Supplier risk management
Identify risks in your supply chain and reliably meet compliance requirements.


Risks from the supply chain must be managed transparently and controllably. This results from NIS-2, the Supply Chain Due Diligence Act and other compliance requirements. HITGuard helps you to recognize these, evaluate them and consequently reduce them.
Highlights
- Management of suppliers and your contact persons
- Use of freely configurable questionnaires for supplier evaluation
- Workflow-controlled response to surveys via a secure supplier evaluation portal
- Visualized evaluation of the risks to your company
- Treatment and reduction of risks via workflow-supported task packages
Supplier management
Manage your suppliers easily and clearly with all the key data you need to evaluate and contact them.
- Management of suppliers with key data, such as categorizations and non-system metrics
- Management of contact persons for suppliers
- Control of the validity of suppliers and user accounts
- Secure login procedures for supplier access
Supplier questionnaires
A knowledge database contains test questions on various topics based on standards, norms and/or expert knowledge. Using the question catalogs included, you can identify relevant deviations from the state of the art and thus potential weaknesses relating to your suppliers.
- Provide documented evidence of compliance with external and internal requirements.
- Gain transparency in the progress of your suppliers through historicized and repeatable answers to inspection questions.
- Report on the fulfillment of your requirements using configurable dashboards.
- Share your insights with customized variance analysis reports.
Supplier evaluation portal
Invite your suppliers to register securely and easily on the supplier evaluation portal, answer questions there and simply return them.
- Login procedure with multifactor authentication
- First response or assisted update of responses
- Email notifications and reminders before the response deadline
- Secure uploads of documents as evidence
Graphically supported risk analysis
Risks are determined from the non-conformities of suppliers and their need for protection based on the services supplied and provided. The effects can be visualized.
- Determination of the supplier's protection requirements
- Simple derivation of risks
- Visualization in a graphically prepared structural analysis
Supplier development
Develop your supplier so that he can meet your own requirements.
- Deriving measures from non-conformities of the supplier
- Implementation of measures with an impact on the risk assessment
- Demonstrable, historically evaluable development of the liquidity risk
Our software offers you an intuitive platform that has been specially developed for risk managers.
With the following functions, we support you in assessing and managing risks in your supply chain:
Supplier portal: Manage checks and self-assessments centrally. Suppliers can view tasks directly in the portal, answer them and send them back to you - with clear status markings and deadline warnings.
User-friendliness: Thanks to our wizard, self-assessments can be carried out step by step and saved at any time.
Reliable notification system: Automatic reminders ensure that no deadline is missed - both for suppliers and internal teams.
Flexible user and rights management: Create users for your suppliers and assign them specific rights, for example as administrators in the supplier portal.
Comprehensive control options: Flexibly adjust the access options and status of suppliers, for example by activating, deactivating or time-limited authorizations.
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