The interos.ai Vision: The System of Record for Supply Chain Risk Intelligence

Our inaugural Risk Intelligence Summit 2024: “Supply Chain is Risky Business” brought together thought leaders, innovators, and industry pioneers for an exclusive 1-day event discuss the evolving challenges and opportunities in supply chain management including executives from Nvidia, JPMorgan Chase, NASA, Bechtel, the US Navy, Accenture and more. 

This event highlighted the critical importance of supply chain risk intelligence and showcased transformative technologies to transform how enterprises mitigate, and even predict, risk in 2025 and beyond. 

interos.ai CEO, Ted Krantz, Delivers Keynote on Building the System of Record for Risk Intelligence 

interos.ai CEO Ted Krantz opened the summit with the gravity of risk management today: “Supply chains belong at the top of a CEO’s agenda. 

Supply chains pose a $3 trillion risk to the global economy with risks across the spectrum: cyber, ESG, catastrophic, financial, geopolitical and restrictions. 

Our mission is to be the system of record for supply chain risk intelligence.

Watch the full keynote here and learn about the next chapter of innovation at interos.ai:  

 

Our CEO’s keynote outlines where we are today and how we are building off our Resilience SaaS platform comprised of i-Score as the gold standard for quantifying risk, Watchtower for real-time alerts and continuous mapping and monitoring across the industry’s largest knowledge graph mapping 230+ million suppliers and 11+ billion relationships.  

interos.ai is revolutionizing the supply chain risk management lifecycle with AI and predictive analytics to help organizations mitigate rising risk. The next evolution of interos.ai will bring AI-powered predictive analytics to SCRM.  

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Live in the SAP Store: Interos and SAP Ariba Partner to Transform Procurement with Real-Time Risk Intelligence

Supply chain disruptions cost the global economy $3 trillion annually. As procurement teams navigate through sanctions, reshoring mandates, and escalating cyber threats, the need for real-time supplier intelligence has never been more critical. Yet the reality is stark: fewer than 5% of leaders continuously monitor their supply chain networks. 

From geopolitical tensions to financial crises, natural disasters to cyberattacks, organizations must now contend with a myriad of risks that threaten to disrupt procurement and supplier relationships.  

And the complexity of managing these risks has only intensified as businesses expand their supplier networks exponentially. The average S&P 500 organization manages relationships with 1,700 direct suppliers and 1.5 million suppliers through their first three tiers, and often lacks full visibility beyond the first tier of their supply chain. 

Enter risk-resilient procurement: an approach that integrates dynamic risk insights into every stage of the procurement process down to the nth tier. The goal is not just to mitigate risks, but to create a procurement system that can thrive despite uncertainties.  

We’re excited to announce the Interos + SAP Ariba Supplier Risk partnership, a game-changing collaboration that empowers organizations to proactively manage risks, streamline their procurement workflows, and strengthen the resilience of their supply chains. 

The New Era of Global Supply Chain Management 

Recent global events have exposed the vulnerabilities lurking within traditional supply chain models.  

Companies that built their supplier networks around just-in-time delivery and lowest-cost sourcing are now scrambling to address concentrated supplier risk, particularly in regions affected by trade restrictions and geopolitical tensions. These risks are no longer hypothetical—they’re here, happening in real-time, and affecting businesses at every level. 

Consider the ripple effects of a single supplier’s bankruptcy or a sudden geopolitical conflict.  

Without real-time data and multi-tier visibility, organizations find themselves blindsided by disruptions, struggling to react in time to avoid costly consequences. This year alone, the Interos platform has tracked over 8,400 catastrophic events affecting 82 million distinct companies.  

Procurement teams need more than just basic supplier information. They need actionable insights that allow them to identify risks, mitigate disruptions, and make informed decisions before problems arise. 

This is where Interos and SAP Ariba Supplier Risk come in. 

Solving Procurement’s Most Pressing Challenges 

Procurement teams face complex challenges when it comes to managing supplier risk. With 90% of organizations lacking awareness of sub-tier supplier disruptions and less than 56% of critical suppliers being assessed for vulnerabilities, traditional quarterly assessments, point-in-time surveys, and fragmented data collection leave dangerous blind spots. 

