Checked at onboarding
tells you very little later
A supplier who was clear when you approved them can appear on a list eighteen months afterwards, and nothing will tell you unless something is still looking. Screening here runs on a cycle rather than as a one time gate.
The gap between approved and today
The risk you screened for at onboarding is not the risk you carry now. Everything that has happened since is the part nobody is looking at.
Later listings are still caught
A supplier appearing on a list months after approval is picked up on the next cycle rather than at the point somebody happens to look.
False positives stop costing days
Name similarity is common and genuine matches are rare. Showing both records side by side turns a week of email into a comparison and a click.
The decision is recorded either way
Dismissing a finding is itself evidence. Who decided, when, and on what basis is kept, so the dismissal can be explained later.
And where the exposure actually sits
Most teams screen properly at onboarding. Very few screen after it.
Once, at the gate
The supplier is checked before approval and never again, so the record says clear indefinitely regardless of what has happened since.
On a continuing cycle
Suppliers are re-screened as lists update, so the position is current rather than historical.
Escalate and wait
A possible match becomes a ticket, then an email thread, then a delay, largely because nobody can see the evidence quickly.
Compare and decide
Your supplier's details are shown against the list record, so the difference is usually obvious within a minute.
The tool
An automatic block on a name similarity is how a legitimate supplier gets stuck and how nobody trusts the screening.
A person, with evidence
Nothing is concluded automatically. The finding is presented, the evidence shown, and a named person decides.
A cleared flag
The finding disappears once resolved, so nothing shows that it was ever raised or why it was dismissed.
Kept with its reasoning
The finding, the comparison and the decision are retained, so the dismissal is as evidenced as a block would be.
Moments a procurement team will recognise
A supplier appears on a list post approval
Caught on the next cycle rather than discovered by somebody outside your team.
Learn moreA common company name flags repeatedly
Compared against your own record once and dismissed, with the reasoning kept.
Learn moreSomebody asks what you screen against
Answered by naming the lists rather than describing a proprietary process.
Learn moreA list updates overnight
Re-run automatically, with anything relevant waiting for you in the morning.
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