Achilles is a global supplier risk intelligence and engagement platform that helps organisations make confident decisions about suppliers and third parties, while also working directly with suppliers to improve performance over time. Through verified data, structured assessments, continuous monitoring, and active supplier engagement, we help strengthen compliance, capability, and resilience across global supply chains — delivered through a connected network.
Achilles was established in Norway in 1990, and our origins continue to influence how we operate today. Rooted in the values of Scandinavian society, our approach is shaped by Janteloven — the idea that the needs of the collective outweigh those of the individual. This principle sits at the heart of the Achilles model: collaborative, transparent, and designed for shared value creation.
Originally created to help Norway’s offshore oil and gas industry meet health and safety requirements more efficiently, Achilles introduced a network-based model that enabled buyers and suppliers to work from a shared set of standards and assessments. This reduced duplication, improved consistency of supplier data, and created a more reliable foundation not only for decision-making, but also for supplier development and improvement.
Today, that same principle underpins a global platform. From 23 locations worldwide, we support organisations across industries with supplier risk, compliance, and performance management solutions that improve visibility, reduce operational friction, and strengthen resilience. Whether through shared buyer networks or tailored enterprise programmes, we help organisations improve supplier assurance, support supplier development, meet regulatory expectations, and make better-informed decisions across their supply chains.
In recent years, Achilles has expanded its capabilities through the integration of three specialist supply chain risk and data companies — GoSupply, GRMS, and InfoControl — into a single global platform.
Together, these capabilities have strengthened Achilles as a unified platform for supplier intelligence and engagement — combining network data, structured assessments, and continuous monitoring with tools that help suppliers improve over time.
Our platform is designed to give organisations a clear, structured, and continuously updated view of supplier risk across multiple dimensions, while also identifying where suppliers can improve and supporting progress over time, including:
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At the core of Achilles is a shared intelligence and engagement network. By standardising supplier qualification and assessment at an industry level, we create a system where supplier data is continuously validated, reused, and improved over time — and where suppliers are supported to raise standards, close gaps, and strengthen performance.
Buyers reduce duplication in supplier due diligence, while suppliers benefit from a single set of assessments that can be shared across multiple customers, along with clear feedback and improvement pathways. This improves efficiency, but more importantly, it improves the quality, consistency, and comparability of supplier data across the network.
As participation grows, the network becomes more powerful: increasing data depth, improving risk visibility, and strengthening the ability to identify issues earlier. Importantly, it also creates a structured mechanism for supplier improvement — helping organisations not only identify risk, but actively reduce it at source through engagement and corrective action.
For organisations that require a higher degree of customisation, Achilles also provides private enterprise networks. These combine the benefits of the global Achilles ecosystem with tailored risk criteria, bespoke assessments, and exclusive visibility where required.
Our purpose and culture guide how we operate and how we support our customers and suppliers every day.
Achilles exists to help organisations manage supplier and third-party risk with confidence, while also enabling suppliers to improve their performance over time. We support customers in meeting regulatory and contractual obligations, improving supply chain visibility, and strengthening resilience through reliable supplier intelligence and structured engagement.
We work with leading organisations across financial, industrial, commercial, and public sectors that require robust, auditable supplier information to support risk management, compliance, and operational decision-making — and who are committed to raising standards across their supply base.
By improving the quality and transparency of supplier data and actively supporting supplier development, we help reduce uncertainty, improve performance, and strengthen supply chains over time.
Our values are the principles that guide how we work together and how we support our customers and suppliers. They shape our culture and how we deliver impact every day.
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