Top 10: Screening Tools in Procurement

Screening tools have become indispensable to modern procurement, giving CPOs and their teams the visibility needed before a supplier signs a contract. 

As global supply chains grow more complex and interdependent, businesses face mounting exposure to financial instability, regulatory breaches, cyber vulnerabilities, environmental harm and human rights abuses buried deep within their supplier networks. 

Screening platforms use AI, machine learning and vast proprietary databases to vet, rate and continuously monitor suppliers against these risks, replacing slow manual due diligence with real-time, data-driven insight.

The following Top 10 showcases the platforms helping procurement teams screen suppliers on financial health, sustainability, compliance and operational resilience, so they can build supply chains that are transparent, ethical and built to withstand disruption.

10. Veridion

• CEO: Florin Tufan
• Founded: 2019
• Employees: ~55

Veridion is an AI-driven data platform that supercharges supplier discovery and screening by replacing manual, error-prone searches with a machine-learning-powered universe of company data. 

Covering more than 120 million businesses across 241 countries, Veridion is particularly strong in markets such as Asia and the Middle East.

Its API-first architecture delivers continuously refreshed, product-level insights and ESG data, updated weekly, enabling procurement teams to screen and shortlist high-quality suppliers in seconds. 

By automating research that traditionally consumed dozens of hours per sourcing event, Veridion helps eliminate maverick spend and strengthens data accuracy in supplier master records. 

9. Supplier.io

• CEO: Neeraj Shah
• Founded: 2001
• Employees: ~140

Supplier.io is a leading provider of supplier intelligence for organisations building inclusive, resilient supply chains. 

Founded in 2001 by Neeraj Shah, the company combines a comprehensive supplier database with advanced analytics to help enterprises screen, validate and track diverse and small business suppliers. 

Its tools support data enrichment, spend reporting and economic impact assessment, allowing procurement and supplier diversity teams to measure the real-world outcomes of their sourcing decisions. 

Supplier.io's research consistently highlights the scale of impact achievable through inclusive procurement, with reports showing billions of dollars in economic activity generated through diverse spend. 

8. RapidRatings

• CEO: Charlie Minutella
• Founded: 2007
• Employees: ~180

RapidRatings specialises in financial health screening, using its proprietary Financial Health Rating (FHR) to quantitatively analyse suppliers' financial statements and flag risk before it becomes disruption. 

Each rated company is assessed against 73 ratios weighted by their historical predictive power, giving procurement teams a forward-looking view that goes beyond the backwards-looking payment data many still rely on. 

RapidRatings Core Health Score evaluates efficiency, sustainability and competitiveness to produce an overall resilience rating, helping businesses decide whether a supplier is a viable long-term partner. 

7. Zip

• CEO: Rujul Zaparde
• Founded: 2020
• Employees: 300+

Zip is an AI-powered procurement orchestration platform founded in 2020 by Rujul Zaparde, Lu Cheng and Felix Meng. 

While best known for intake-to-pay, Zip has become an increasingly important part of the screening conversation, using AI agents to assess suppliers against contractual, regulatory and risk criteria as part of its orchestration layer. 

Its agents can review a specific clause against a regulation, flag a supplier issue, or trigger a workflow to amend contracts automatically. 

Zip's 2026 roadmap moves this further into proactive risk sensing, allowing procurement teams to detect risk events as they happen and deploy the right digital workforce in response. 

6. Achilles

• CEO: Sebastien Roussotte
• Founded: 1990
• Employees: ~300

Achilles has spent more than three decades building one of the world's largest supplier pre-qualification networks, screening suppliers across industrial, infrastructure, energy and natural resources sectors.

 Its network of more than 230,000 pre-qualified suppliers allows procurement teams to skip lengthy onboarding processes in favour of a control-tower view across divisions and geographies. 

Achilles combines rigorous audits with AchillesAI, its automation layer, to accelerate supplier qualification and improve efficiency by up to 70%. Beyond pre-qualification, Achilles screens for labour and human rights risks, governance standards and ESG performance, giving CSOs and procurement leaders a single, trusted source of due diligence. 

