Challenge

Fragmented onboarding and management creates hidden risk across retail supply chains

Procurement is often responsible for enabling speed to market while controlling third-party risk, yet disjointed onboarding and risk monitoring processes make it difficult to enforce consistent risk controls across GFR and GNFR suppliers.

80

%

of businesses admit that manual due diligence slows down onboarding and increases compliance gaps.

1Deloitte, “Third-Party Governance and Risk Management Survey”

75

%

of companies say they lack an integrated, real-time view of third-party risks.

2Gartner, “Third-Party Risk Management: Market Guide”

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annual amount loss at companies due to payment fraud.

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Solution

Built-in risk controls. From day one.

apexanalytix provides a centalized hub for supplier lifecycle and risk management across every ERP and P2P system.

 

Suppliers self-register through a branded portal while configurable workflows, real-time validations and approvals enforce consistent risk and compliance standards for both GFR and GNFR.

 

Compliance and risk requirements can be tailored by segment, ensuring suppliers are onboarded only with the required data, documentation, certifications and approvals.

To ensure accurate data and prevent fraud, apexanalytix connects to 1,000+ global authoritative data sources to validate tax IDs, addresses, bank details and sanctions lists at onboarding, then continuously monitors suppliers for changes—helping Procurement proactively identify and mitigate risk across the supplier lifecycle.

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End-to-End Third-Party Risk Management

Manage Risks at Every Stage

From discovery to onboarding and due diligence to continuous monitoring and ongoing compliance, apexanalytix streamlines risk management across every stage of the supplier lifecycle.

Activation
Sourcing & Pre-Qualification

Identify and mitigate risks early by pre-qualifying, before engaging in business with them.

Gain visibility from the beginning. After an internal team member completes an Inherent Risk Questionnaire, they can invite the third-party to complete registration online. The submitted information is automatically validated. If their answers meet the established risk threshold, their profile is seamlessly stored in a searchable database for further engagement now or at a later time.

Or connect to your sourcing systems and trigger appropriate security reviews before contract discussions begin.

Registration
Onboarding & Due Diligence

Eliminate manual work and reduce the chances of overlooking risks. Onboard third parties quickly and confidently.

Easily configure all of your compliance requirements by segment, ensuring that each third party is onboarded based on your specific requirements. If any requirements or policies change, your team can easily update them. Simplify the complexity of third-party onboarding with automation and built-in compliance features.

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Continuous, Prioritized Monitoring

Monitor critical third-party data, filtered by risk category. So internal teams stay informed without the noise.

Proactively monitor third-party vulnerabilities, dark-web chatter and news, validate key details like bank accounts, and enrich profiles with certifications and compliance data.

This continuous monitoring ensures data accuracy, supports regulatory compliance, and creates a single source of truth that drives efficient operations, smarter decisions, and stronger third-party relationships.

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AI-powered Risk Resolution

Don't just identify and assess risk. Resolve it.

Resolve concerns in less time. The system triggers a response aligned with your policy for each specific risk, engaging stakeholders when necessary.

Built-in collaboration, task creation and risk resolution recommendations automatically implement your policies. Audit-ready dashboards stay updated every step of the way.

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Renewal, offboarding, and end-of-lifecycle controls

Reassess risk prior to renewal

Risk often peaks during transitions. Proper offboarding closes vulnerabilities, confirms the organization meets all obligations and ensures no unmanaged access or data remains.

GFR Suppliers

Shelf-Aware Procurement: Why GFR Directors Stock Up on apexanalytix

For Procurement Directors of GFR, success is measured in speed to shelf, assortment agility, and flawless execution with critical brands and private label partners.

apexanalytix’s supplier registration hub helps vendors become trade-ready faster, reduce revenue-impacting payment issues, and deliver one consistent global onboarding experience for merchandise suppliers.

 

Workflows

Speed to shelf & assortment agility

Self-service portal and golden records shorten the path from “we want this brand/supplier” to “this vendor is trade-ready.”

Speed to onboard directly protects sales and seasonal launches.

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Fewer revenue impacting payment issues

Strong tax and bank account validations reduce payment delays that can sour relationships with strategic brands and private label manufacturers.

Funding

One global experience for merchandise vendors

A single, configurable supplier portal across banners simplifies onboarding for large global suppliers and supports consistent compliance (safety, ESG, product-linked requirements).

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Compliance at onboarding

Capturing and validating critical data (tax, ESG, diversity, and regulatory) up front supports product compliance and brand promises tied to what ends up on the shelf or site.

