendations

Score changes go to the right owner by email, Slack or Teams, with the reason and a recommended next step.

Every day after

Design partner program

Five seats. Founding terms. A direct line to the people building it.

We're onboarding a small group of procurement and finance leaders before public launch. You bring the real problems; we build around them.

Founding pricing, locked for the life of your contract
Weekly working sessions with the founders
Your top suppliers scored during onboarding
Named as a founding partner at launch, if you want it

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Cohort 1 · seat map

5seats in cohort 1

24hreview time

Supply Chain Insights

Research for people who manage supplier risk.

Practical analysis on supplier distress, sub-tier visibility and procurement strategy from the Chain Verity team.

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All insights

Questions

What procurement leaders ask us first.

Is this live, or still being built?

The risk engine is running and scoring suppliers today. Design partners get full access before general availability and help decide what ships next.

What do the recommendations look like?

Each flagged supplier gets one specific action, such as re-source, renegotiate, add a second supplier or watch for 90 days. It comes with the reasons behind it, an owner and a deadline.

Do we need to connect our ERP?

No. A CSV of suppliers and top contracts is enough to start. Direct SAP, Oracle and Coupa connections are on the roadmap, and design partners set the order.

How is this different from a credit rating service?

Credit ratings update slowly and say nothing about what you stand to lose. We score distress daily from 200+ signals and tie it to your own contract value and lead times.

What about private suppliers with no public filings?

They get a full assessment too, built from registry data, payment behavior, news and comparable companies, with a clear note on which inputs were used.

What does it cost?

Design partners get founding pricing that stays locked in. We'll share the numbers on the first call once we understand your supplier count.

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See your riskiest supplier this week.

Tell us a little about your supply base. A founder replies within one business day to set up a 30-minute call.

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