With minimal visibility into the lower tiers of their supply chain, they often miss critical risk indicators until it’s too late. 

The Interos + SAP Ariba integration offers a revolutionary solution to these challenges. By embedding Interos’ deep supplier-buyer relationship connections and comprehensive risk insights directly into SAP Ariba Supplier Risk’s procurement workflows, procurement teams can access real-time risk intelligence that spans financial, geopolitical, cyber, catastrophic, restrictions and ESG risks.  

This partnership transforms risk management from a reactive process into a strategic, proactive approach. 

“With our new partnership with SAP Ariba, we are stepping up innovation to arm organizations with ground-breaking capabilities to navigate continued macroeconomic volatility.” – Yardley Pohl, Chief Product and Technology Officer, interos.ai  

With Interos integrated into SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, procurement professionals can now: 

  • See the full risk landscape: Access detailed, real-time insights on supplier risk across six key factors—financial, cyber, ESG, geopolitical, catastrophic, and regulatory risks—giving a holistic view of supplier vulnerabilities. 
  • Act on Day Zero alerts: Stay ahead of potential disruptions with actionable risk data delivered right when you need it. No more reacting to risks when it’s already too late—our data allows you to address issues before they impact your supply chain. 
  • Transform procurement strategies: Interos and SAP Ariba together offer a powerful toolkit for making smarter, risk-aware procurement decisions, whether it’s choosing suppliers, managing onboarding, or overseeing purchasing activities. 

“With the integration of Interos’ risk intelligence into SAP Ariba Supplier Risk, customers can get even deeper in the risk of the supplier and supply chain, significantly enhancing the capability to navigate risks in real-time across multiple dimensions. This partnership delivers a strategic advantage for our customers, empowering them to make confident, risk-aware decisions throughout the source to pay lifecycle.” – Matt Montgomery, Senior Director – Product Marketing – SAP Intelligent Spend & Business Network 

How It Works: Building Resilience Across the Procurement Lifecycle 

The power of this partnership lies in its seamless integration across the entire procurement lifecycle:

  • Sourcing: Procurement teams can now pre-screen suppliers based on multi-tier risk scores, ensuring that risky suppliers are flagged early in the process. This accelerates supplier evaluation, making it easier to shortlist reliable candidates while avoiding those that pose a threat. 
  • Onboarding: As new suppliers are onboarded, risk intelligence is integrated into the due diligence process, enabling companies to vet suppliers thoroughly. Teams can now assess sub-tier risks, ensuring a more comprehensive view of potential vulnerabilities. 
  • Purchasing: Real-time risk data is embedded into purchase orders, empowering procurement teams to make faster, more informed decisions. Whether evaluating a supplier’s ESG score or identifying geopolitical risks, purchasing decisions are now backed by deep insights. 
  • Supplier Management: Continuous monitoring means that procurement teams no longer rely on periodic reviews. Instead, they receive Day Zero alerts that notify them of critical changes in supplier risk, enabling swift action to mitigate disruptions. 

This integration ensures procurement teams are not only faster in their decision-making but also more strategic, reducing the likelihood of disruptions, cost overruns, and compliance challenges. 

Future-Proof Your Procurement Strategy 

Risk-resilient procurement is no longer a luxury—it’s a necessity. This partnership is not just about technology, it’s about empowering procurement teams to stay ahead of potential disruptions, reduce costs associated with unexpected events, and maintain compliance with regulatory standards, all where you are already managing your suppliers. 

Learn more about how this partnership can help your organization move forward with confidence.  

Together, Interos and SAP Ariba are redefining procurement, making it more resilient, agile, and future proof. Welcome to the next era of risk-resilient procurement. 

Schedule a demo today and experience the power of proactive risk management for your procurement operations. 

New Product Alert – Introducing Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends

Point-in-time supply chain risk assessments paint an incomplete picture.  

Organizations need more than isolated snapshots-they need historical context, industry benchmarks, and the ability to spot emerging patterns before they become critical issues. 

Today, interos.ai is proud to announce two new solutions, Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends, designed to provide the context you need to not just react but lead in your due diligence and risk management.   

