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Industrials

Third-party risk management and Supply chain management solutions

Businesses in the industrials sector face rising costs, supply chain volatility, and regulatory pressure. To protect margins and avoid disruption, teams need fast, data-driven insights—especially when managing third-party exposure and protecting operational resilience.

Digitally transform your risk management strategy with Moody’s trusted data, analytics, and workflows. Reduce uncertainty, improve efficiency, and keep your operations running smoothly.

  • Predict disruptions before they escalate
  • Prioritize risks by impact and urgency
  • Protect operations with smarter decisions
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How Moody's helps you manage risk

Industrial firms can better understand financial exposure, supplier performance, and risk-related costs using Moody’s global data and AI-driven analytics.

Key risk areas and what you get with Moody’s

Supplier risk profiles

Supplier risk profiles 

Insights into 580+ million entities to assess risk across key dimensions

Operational risk

Operational risk 

Identify financially stressed suppliers that could impact a supply chain and disrupt operations

Credit risk

Credit risk 

Evaluate a supplier’s probability of default over 12 months, based on market signals and financial fundamentals

Financial health

Financial health 

Assess the financial health of third parties using Moody’s proprietary Early Warning Scores, which combine financial ratios, payment behavior, and macroeconomic indicators to flag signs of stress

Compliance

Compliance 

Streamline due diligence, sanctions, and anti-corruption checks

Tariffs

Tariffs

Use financial data to support fair tariff cost-sharing with partners

Holistic risk assessments

Holistic risk assessments 

Evaluate cyber, geopolitical, physical and transition, and lower-tier risks

Risk mitigation menu

Risk mitigation menu 

Get tailored mitigation options for high-risk suppliers

Forced labor risk

Forced labor risk 

Identify suppliers operating in potentially high-risk regions or who may lack human rights safeguards

Gain the insights you need to take control of risk, safeguard performance, and strengthen resilience.

Who we help

01 Manufacturing

Manufacturing

Make informed decisions to mitigate risk, drive efficiency, and support supply chains with credit ratings, market intelligence, and risk analytics.

Manufacturing businesses can use Moody’s foreign direct investment (FDI) data to analyze sectoral shifts and investment flows, using strategic insights into global capital trends that could influence production and expansion decisions.

Manufacturers with high-value physical assets can use Moody's catastrophe modeling to help them assess exposure to natural hazards for proactive risk management and resilience planning.

And manufacturers are further empowered to manage counterparty risk and safeguard cash flow with Moody’s trade credit solutions that provide insights into the creditworthiness of suppliers, buyers, and partners across global markets.

02 Automotive

Automotive

Automotive firms can manage complex global risks with insights into supplier health, physical and transitional risk, and geopolitical exposures using Moody’s data, analytics, and workflow solutions. Automotive businesses can strengthen third-party risk management by continuously monitoring supplier creditworthiness, sustainability performance, and operational stability.

Teams in the sector can use Moody’s tools to identify risk warnings across global supply chains for more proactive mitigation against disruptions.

03 Conglomerates

Conglomerates

Centralize risk intelligence across diverse business units to create more consistent oversight. Conglomerates use Moody’s data and analytics to strengthen operational resilience and identify vulnerabilities across complex supply chains and business structures.

Conglomerates can support their profitability through data-driven insights that optimize capital allocation and performance monitoring.

04 Construction and engineering

Construction and engineering

Construction and engineering businesses can mitigate the risk of project delays by assessing a subcontractor's reliability and other risk factors. Moody’s provides powerful tools that can be used to evaluate the financial health, creditworthiness, of subcontractors and suppliers—then firms can make informed partner selections and manage risk proactively throughout a project lifecycle.

Our solutions also help construction and engineering firms with forced labor risk assessment, and geopolitical and environmental risks that could impact material sourcing, labor availability, or regulatory compliance.

05 Transport and logistics

Transport and logistics

Transport and logistics teams leverage Moody's solutions in evaluating partner resilience—and potential bottlenecks—with advanced risk modeling. Firms can use Moody’s comprehensive entity data and AI-powered analytics to assess the financial stability, operational reliability, and sustainability performance of carriers, freight partners, and suppliers.