GNFR Suppliers

Keeping the Lights On (Literally): GNFR Procurement’s Secret Weapon

GNFR Procurement Directors are on the hook for payment risk, audit findings, and service levels for a lot of internal operations.

apexanalytix provides a single GNFR supplier hub across functions and ERPs, powered by 1,000+ validation sources so procurement can enforce strong disbursement and fraud controls while cleaning up duplicates and bad data.

Early Payments

Stronger GNFR disbursement and risk controls

Real-time validation of tax IDs, addresses, sanctions lists, and bank account ownership gives them direct control over GNFR payment risk. It also helps reduce audit findings and strengthen fraud prevention.

Workflows

Single GNFR supplier hub across multiple ERPs

A central supplier master validated against 1,000+ data sources cleans up duplicates and bad data across all GNFR categories (facilities, logistics, IT, marketing, etc.).

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Lower cost to serve & better internal SLAs

Touchless onboarding and continuous monitoring reduce manual tickets, rework, and invoice corrections. This helps procurement hit SLA and cost targets for store operations and other functions.

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Configurable workflows across GNFR categories

No-code workflows let procurement configure requirements themselves. So every supplier type can be updated when requirements change for that segment.

Features

Powered by the apex platform

Providing Procurement with controls and visibility to onboard suppliers and mitigate third-party risk.

Intelligence Technology

Al with Real Impact

Our AI-enabled platform continuously monitors risk indicators, aligns evidence with your frameworks, summarizes insights, and automatically orchestrates remediation with approved task creation. Delivering measurable time‑to‑value and instilling confidence for every stakeholder.

Questionnaires

Pre-built Supplier Questionnaires

Use best-practice questionnaires for financial standing, cyber/IT risk, business continuity and ethics – and extend them with product safety and ESG data elements for merchandise vendors.

Validations

Real-Time Data Validation

Validate tax IDs, addresses, diversity status, sanctions and bank account ownership in real time to prevent fraud and payment errors across both GFR and GNFR suppliers.

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Foundational Agnostic Technology

Integrate with every ERP and P2P system so procurement can standardize supplier onboarding across banners, business units and functions – without ripping and replacing existing tools.

Workflows

Customized Workflows

Configure approvals based on category, spend, risk, country or brand – so a high-risk GNFR vendor gets a different path than a low-risk merchandise supplier.

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One Hub For Everything

Create one trusted supplier record across all ERPs and P2P systems, enriched with golden records and continuous monitoring. This eliminates duplicates and vendor master issues that drive invoice blocks and rework.

Forrester TEI Study

$2.1M recovered. 168% ROI. Six-month payback.

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Case Study: Bank Account Validation

Fraud to Zero:
Blocking Increasingly Creative Fraudsters With Technology That Replaces Manual Processes

“Bank account validation is an evolving practice. We’ve got to find technological advances to help us drive improvement initiatives and help us bring additional value to the company by deploying resources to other areas to create greater value.

apexanalytix gives us the ability to do that.”

Director of Finance & Procurement at a $100B Company

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apexanalytix has elevated the way we work with suppliers.
Amy Platis, Director of Finance, APM at Northwestern Medicine Hear Amy's Story
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Time to onboard a supplier went down significantly.
John Kalina, VP Administrative Services at Independence Blue Cross Hear John's Story
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Supplier Management

Every. All. 100%

A single, central supplier hub for every supplier, all of your policies and integration with 100% of your source-to-pay systems.

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Audit and Recovery

$9 billion in overpayments prevented or recovered annually.

More insights. More expertise. More supplier intelligence. More recoveries than any other provider in the world.

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Supplier Risk Management

Disrupt the disruption.

Prevent fines, fraud and supply chain disruptions with continuous monitoring of your supply base – without the noise.

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Intelligent Data

Data in. Gold out.

The fastest way to validate and enrich your third-party data with APIs tapping 1,000+ trusted data sources and 280 million company golden records.

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Customer Stories

Peak performers
pick apex.

Whether long-form webinars or in-person conference presentations, our clients love to share best practices - what drives measurable value - with their peers.

7x

faster average supplier onboarding
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“Game changing speed. Now we can do same day onboarding.”

Chuck Stefanosky, Supplier Diversity Director

53%

increase in supplier discounts taken annually
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“apexanalytix has exponentially changed our whole supplier onboarding process.”

Amy Platis, Director of Finance
Resources

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Hundreds of product overviews, reports, customer-led webinars and on-demand product demos.

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Webinars

AI Makes Supplier Management Touchless at Independence Blue Cross

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Webinars

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Reports

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