These innovations transform how you will analyze, assess, monitor, and mitigate supply chain risks by providing the crucial context needed for strategic decision-making.  

Together, they represent the first industry-wide solution that delivers advanced insights tailored to your supply chain’s unique story because making the right decisions requires more than just data. It requires seeing the story behind it. 

The Power of Context in Risk Management 

Traditional risk assessment methods leave critical questions unanswered. The truth is data without context leads to more questions than answers.  

You might know a supplier’s risk score dropped last quarter, but what does that mean compared to others in your industry? Did all suppliers drop, or did you do (or do business with) something risky? Did you let in a trojan horse?   

A supplier might be flagged for financial instability: 

  • But how critical is their risk compared to the market at large?  
  • Should you find an alternative supplier?  
  • Or is it a contained risk and you should prioritize your attention on higher risk suppliers?  

A supplier’s ‘high risk’ status alone doesn’t tell you if they’re underperforming compared to industry peers or simply operating within expected parameters for their sector.  

Without proper context, organizations struggle to prioritize their response and allocate resources effectively.  

This inability to properly prioritize and allocate resources can lead to costly overreactions to routine industry fluctuations while truly critical vulnerabilities go unaddressed, potentially resulting in severe supply chain disruptions, compliance violations, and lasting damage to stakeholder confidence. 

Without context, you’re stuck reacting to noise instead of solving real problems. 

Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends: Turn Risk into your Competitive Advantage  

Our new solutions don’t just provide data they provide the context needed to make strategic decisions, differentiate between routine fluctuations and emerging threats, and demonstrate supply chain resilience to stakeholders with confidence. 

By leveraging our proprietary AI, Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends offer insights that help you understand where you stand, what’s shifting, and where to act. 

Industry Benchmarking: Built on our revolutionary Industry Categories system – an AI-powered classification that simplifies NAICS and SIC codes into plain-language and intuitive categories – Industry Benchmarking delivers unprecedented comparative insights: 

  • Compare your supplier risks scores against industry peers across Cyber, ESG, and Finance dimensions 
  • Focus on the biggest risks, save time and resources by identifying which suppliers need attention first 
  • Hold suppliers accountable and drive meaningful improvements: 
  • highlight where suppliers are lagging  
  • provide insights for negotiations 
  • Demonstrate supply chain resilience to stakeholders with concrete evidence of performance compared against your industry 

Industsry Benchmarking

Risk Trends: See what’s changing. Risk Trends provides the historical context needed to understand how risks evolve over time. 

  • Uncover patterns and predict vulnerabilities with 12 months of historical data on Cyber, Catastrophic, and ESG risks 
  • Pinpoint critical risks faster with daily, monthly or quarterly trends with customizable time frames and the ability to spot critical patterns with 90-day comparative analytics 
  • Act with confidence with real-time insights ensuring you are not just reacting to disruptions but anticipating them 

AI-Driven Insights: Both solutions use our proprietary AI models to deliver clarity at scale, analyzing over 230 million global entities and 11+ billion supplier relationships we process more than 125 billion data points monthly to uncover patterns and benchmarks that were previously impossible to access.  

This vast coverage provides forward looking analysis to stay ahead of complex supply chain disruptions. 

Together, these solutions address critical challenges that have long plagued procurement and supply chain risk management teams: 

  • Early Warning Detection: Previously, gradual risk increases could go unnoticed until they reached critical levels. Now, Risk Trends helps you identify concerning patterns months before they escalate into crises. 
  • Strategic Resource Allocation: Instead of reacting to every risk spike, you can now differentiate between temporary anomalies and systemic issues, industry norms and suppliers below industry standards – ensuring resources are directed where they matter most. 
  • Stakeholder Confidence: When board members or regulators request risk analyses, you no longer need weeks to compile manual reports. Both solutions provide instant, comprehensive insights that demonstrate your proactive approach to risk management. 

