How B2B Buyers Verify Supplier Compliance
Ask any procurement manager how they verify supplier compliance today, and the answer is the same across every industry: "We email them and ask for their certificates."
Then the waiting begins. The supplier finds the PDF — hopefully the current version. They email it. The buyer files it in a shared drive, or a SharePoint folder, or their inbox. Six months later, when an auditor asks for proof of supplier compliance, someone searches for the attachment. It may have the wrong date, the wrong version, or both. So they email the supplier again.
This is not a process. It is a ritual — one that every procurement team performs and that every audit exposes as insufficient.