How a Buyer Used Supplier Risk Scoring to Cut Disruptions 40 Percent

The Buyer's Side with Fexingo: Procurement, Sourcing, and B2B Purchasing Decisions · Jun 30, 2026 · 10m · transcript

In this episode of The Buyer's Side, Lucas and Luna examine how a mid-sized industrial manufacturer slashed supply disruptions by 40 percent using a supplier risk scoring system. They walk through the real-world case of a company that mapped financial health, geopolitical exposure, and single-point-of-failure dependencies across 200 suppliers — and used the scores to trigger proactive mitigation instead of reactive firefighting. Lucas explains the three-tier scoring model, how the buyer convinced suppliers to share sensitive data, and the single dashboard that gave procurement a…