Risk Data That Never Reaches The Right Supplier
Risk ratings, sanctions lists and sustainability scores arrive under each provider’s own version of a company name. When they don’t join to your supplier records, the warning exists but nobody sees it.
The adverse rating sits on a record nobody buys from, while orders flow to the supplier it describes.
External Data Speaks A Different Name
Supplier risk programs combine your own supplier records with outside data: credit and financial risk ratings, sanctions and watchlists, certifications, sustainability and emissions data. Each source names companies its own way, with legal suffixes, abbreviations and old names.
Exact joins miss most of them. Teams fall back on manual lookups for the top suppliers and accept gaps everywhere else, which is exactly where unmanaged risk tends to be. When a supplier has several internal records, a rating may land on one of them while orders go through another.
Reporting suffers too. Sustainability disclosures need supplier-level data across the whole base, and every unmatched supplier is a gap that has to be estimated or explained.
Missed Warnings
Adverse ratings or list hits never reach the supplier record buyers use.
Manual Lookups
Analysts match the top suppliers by hand and leave the long tail unchecked.
Incomplete Reporting
Sustainability and risk reports have gaps wherever names did not match.
Resolve Suppliers, Then Join The Data
Resolve your own supplier records into one entity per real company first. Then match each external source to those resolved suppliers, using names, addresses and registration numbers together, so every rating, list entry and score attaches to the right company.
Run it continuously. Outside data changes daily and suppliers change names and ownership, so matching has to keep up instead of being refreshed once a year.
The risk rating and ESG score now sit on the supplier you actually pay.
Resolved Suppliers First
Your own duplicates are merged before outside data is attached.
Name-Tolerant Joins
External records match even when names, suffixes and formats differ.
Kept Current
New ratings, list updates and supplier changes are matched as they arrive.
The Identity Layer Under Supply Chain
Zingg runs as a workload inside your data platform and gives every entity one persistent ZINGG_ID. Everything above it reads the same resolved entities.
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How Zingg Connects Risk Data
Company Name Matching
Built-in dictionaries handle abbreviations and legal suffixes across sources. Company name matching
Registration Numbers Plus Names
Deterministic rules on registration or tax numbers combine with learned matching where numbers are missing.
Explain Every Match
Reviewers see the evidence behind each link before acting on a risk flag. Explainability
Your Data, Your Platform
Risk data and supplier data are matched inside your own data platform.
Supplier Risk & ESG Questions
Does Zingg provide risk, sanctions or ESG data?
No. Zingg resolves suppliers and matches them to the risk, sanctions and sustainability data you already license or collect.
Why do exact joins fail on external data?
Providers name companies differently: legal suffixes, abbreviations, transliterations and former names. An exact join only matches when every character agrees.
Can reviewers see why a supplier was matched to a rating?
Yes. Zingg Enterprise shows the evidence behind each match, so reviewers can check it before acting.
Does this help with sustainability reporting?
It closes the matching gap. More of your suppliers link to the emissions and certification data you have, so fewer values have to be estimated.
Put Risk Data On The Right Supplier
Resolve suppliers and join outside data in your own data platform.