Teams also use Moody's tools to help forecast areas of potential disruption across global routes by integrating geopolitical, physical, and economic risk indicators.

With dynamic alerts and predictive insights, transport and logistics businesses are supported to be more proactive in managing third-party risks, optimize route planning, and improve continuity across complex supply chains.

06 Captive finance

Captive finance

Moody's offers solutions to help captive finance providers identify emerging risks, optimize credit decisioning, and align with evolving regulatory requirements.

With forward-looking economic indicators and dynamic risk insights, finance teams are empowered to support their parent brands while maintaining resilience and profitability in changing market conditions.

Use Moody’s integrated data and analytics as part of compliance activity, monitoring credit risk, and tracking macroeconomic trends. 

How we help

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Moody’s Maxsight™

Get a view of risk across complex supply chains and distribution networks. The platform brings together global data and risk indicators from different sources, to help you assess, screen, onboard, and monitor suppliers anywhere in the world.

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Credit Risk

Evaluate the creditworthiness of suppliers, customers, and counterparties using Moody’s trusted credit ratings, financial risk models, and entity-level data—helping you reduce exposure to defaults, negotiate better terms, and strengthen financial resilience across your value chain.

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Financial Health Checks

Assess the financial health of suppliers using risk models and global data to identify signs of financial stress. This can help avoid disruptions and aid negotiations.

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Custom Dashboards

Bring together key supplier risk data—like financial health, compliance flags, forced labor risk alerts, and sustainability scores—into one, clear dashboard. This can help you identify issues, prioritize actions, and manage potential disruptions.

How our tools work

Moody’s tools are powered by global data, advanced analytics, and proprietary methodologies designed to give industrial businesses a clearer view of risk.

Our platforms integrate structured and unstructured data from over 580 million entities worldwide.

For more details on how our tools work and how you can use them in your risk management and compliance programs, please get in touch any time—we would love to hear from you.

Key compliance areas

  • Automate screening and due diligence in near real-time
  • Monitor global sanctions lists and ownership changes
  • Identify high-risk suppliers
  • Track adverse media and build strong onboarding processes
  • Assess an entity’s financial health and early signs of stress
  • Support negotiations with data insights
  • Pre-screen suppliers for forced labor risk alerts
  • Implement tiered due diligence and maintain robust reporting for regulators and leadership

What our customers say

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"Moody’s gives us a daily snapshot of risk. It’s helped us boost efficiency and focus our time where it matters most."

— Blue Water Industries, on improving credit team performance with Moody’s

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“Moody's has become an essential part of our credit process. It gives us the transparency we need to act quickly.”

— Blue Water Industries, on improving credit team performance with Moody’s

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FAQs

Q: Can Moody’s help with lower-tier (fourth-party) supplier risk?

A: Yes, we have information on more than half a billion entities globally.

Q: How fast can we get started?

A: Typically within 4 weeks via web interface or system integration.

Q: How does data help decision-making?

A: Data can help improve transparency and support decisions based on financial information, potential disruptions, and third-party risks.

Q: Will we have dedicated support?

A: Yes, our global customer success teams are here to help from onboarding to ongoing optimization.

If you have any other questions, please get in touch—we would be happy to answer them.
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Reading and resources on risk management

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Apr 08, 2025

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The impact of tariffs on suppliers

In today’s interconnected global landscape, tariffs have become more than an instrument of trade negotiations. Rather, when implemented at pace and scale, they can be a disruptive force.

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Mar 21, 2025

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Resilience after disruption: Improving supply chain risk management after Covid-19

This year marks five years since many governments around the world began imposing lockdowns to manage the Covid-19 outbreak, which upended global supply chains and transformed supply chain risk management.

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From data to decisions: why using value at risk calculations can bolster supply chain management

Supplier risk management is in flux. While supply chain leaders have readjusted to business as usual following the Covid-19 pandemic, there is no doubt that it exposed global supply chains’ fragility. 

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Moody’s can help you understand and manage risk across your third-party network, supply chain, and beyond.

If you want to discuss a solution for your risk management program, please get in touch with the team today—we would love to hear from you.