Achilles Risk Screening Components

Achilles Financial Risk provides insight into the financial stability and creditworthiness of suppliers, helping organisations understand which suppliers may be more vulnerable to economic pressures, market volatility or operational challenges.

Buyers can use these insights to:

• Identify suppliers that may require closer monitoring
• Support supplier onboarding and qualification decisions
• Strengthen supply chain resilience
• Reduce exposure to supplier failure
• Prioritise due diligence activities
• Gain visibility into supplier financial performance

Supplier profiles include a Financial Risk Score alongside supporting financial information where available.

Depending on the country and availability of company financial records, buyers may also be able to access insights such as:

• Revenue and turnover
• Financial performance trends
• Credit-related indicators
• Company financial filings
• Other financial health metrics

This information helps organisations understand not only the level of risk, but the factors contributing to it.

Global coverage with local intelligence

Financial data availability varies by country, reflecting differences in regulatory requirements, corporate transparency and public reporting standards.

Achilles combines multiple trusted financial intelligence sources to provide the broadest possible coverage across global supply chains, helping organisations maintain visibility across both domestic and international supplier populations.

Where comprehensive financial records are available, buyers can access detailed financial performance information. In regions where corporate financial disclosure is more limited, Achilles still provides a Financial Risk Score to support supplier risk decisions.

Achilles Cyber Risk helps organisations gain visibility into suppliers’ cyber vulnerabilities and risk exposure, enabling earlier identification of what can be existential risks for companies.

See cyber risk before it becomes a supply chain issue

Cyber Risk provides an independent assessment of a supplier’s vulnerabilities and risk exposure, helping organisations understand which suppliers may require additional scrutiny or engagement.
The score is continuously monitored and updated using analysis of the supplier’s systems and live cyber threat intelligence, providing an up-to-date view of your supply chain risks.

Monitor both threats and vulnerabilities

Cyber Risk considers a range of factors that influence a supplier’s overall cyber exposure.

Threat indicators assess the external risks facing a supplier, including:

• Threat activity targeting the supplier’s industry
• Emerging threats affecting technologies used by the supplier
• Known adversary activity and exploitation trends
• Regional cyber threat risks
• Dark web intelligence and exposure indicators

Vulnerability indicators assess weaknesses that could increase the likelihood of a cyber incident, including:

• Security of internet-facing systems
• Email security controls
• Exposed credentials and compromised accounts
• Cyber hygiene practices
  Known unpatched vulnerabilities

Together, these insights provide a more complete view of supplier cyber risk than traditional questionnaires alone.

Support risk-based supplier assurance

Cyber Risk helps organisations:

• Identify suppliers that may require further cyber due diligence
• Prioritise remediation and engagement efforts
• Monitor risk across large supplier populations
• Strengthen third-party risk management programmes
• Improve supply chain resilience

By highlighting potential areas of concern early, organisations can focus their resources where cyber exposure is greatest.

Powered by specialist cyber intelligence

Achilles Cyber Risk is powered by Orpheus, a specialist provider of cyber and geopolitical risk intelligence.

The service continuously monitors a wide range of cyber threat and vulnerability indicators, ensuring buyers have access to current intelligence rather than point-in-time assessments.

Achilles Location Risk helps organisations understand the geographic risks that sit behind their supplier ecosystem, providing greater visibility into the external factors that can disrupt operations, impact ESG performance or create reputational exposure.

A broader view of supply chain risk

Our Location Risk Score evaluates the risk profile of specific countries and regions across four key areas:

• Environmental risks, including climate and natural hazard exposure
• Social risks, including labour rights and modern slavery concerns
• Governance risks, such as corruption and regulatory stability
• Financial risks affecting economic and commercial resilience

Together, these factors provide valuable context for supplier risk assessments and complement the Achilles Sustainability Score.

See where risk exists

Location Risk gives buyers visibility into the locations associated with a supplier, helping identify risk exposure across trading locations, operational sites and wider corporate structures.

