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In today's world, your organization probably collaborates with third-party suppliers, vendors, and partners from multiple geographies, each with its own laws and business practices. Every third-party relationship introduces risks. Some risks, like data breaches or bankruptcies, are obvious. Others, like negative press or questionable business dealings, may not be as clear. Since a supplier’s reputation can quickly become your company’s reputation too, it’s essential to monitor third parties for reputational risk that could impact your firm’s bottom line.
Reputational risks encompass threats to the name, goodwill, or credibility of a business that can ultimately affect its revenue. While reputational risk is difficult to quantify and comes in many forms – whether self-inflicted or from third-party business associations – it can spark business disruptions that are equally as severe as more tangible risks. This post focuses on third-party supplier or vendor reputational risks.
Supplier reputational risks include:
Negative news or adverse media coverage, including everything from unethical hiring practices and product quality issues, to criminal activities and environmental disasters.
6 Strategies to Reduce Supplier Reputational Risk
Discover which reputational risks to watch out for, what penalties to avoid, and how to automate and simplify your reputational risk management initiatives.
Unchecked supplier reputational risk can result in loss of customers, revenue, shareholder value, and goodwill. So how do organizations improve visibility into potentially damaging supplier reputational risk?
Consider leveraging these six strategies:
It’s clear that assessing and monitoring for supplier reputational risk can’t be done using spreadsheets or by scanning dozens of disparate intelligence sources. Instead, organizations should look for solutions that normalize, correlate, and analyze information from across multiple sources to enable actionable reporting and remediation.
Download the white paper, 6 Strategies for Reducing Supplier Reputational Risk, which expands on the types of reputational risks to watch out for, what penalties to expect, and important capabilities to look for in a solution to automate and simplify reputational risk management.
For more on how Prevalent can help you simplify your third-party risk management program, request a demo today.
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