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Supply Chain Risk Management

Supply chain risk intelligence connected to your business

Understand which risks matter, which products and dependencies are exposed, and where action is needed before disruption reaches your business.

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Supplier 360 Intelligence

Supplier 360 Intelligence

Gain a holistic view of your risk portfolio to assess where and how to intervene. Uncover hidden vulnerabilities with multi-tier mapping and use AI-generated summaries to distill hundreds of signals into clear, actionable insights. Act with confidence and drive coordinated responses across your entire supply chain.
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Supplier Engagement

Supplier Engagement

Engage suppliers at scale to collect critical data, close gaps, and stay audit-ready. Launch multilingual campaigns, track responses, and centralize evidence for due diligence, Product Carbon Footprint, and compliance.
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Achieve robust and resilient supply chains

One platform. Two powerful capabilities to prevent, and respond to risk.

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Supplier 360 Intelligence

Supplier Engagement

Know sooner. Decide faster. Act smarter.

Supply chain risk is no longer confined to the suppliers you buy from. A disruption can begin with a critical material, a processor several tiers upstream, a concentrated geography or a company you have never dealt with directly, then move through the supply chain until it affects products, production and revenue.

Sphera Supply Chain Risk Management brings external risk intelligence together with your suppliers, products, commodities and multi-tier dependencies. It helps teams understand what is changing, determine what matters to the business and coordinate the right response while there is still time to act.

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Why supply chain leaders choose Sphera

Built for complex, high-volume supply chains

Understand the risks across your supplier network

Continuously monitor financial, operational, geopolitical, compliance, cyber and other risks across your supplier portfolio.

Find the dependencies behind your suppliers

Sphera's product-centric N-Tier Intelligence starts with your products and critical components, then maps the Tier 1, Tier 2 and Tier 3 suppliers and supply paths behind them.

Understand which risks actually matter

Connect supplier risk with business context to help teams understand product exposure and potential impacts across revenue, cost and reputation.

Move from risk identified to risk resolved

When a risk requires action, Sphera helps teams manage the response in the same risk context. Prioritise issues, assign actions to the appropriate owners, track mitigation progress and maintain an audit trail through to resolution.

Collect the information you need directly from suppliers

Engage suppliers at scale through multilingual assessments, questionnaires and targeted campaigns.
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Supply chain intelligence that goes deeper than the supplier

You should be able to investigate supply chain risk from the question you need answered, whether that question starts with a supplier, a product, a geography or an emerging event.

With Conversational AI in Sphera SCRM, users can explore their SCRM intelligence through natural-language questions such as:

  • Which suppliers need my attention today?
  • Which of my product lines are most at risk?
  • What changed for this supplier?
  • Where do we have critical upstream dependencies?

Sphera’s MCP server also enables authorised users to access live SCRM risk intelligence through compatible enterprise AI environments. Existing SCRM permissions continue to govern what each user can access.

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The Sphera Risk Response & Resolution Centre helps teams move from identifying a significant supplier or supply chain risk to deciding what needs to happen, who needs to act and whether the response is working. Prioritised risks are connected to mitigation actions, owners and progress in one place, with automated escalation helping prevent important issues from being overlooked.

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Some of the most important supply-chain dependencies do not become obvious when you start with a list of suppliers.

Sphera can start with a critical product, decompose it into the components and materials it depends on, validate those relationships against the Tier 1 supplier base and trace the supply paths further upstream. Once mapped, those suppliers and supply paths can be monitored within SCRM.

This makes it possible to investigate questions such as which products are exposed, where several product lines depend on the same source and where apparent supplier diversification ultimately converges on a common upstream dependency.

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A supplier can be financially healthy and operationally capable while still depending on a material that is becoming difficult to source.

Sphera Commodity Risk Tracker helps teams monitor risk at the commodity level alongside supplier and supply-chain intelligence. This provides additional context for critical-material exposure and helps organisations investigate risks that may begin further upstream than the suppliers they deal with directly.

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Supply chain intelligence that goes deeper than the supplier

Built around your products

Trace critical components and materials through multi-tier supply paths so risk can be understood in the context of the products your business actually depends on.

Risk intelligence at scale

Combine global media monitoring, premium third-party data, proprietary intelligence and AI to identify relevant supplier and supply-chain risk from a very large volume of external information.

Business impact in context

Go beyond risk scores to understand which suppliers and dependencies matter to products, revenue, cost and reputation.

Intelligence across multiple levels

Investigate risk across individual suppliers, the wider portfolio, commodities and upstream dependencies rather than treating each supplier as an isolated entity.

From intelligence to response

Connect risk intelligence with assessment, mitigation, ownership and progress tracking so teams can manage issues through to resolution.

AI that works with your intelligence

Ask questions directly within SCRM through Conversational AI or securely access SCRM intelligence from compatible enterprise AI environments through MCP.

BT Sourced


Diarmuid O’ Donoghue
Senior Procurement Manager, Digital Transformation

“At BT Sourced, we integrate risk in our decision-making processes from qualification of suppliers to contracting.​ We are proactive, react faster, and that is why we partnered with Sphera to help us monitor key risks across multiple domains in real-time: financial, anti- bribery, information security, data privacy and business continuity.”

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