For suppliers that are fully onboarded with Achilles, assessments can extend across multiple locations, including:

• Registered offices
• Trading locations
• Manufacturing facilities
• Warehouses and distribution centres
• Parent company locations

This creates a more complete picture of geographic risk across the supplier’s operating footprint.

Make better risk decisions

Geographic risk can have a direct impact on supply chain performance and resilience. Higher-risk locations may increase the likelihood of:

• Supply disruption
• Payment delays
• Regulatory challenges
• ESG non-compliance
• Reputational damage

By understanding the location-based risks affecting suppliers, organisations can prioritise engagement, strengthen due diligence and make more informed sourcing decisions.

Built on trusted global data

Location Risk Scores are generated using a range of internationally recognised data sources, including leading institutions, NGOs and risk indexes. These insights are combined through Achilles’ proprietary methodology to provide a consistent and actionable view of geographic risk.

Achilles Watchlist, Sanctions & Ownership Risk provides ongoing screening of supplier ownership and control structures, helping organisations identify potential compliance concerns early.

Know who is behind your suppliers

The service identifies key individuals and entities connected to a supplier, including:

• Company directors
• Shareholders
• Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
• Parent and controlling entities

This provides greater transparency into supplier ownership structures and helps organisations understand who they are ultimately doing business with.

Screen for sanctions and compliance exposure

Supplier-related individuals and entities are screened against a comprehensive set of global watchlists and compliance databases, including:

• International sanctions lists
• Politically Exposed Persons (PEPs)
• Regulatory and law enforcement watchlists
• State-owned enterprise records

This helps buyers identify potential risks that may warrant further investigation or escalation.

Continuously monitored intelligence

Watchlist and ownership data is monitored on an ongoing basis, ensuring organisations can identify changes that may affect supplier risk profiles.

As new sanctions, ownership changes or compliance issues emerge, buyers gain visibility into developments that could impact supplier relationships and third-party risk exposure.

Strengthen due diligence and regulatory compliance

Organisations can use these insights to:

• Enhance third-party due diligence processes
• Support anti-bribery and anti-corruption programmes
• Identify sanctions-related risks
• Meet regulatory and compliance obligations
• Reduce reputational and legal exposure

By providing greater visibility into supplier ownership and compliance risks, organisations can make more informed onboarding, sourcing and supplier management decisions.

Enhanced assurance through Achilles validation

Supplier watchlist and ownership intelligence is supported by independent validation from Achilles specialists, providing an additional layer of review and quality assurance.

This helps organisations increase confidence in supplier risk assessments and focus attention on the findings that matter most.

Achilles Adverse Media Risk helps organisations identify potential reputational and compliance concerns by monitoring global media and intelligence sources for negative reporting linked to suppliers and the individuals behind them.

Look beyond the organisation

Adverse Media Risk screens not only the supplier company itself, but also the key individuals and entities associated with it, including:

• Directors
• Shareholders
• Ultimate Beneficial Owners (UBOs)
• Parent companies and controlling entities

This broader approach helps uncover risks that may not be visible when reviewing a company in isolation.

Monitor potential warning signs

The service screens against a vast global database of adverse media and risk intelligence sources, helping organisations identify reports linked to issues such as:

• Fraud and financial crime
• Corruption and bribery
• Money laundering
• Sanctions breaches
• Regulatory investigations
• Human rights concerns
• Environmental incidents
• Other serious compliance and reputational risks

These insights provide an additional layer of intelligence to support supplier due diligence and risk management.

Stay informed as risks emerge

Adverse media intelligence is continuously monitored, helping organisations identify emerging concerns that could affect supplier relationships.

Rather than relying solely on periodic reviews, buyers can gain greater visibility into developing risks and take action where additional investigation may be required.

Strengthen third-party due diligence

Adverse Media Risk helps organisations:

• Identify potential reputational risks
• Support supplier onboarding decisions
• Enhance compliance and integrity programmes
• Strengthen third-party due diligence processes
• Improve visibility across large supplier populations

By combining adverse media monitoring with sanctions, ownership and ESG intelligence, buyers can develop a more comprehensive understanding of supplier risk.