Supplier risk management: Control your risks

Safeguard your business by analyzing your suppliers’ credit risk.

Minimize supplier risk with assurance

At Coface, we not only track supplier health—we enable you to take action based on it.

Effectively managing supplier risk is essential for safeguarding your supply chain and fostering growth. This is why Coface Business Information offers more than mere data: it delivers real-time, expert-driven insights backed by our global Data Factory and nearly 80 years of credit insurance experience.

With access to high-quality, continuously updated information—utilized daily by our own underwriters—you can evaluate the financial stability of your suppliers, foresee potential disruptions, and make informed, proactive decisions. Whether you are onboarding new partners or overseeing existing ones, our insights assist you in minimizing credit risk, uncovering opportunities, and enhancing your operational resilience.

Clear indicators to help you make decisions

Coface provides credit risk insights through user-friendly dashboards, interactive reports, and real-time notifications. Each element is crafted to be straightforward, actionable, and easily understandable. You receive not just data, but information that is ready for decision-making, enabling you to respond quickly and stay proactive against risks.

A unified dashboard for supplier oversight 

View and track all your suppliers on a single dashboard. Our indicators, standardised on a global scale, give you clear and immediate visibility to measure and compare the financial health of your partners. This ensures robust supplier risk management and accurate risk mapping. 

Country Risk Assessment (CRA): Understand global influence  

  • Determine the risks associated with your partners’ country of origin using the Country Risk Assessment (CRA). Expressed on a scale from A1 to E, it reflects a country's potential influence on companies’ financial commitments, enhancing the quality of your credit risk management. 

Coface Score: Instantly assess default risk

  • Instantly assess the financial health of your suppliers with the Coface Score, a score on a scale of 0 to 10 that reflects the risk of payment default within 12 months. This supplier risk assessment is essential for proactive management. 

Exclusive, actionable data beyond the public domain

In contrast to typical providers, Coface offers exclusive insights that are absent from public databases, enhanced by years of global trade expertise and firsthand intelligence. By utilizing Coface Business Information, you obtain access to unique, decision-ready data that provides you with a competitive advantage in evaluating risk and opportunity.

Access proprietary payment history and behavioural data 

Through its credit insurance business, Coface collects high value-added data that goes far beyond public information and includes, companies' payment histories and behaviour. This experience enables us to offer a quality of information that is unique in the world, enriched and constantly updated by our credit risk experts and analysts. With our solutions and indicators, you have access to high-quality information that is immediately readable and actionable to optimise your supplier risk management. Receive alerts in case of changes and detect weak signals.  

Alerts and weak signal detection to stay ahead of risk 

With our solutions and indicators, you have access to high-quality information that is immediately readable and actionable to optimise your supplier risk management. Receive alerts in case of changes and detect weak signals. 

Data enriched and verified by 600+ financial experts

Behind every data point is the expertise of Coface’s global analyst network. Our 600+ risk management experts validate, enrich, and interpret data, ensuring you receive insights that are not only accurate, but truly actionable.

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What does a summary report contain?

  • Basic information about the company
  • Key financial indicators
  • A quick assessment, based on the Credit Score
  • The Coface Adjustment, which takes into account our payment experience
  • Our Maximum Credit Recommendation

You receive the Summary Report on companies in over 60 countries instantly.

What is in a Full report ?

  • Information about the company and its management
  • Complete and illustrated financial data
  • The Credit Score, on a scale of 1 to 10, gives the probability of the company defaulting in the next 12 months.
  • Third party payment experience
  • The Coface Adjustment, which takes into account our payment experience as a credit insurer
  • Our Maximum Credit Recommendation

Full Reports are available in 195 countries, and are delivered either instantly or within 1-9 days depending on the country of the company.

Urba360, our all-in-one solution to master your supplier risk management

With Urba360, you gain access to a user-friendly, high-quality business information platform. Evaluate the credit risks associated with all your suppliers and obtain essential insights for prompt and informed decision-making.

  • Six key indicators

    Financial solvency score, maximum credit recommendation, sector and country trends, financial ratios, and payment behavior monitoring: easily accessible indicators that allow you to confidently assess a company's financial stability and protect your cash flow.

  • 245 million companies in 200 markets

    Access exclusive data from our international network covering more than 240 million companies in 200 countries for supplier risk assessment worldwide.

  • 600 risk management experts

    Our international network of 600 experts consistently publishes macroeconomic analyses, country risk evaluations, sector assessments, and thematic reports.

  • €725 billion in exposure

    Use the data we use every day to make credit decisions and secure transactions.

Why did they choose Coface Business Information?

Matt Ahmad, Treasury Manager and Credit Manager, Argent Energy

The combination of local knowledge, industry insights, and proactive support makes Coface a highly valuable partner.

Venceslas Fedolliere, Director of Treasury, Financing and Credit Management, GEODIS

The data must be harmonised, so a Coface Score of 5 means that the score is 5 in France, but also in the USA and China.

Dinetah SIMS, Senior Vice President, MITH

We need a partner with a global presence, a wealth of information on our various counterparties, and the ability to act quickly.

Frequently asked questions

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