Supplier Risk Red Flags

Twelve external warning signs that procurement teams can monitor before supplier issues become business issues.

A practical checklist of the public signals that reveal supplier distress early, and exactly where to find each one. No questionnaires, no supplier portals, no waiting on the supplier.

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Supplier Risk Red Flags

Twelve external warning signs, and where to find each one.

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Negative net assets and worsening accounts

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Phoenix and related-entity patterns

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Sanctions, integrity and adverse media

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Modern slavery and ESG indicators

What you'll learn

Six categories of external signal, with the public source for each. The same framework SupplierSense automates across an entire supply base.

Financial warning signs

Negative net assets, worsening accounts, overdue filings, new charges and CCJs. The financial signals that tend to move first.

Corporate governance risks

Phoenix patterns, disqualified directors, proposal-to-strike-off and frequent registered-office changes.

Sanctions and integrity checks

How to screen for sanctions and politically exposed connections, and what they mean in a procurement context.

Modern slavery indicators

Where labour and modern-slavery risk hides in soft-services supply chains, and how to check it properly.

Adverse media monitoring

Turning news signals into early warnings, and treating them as prompts to investigate rather than proof.

Companies House signals

Exactly which Companies House records to read, and how to read the trend rather than a single snapshot.

Why this guide matters

Most of what tells you a supplier is in trouble is already public. It sits in Companies House, the courts, sanctions lists and the open press. The information is rarely the hard part.

The hard part is finding it consistently, across every supplier, and noticing when it changes. A business you cleared in January is not the same business by the autumn. This guide shows you what to look for, and exactly where to find it.

About the guide

Written by procurement, for procurement

Written by Alexander Jaiyesimi (MCIPS, MSc), founder of SupplierSense, drawing on more than fourteen years in enterprise procurement across some of the UK's most demanding supply chains.

Foster + Partners

JLL

ENGIE

London Overground (TfL)

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