The challenge
The assessment needs to keep up with the supplier.
Buyers need a consistent way to assess suppliers and keep up with changing risks. A score on its own is not enough: they need the records behind it and a clear view of what deserves attention.
The challenge is to make that review useful in day-to-day purchasing, without leaving an agent to make strategic supplier choices on its own.
With Novagentica
Agree the review before running the agent.
This application starts with the criteria buyers use to assess a supplier. The agent’s brief defines which records it may access, which checks it should carry out and the limits on its scoring.
Agents prepare the assessment and monitor risk within those boundaries. When a finding needs a buyer’s judgement, it is routed to the responsible person with its supporting sources.
How the work comes together
From the first signal to the next decisionThe starting point
Agreed supplier review criteria
Within agreed rules
Permitted records checked
Within agreed rules
Assessment & risk findings prepared
Business Authority
Important findings sent to a buyer
The result
Sources retained for later review
People & decisions
Bring the important finding to the buyer.
Strategic supplier choices and high-risk findings remain with people. The agent’s role is to make the review easier to work through: what was found, which criteria were applied and what information supports it.
Records behind the decisions, along with changes in agent behaviour, support later review. The business has a way to examine the work as well as the recommendation.
Achieved value · external benchmark
Less evidence chasing. More time on the supplier decision.
Prepare a consistent supplier assessment, attach the evidence and route material risks to the buyer responsible. Keep changing risks connected to the next action, so the review leads to a decision rather than another round of information gathering.
Lio · Tier-1 global manufacturer customer story
99.6%requisition-review automation after 12 months
Lio reports 99.6% automation of requisition review after 12 months at a global industrial manufacturer. That published result concerns requisition checks and approvals, a related procurement workflow rather than the supplier-risk assessment described here.
Your value case
Make the improvement measurable.
Assessment effort
Buyer hours spent collecting and checking the evidence for one supplier assessment.
Risk response
Elapsed time from a material risk signal to acknowledgement by the responsible buyer.
Action coverage
Share of material findings with evidence, a named owner and a recorded next action.