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Predictive Scoring for more comprehensive supplier management

Predictive Scoring for more comprehensive supplier management

No touch ESG risk analysis of all your suppliers worldwide

Many professionals that are responsible for supply chain risk management have traditionally skipped over long-tail suppliers in their risk management processes, because of the perceived high cost and time investment involved. But with pressure to gain greater supply chain visibility, many are looking for a solution. That’s where the Achilles Predictive Score comes in.

The Achilles Predictive Score is a very fast and effective supply chain risk management solution for long tail and non critical suppliers that doesn’t require any direct supplier engagement. It uses sophisticated Achilles proprietary algorithms, more than 30 years of Achilles supply chain risk expertise and publicly available data to deliver an accurate ESG focused assessment of risk.

Key Benefits

The Achilles Predictive Score gives your business the power to:

  • Leverage decades of Achilles expertise to generate an accurate Predictive Score for every supplier you work with.
  • Proactively identify risks that were previously hidden within your supply chain.
  • Enhance sustainability efforts by improving oversight of ESG practices of all suppliers.
  • Continuously monitor your entire supply chain to address evolving risks.

Risk access all suppliers, fast

Procurement, sustainability and food tech professionals that already use the Achilles platform to manage critical suppliers will be familiar with the Achilles Sustainability Score that uses 100% validated data captured direct from suppliers to calculate a highly accurate scores across multiple risk metrics – including finance, health and safety and ESG.

Now with the Achilles Predictive Score, you can also undertake ESG risk assessment on a much greater scale across your entire supply chain and benefit from important insight into previously unidentified risks. Better still, this is an incredibly quick process – with full initial analysis typically taking less than 7 days.

Drive risk management efficiencies

Use the Achilles Predictive Score to help you make your supply chain due diligence processes more efficient. Putting all suppliers through the initial Predictive Scoring process helps to identifies where your risk focus should be and enables targeted deeper levels of assessment including questionnaires and audits for better and more cost-effective results.

Continuously monitor all suppliers

Once set up, the Predictive Score process continuously monitors all suppliers, revising Scoring as supplier performance evolves, both to ensure data stays aligned with sustainability goals and also provide early insight into changes in risk levels that may impact your business – in real-time.

Report on your entire supply chain

Predictive Scores are displayed in Achilles Analytics enabling users to quickly run reports and compile charts to analyse data further and keep track of overall supply performance.

Image of a women viewing Achilles analytics on a laptop while sitting at a white desk. The screen shows the Achilles score for a supplier together with the change in performance over time. Her spectacles and phone are on the desk to the side of her laptop.
Achilles Predictive Scoring enables users to analyse performance across the entire supply chain and run reports to meet a wide range of requirements.

How It Works

  1. Data Collection: Achilles retrieves and analyzes data from public domain sources, third-party databases, and historical supply chain risk assessments.
  2. Proprietary Risk Scoring: Leveraging decades of risk management expertise, Achilles applies advanced algorithms to assess suppliers’ ESG credentials, credibility, and compliance.
  3. Predictive Insights: Procurement, sustainability and food tech teams receive a clear, actionable predictive risk score that helps them prioritize deeper supplier due diligence and decision-making.

Why It Matters

Assessing suppliers—especially lower-risk or ad-hoc ones—can be challenging, yet these suppliers can still pose hidden risks. The Achilles Predictive Score enables procurement teams to:

  • Streamline supplier evaluations while maintaining accuracy and compliance.
  • Proactively identify risk hotspots within their supply chain.
  • Enhance sustainability and ESG efforts by improving oversight of the practices of all suppliers.
  • Improve operational efficiency by reducing manual supplier assessments.

With its data-driven approach and decades of supply chain expertise, the Achilles Predictive Score is fast becoming an essential tool for organizations looking to enhance risk management while optimizing procurement processes.

Get in touch to learn more about Achilles Predictive Scoring

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