Compliance Management

Centralize Compliance Information. Reduce Friction.

Compliance information is requested throughout supplier onboarding, qualification, risk reviews, audits, and ongoing monitoring. Repetitive questionnaires, policy requests, document exchanges, and screening activities can create unnecessary work for both suppliers and buyers.

The SDS Compliance Management Module provides a centralized framework for managing, reviewing, and sharing compliance information, helping organizations improve transparency, reduce duplication, and support more consistent risk and compliance decisions.

One Compliance Profile. One Trusted Source.

Maintain compliance information in a structured, standardized format that can be easily managed, reviewed, and shared across your business network. Whether maintaining your organization’s compliance profile or evaluating the compliance posture of business partners, SDS provides a consistent approach to compliance information management.
Compliance Questionnaires
Policy Acknowledgments
Supporting Documentation
Regulatory Checks
Reputational Screening
Financial Reviews

Improve Compliance Visibility Across Business Relationships

A standardized compliance process helps organizations reduce duplicate requests, improve consistency, and maintain a clearer view of compliance status across business relationships.
Reduce Repetitive Requests
Minimize duplicate questionnaires, policies, and documentation requests.
Improve Transparency
Provide greater visibility into compliance status, documentation, and review outcomes.
Support Faster Onboarding
Help streamline qualification and compliance review processes.
Improve Data Quality
Maintain more consistent and accurate compliance information.
Centralize Evidence
Keep policies, attestations, and supporting documentation in one location.
Strengthen Risk Management
Support more informed supplier, regulatory, and financial risk assessments.

Manage Core Compliance Information

Questionnaires & Policies
  • Compliance Questionnaires
  • Code of Conduct Acknowledgments
  • Anti-Bribery & Anti-Corruption Policies
  • Conflict of Interest Disclosures
  • Human Rights Policies
  • Modern Slavery Statements
  • Data Privacy Policies
Reviews & Supporting Evidence
  • Regulatory Screening
  • Sanctions & Debarment Checks
  • Adverse Media & Reputational Reviews
  • Financial Reviews
  • Audit Reports
  • Corrective Action Documentation
  • Other Supporting Materials

Support Regulatory and Reputational Reviews

Compliance management extends beyond questionnaires. SDS can help organize the information and outcomes associated with regulatory, sanctions, debarment, reputational, and other due diligence checks.

Maintain Supporting Compliance Documentation

Supporting evidence is critical to effective compliance reviews. SDS provides a centralized location for maintaining documents and associating them with the appropriate compliance requirement.
Policies & Procedures
Attestations
Audit Reports
Financial Documentation
Corrective Action Plans
Regulatory Documentation

Connect Compliance Information to the Right Entity

Not all compliance information applies at the same organizational level. SDS allows compliance data to be associated with the appropriate entity, helping improve accuracy and providing a clearer view of where requirements and controls apply.

Support Compliance, Procurement, and Risk Management

Centralized compliance information supports a wide range of business processes and decision-making activities.

Why SDS Compliance Management?

Centralize Compliance Information
Maintain questionnaires, policies, screening results, reviews, and supporting documentation in one location.
Improve Transparency
Provide greater visibility into compliance status and supporting evidence.
Reduce Administrative Effort
Replace repetitive requests with a structured and reusable compliance profile.
Improve Data Quality
Maintain more accurate and consistent compliance information.
Support Better Risk Decisions
Give stakeholders the information needed to evaluate compliance and third-party risk more efficiently.

Build a More Complete Organizational Profile

Compliance information becomes even more valuable when connected with organizational hierarchy, certifications, ESG information, cybersecurity information, payment data, and health & safety performance.

By connecting these information areas through the SDS Supplier Information Network, organizations gain a more complete, accurate, and trusted view of their business relationships.