5. Moody's Orbis

• CEO: Rob Fauber (Moody's Corporation)
• Founded: 1909 (Moody's); Orbis dates to Bureau van Dijk, founded 1991
• Employees: ~16,076 (Moody's Corporation)

Orbis, Moody's flagship company database, is one of the most powerful comparable data resources for screening private and listed companies. Originally built by Bureau van Dijk before its 2017 acquisition by Moody's, Orbis now covers information on more than 625 million companies, offering financial strength indicators, ownership structures, sanctions data and politically exposed persons screening in one platform. 

Procurement teams use Orbis to run fast company checks, in-depth credit assessments and ongoing risk monitoring, integrating its award-winning data into broader anti-financial crime and third-party due diligence workflows. 

Its Cyber Risk Ratings, powered by Bitsight, add another layer of screening for cybersecurity exposure among key suppliers.

4. Interos

• CEO: Theodore Krantz
• Founded: 2005
• Employees: ~150

Interos operates what it calls the industry's first automated supplier resilience platform, using AI to continuously map and monitor more than 250 million companies and billions of B2B relationships. 

Founded in 2005 by Jennifer Bisceglie, Interos screens suppliers across cyber, financial, ESG, geopolitical and catastrophic risk categories, giving procurement and risk leaders a multi-dimensional view long before problems surface. 

Its Knowledge Graph is one of the world's largest databases of B2B relationships, allowing organisations to pre-screen suppliers during onboarding, compare shortlisted candidates and continuously monitor existing relationships for emerging risk. 

Interos' newer itracing capability takes screening a step further, connecting supplier disruptions directly to specific products and revenue exposure. 

3. Prewave

• CEO: Harald Nitschinger
• Founded: 2017
• Employees: ~200

Prewave is an AI-driven supply chain risk intelligence platform, founded in Vienna in 2017 by Harald Nitschinger and Lisa Smith, that screens suppliers across more than 200 risk categories in over 50 languages. 

By scraping publicly available media, from news reports to social media, Prewave's AI condenses millions of daily risk signals into focused alerts, screening for labour strikes, environmental incidents, financial distress and regulatory breaches. 

Its proprietary Tier-N Transparency technology maps supply chains from direct suppliers down to raw materials, giving procurement teams visibility deep into their extended networks. 

With rigorous alignment to regulations including the German Supply Chain Act, UFLPA and CSDDD, Prewave has positioned itself as a leader in compliance-driven supplier screening.

2. Dun & Bradstreet

• CEO: Stephen Tulenko
• Founded: 1841
• Employees: ~6,247

Dun & Bradstreet is one of the longest-established names in business screening, tracing its roots back to 1841. 

Its Data Cloud underpins a suite of solutions used to screen suppliers, customers and third parties on creditworthiness, financial stability and compliance risk, drawing on one of the world's largest commercial data sets.

Procurement teams rely on Dun & Bradstreet for due diligence during onboarding, ongoing monitoring of counterparty risk and insights that help mitigate exposure to fraud and financial distress across sprawling supplier bases. 

The company's D-U-N-S Number remains a globally recognised standard for identifying and verifying businesses, a foundational layer for any serious supplier screening programme. 

1. EcoVadis

• CEO: Pierre-François Thaler & Frédéric Trinel (Co-CEOs)
• Founded: 2007
• Employees: ~1,900+

Topping the list is EcoVadis, the global leader in business sustainability ratings, whose platform has become the default standard for screening suppliers on ESG performance. 

Founded in 2007 by Pierre-François Thaler and Frédéric Trinel, EcoVadis evaluates companies across environment, labour and human rights, ethics and sustainable procurement, drawing on more than 150,000 ratings collected since 2020 across 89,000 companies, 250 sectors and 150 countries. 

Its scorecards, benchmarks and carbon action tools give procurement teams an evidence-based way to screen suppliers before onboarding and monitor their sustainability progress over time.

EcoVadis has continued to expand its screening capabilities through partnerships, including a deeper integration with Ivalua's Risk Centre and its Worker Voice solution developed with Ulula, which surfaces labour condition risks that traditional audits miss.