Real-World Impact: Transforming Risk Management Through Intelligence 

Consider these scenarios where Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends makes all the difference: 

  • A procurement manager spots a steady twelve-month decline in a supplier’s compliance scores, enabling preventive action before regulatory issues arise 
  • A risk analyst identifies an emerging pattern of cyber vulnerabilities across specific industry segments, allowing for targeted intervention 
  • A supply chain director uses benchmark data to optimize risk mitigation investments across their supplier portfolio 

With this foundation, interos.ai is helping supply chain leaders move from reactive crisis management to proactive, strategic decision-making. 

  • You can pinpoint how your supply chain risk stacks up against the industry standards in seconds 
  • You will spot vulnerabilities in ESG compliance months before they impact your brand reputation 
  • You have the confidence to brief your leadership team with insights grounded in data and context 

That’s the world we’re building with Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends. 

The Next Evolution in Supply Chain Risk Management 

At interos.ai, we believe the future of supply chain management lies in clarity and understanding.  

Effective risk management requires both breadth and depth of insight. Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends deliver this by combining comprehensive historical analysis with precise industry comparisons. 

Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends are more than tools — they’re the cutting-edge foundation to remove risk from your supply chain, at scale 

By delivering the context behind your data, these solutions help you uncover vulnerabilities, anticipate challenges, and stay ahead in an increasingly complex world. 

Are You Ready to Turn Risk Into Your Competitive Advantage?  

Learn more about Industry Benchmarking and Risk Trends at interos.ai:  

Salt Typhoon Telecom Hack Rattles Critical Infrastructure

Salt Typhoon: What Happened and Why Does it Matter?  

Salt Typhoon was the “Worst telecom hack in our nation’s history,” Senator Mark Warner, Chair of the US Senate Intelligence Committee.  

Salt Typhoon, a Chinese affiliated hacker group, compromised at least 8 U.S. telecom providers – stealing a large amount of data, including records of government officials and political figures.

The attack was unprecedented in scope and began in 2022. 

The extent of the breach is still unknown, with Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) saying it would be impossible to predict when the hackers would be fully removed from the systems.

Watch our take on the events below:  

 

Downstream Supply Chain Impact 

Jessica Rosenworcel, Chairwoman of the Federal Communications Commission announced the need for “a modern framework to help companies secure their networks and better prevent and respond to cyberattacks in the future.” 

In our interconnected world, this extends to vulnerabilities in your supply chain.  

Using interos.ai’s data, we see the Salt Typhoon attack impact could ripple out to 3.3 million distinct companies in the extended supply chain of 4 of the largest telecom companies in the US.

We estimate that the affected telecom companies represent a significant portion of the U.S. economy, serving over 350 million wireless customers collectively and generating more than $334 billion in annual revenue.  

If even a fraction of these systems remains compromised, the downstream impact on businesses reliant on secure communications could reach into the tens of billions in economic losses. 

Ted Krantz, interos.ai’s CEO Discusses New Era of Cybersecurity  

“Beyond the immediate blast radius, we must consider the future ramifications. Cyberattacks like this can fuel cascading effects we aren’t yet prepared for—whether that’s enabling more sophisticated surveillance of private citizens or jeopardizing critical infrastructure. Each stolen record costs the economy an average of $169, according to industry data. Multiplied by the potential number of affected individuals, the total economic cost could exceed $15 billion in direct and indirect damages within the next year alone.”

– Ted Krantz, CEO, interos.ai discusses.  

“The FCC’s proposed clarifications and certification requirements are steps in the right direction, but we must also prioritize collaboration between the private sector, regulators, and intelligence agencies to build a modern cybersecurity framework.” 

“This includes leveraging advanced technologies like AI to improve threat detection and response, increasing transparency across supply chains, and fostering global partnerships to address cross-border cyber threats.” 

“The Salt Typhoon attack may be unprecedented in scope, but it is not surprising. We’re in a new era of attacks targeting critical infrastructure.”  

“This is a battle we’ve been preparing for, and one we must pre-empt with innovation and data-fueled risk intelligence.” 

Defend Against Digital Threats

Before disaster hits, Interos’s critical risk intelligence platform helps companies mitigate the financial impacts of multi-tier risks like cyber attacks by continuously mapping and monitoring extended supply chains at speed and scale.  

Learn how you defend against digital threats.