
Intelligent risk rating of global suppliers
Challenge
A multinational company specialising in the supply chain risk management wanted to reinforce its value proposition: helping large companies build supply chains. safer and more sustainableThe business model required a new business model, managing risk, compliance and third party assessment.
The business model required rating the risk of thousands of companies in multiple countriesin different languages and in a number of key regulatory scenarios:
- Privacy and data protection
- Cybersecurity
- Criminal liability of the legal person
The manual analysis and scoring process was slow, difficult to scale and at risk of inconsistency. The company needed:
- A system automated and consistent supplier qualification.
- Ability to work in multi-country and multilingual.
- A robust risk model, aligned with the actual behaviour of sanctioning authorities and the level of compliance maturity of each supplier.
Approach
ECIX Tech implemented a solution based on the algorithms of MIA Enterpriseintegrating advanced AI capabilities for sanctioning threat analysis and compliance level calculation per supplier, with the proprietary methodology Ecix Risk Approach.
The approach combined:
- Risk rating automation of thousands of suppliers, using models trained to understand documentation and evaluation responses in different languages.
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Application of the Ecix Risk ApproachThe company is rated according to the following criteria:
- Threats and impact (quantitative and qualitative) on the basis of the historical performance of sanctioning bodies and supervisory authorities.
- Maturity level of complianceThe Commission's assessment is based on third party evaluations and documentary evidence.
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Use of MIA Enterprise modules for:
- Analyse responses and evidence in the scenarios of Privacy, Cybersecurity and Criminal (legal person).
- Generate a homogeneous risk scoreThe results of this study are explained and comparable across companies, countries and sectors.
The solution was integrated into the customer's standard processes as a automated rating servicewhich powers its supply chain risk management platform.
Results
Thanks to the implementation of MIA Enterprise and the Ecix Risk Approach, the multinational achieved:
- Scaling risk rating to thousands of companies in multiple countries and languageswithout a proportional increase in human resources, automatically through API integrations.
- Get consistent and comparable ratings in Privacy, Cybersecurity and Criminal Law, with homogeneous criteria and based on the actual behaviour of the sanctioning authorities.
- Significantly increase the speed of analysisThe company is moving from slow manual cycles to an automated model capable of processing large volumes of suppliers in very short timeframes.
- Offer your corporate clients more accurate, traceable and explainable risk reportsThe company's position as a benchmark in supply chain risk and compliance management has been strengthened.





