Companies gives you visibility of your entire supplier ecosystem, including spend, performance and services.
Designed to enable sourcing decisions based on risk, Social Value (location, innovation, company size, diversity) and Net Zero impact.
- Full visibility on all your suppliers, no onboarding required.
- See suppliers across your business systems & filter by different sources (e.g. different alliance partners / different systems you have connected to IAND).
- Map & list-based sourcing & reporting.
- Filter by category, service, SME & more.
- Auto-assign registered address. Suppliers add local offices.
Note: Only you and your colleagues on IAND have visibility of your list of Companies, it is not public and not visible to your suppliers.
To help you get started with Companies, we’ve included some tips on:
Finding & browsing suppliers
Filters
Use the filters to narrow your selection by ESG IMPACT performance, service & sector, expertise, account status and Companies House trading status.
Onboarding & compliance
- Platform status: a choice of three options, depending on whether the supplier is live, has been invited to join IAND or is inactive. Inactive is further categorised into offboarded (a supplier who has been live on the platform) and never set up.
- Company category: there are four default options, but these can be customised to your needs. Company categories make it easy to view your company's relationship with a supplier. You can assign a supplier to a Company category from their Company Profile page. See guide.
- Compliance level: these are configurable to your organisation and enable you to filter suppliers according to the risk level/type of work they are approved to work at and the status of this approval. See guide.
SMEs & social value
- Carbon: IAND captures carbon impact by allowing suppliers to submit their Scope 1 and 2 carbon emissions (tCO₂e) each year. This helps to track progress towards carbon goals.
- Innovation: IAND allows suppliers to showcase innovation by capturing the amount of grant funding received and investments made in research and development projects. Where the supplier hasn't added this, the IAND IMPACT API pulls in this data from publicly available sources.
- Diversity: IAND captures supplier diversity allowing them to provide information on the percentage of women in the upper quartile pay grade at their company. Where the supplier hasn't added this, the IAND IMPACT API pulls in this data from publicly available sources.
- Organisation > VCSE: A company qualifies as a Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise if they work towards a social purpose. These companies are also referred to as ‘third sector’ or ‘civil society’ organisations. On IAND, this is self-declared by suppliers.
- Organisation > Start-up: Defined as a company that is designed to grow fast, which is either developing technology or using technology to operate its business. On IAND, this is self-declared by suppliers.
- Company size: The supplier's headcount helps to highlight the size category of their company, flagging suppliers who are SMEs with an SME badge and status. Where a supplier hasn’t provided headcount, the IAND IMPACT API uses publicly available data as an indicator.
TIP! See guide to read more about the ESG IMPACT feature.
Office locations
- Offices by region: Entered by your supplier when they populate their profile.
- Office type: Entered by your supplier or imported from Companies House. The location of the supplier's Head office, Registered address and other office locations.
- Where they work: Entered by your supplier, locations of where they work.
Services & sectors
- Services: Includes a set of services that your supplier can select from. Your Portfolio will either use the IAND default set of services or a custom set configured by your account admin.
- Sectors: As per 'Services'.
- SIC Code: The service code for a supplier as stated on Companies House.
Companies House & data sources
- Co. House status: Trading information available via Companies House, highlighting statuses from 'Active' to 'Liquidation'.
- Source / system: There may be multiple sources on your Portfolio to reflect different systems from your organisation (finance, procurement, supplier sourcing list) or reflect different partners working in your Alliance. Use this filter to see suppliers working across partners, to find opportunities for programmatic spend or where there may be capacity constraints.
Searching for a supplier or a service
Use the search bar when you know the name of a supplier, or when you are looking for a service such as 'architecture'. Example searches:
- 'Supplier A Ltd' - when you know the name of your supplier
'Architecture' - when you are looking for a service or expertise
TIP! The search bar supports partial matches on supplier names, when one name is fully contained within another. For example, searching for 'Supplier A' will return 'Supplier A Ltd' in the results.
This means you can search for a supplier even if you are not sure of their exact name in IAND. We recommend searching without Ltd/Limited for this reason.
Getting to know your suppliers
You can use Company Profiles for account management, with visibility into ESG performance, details on services and sectors covered, live and historic Projects, the compliance documents submitted, spend and performance.
When your supplier is live, you can:
Find the key point of contact (when added by supplier)
Read Description, Region, Products & Services (when added by supplier)
Set up KPIs to collaborate with Suppliers on meeting key targets
View 360° performance score on Projects
Request and manage compliance information (see guide)
- View full set of ESG metrics (when added by supplier)
When a supplier is not yet live on IAND, you can still:
View Companies House status
Assign a category e.g. 'Authorised' or 'Do not use' (see guide)
View total spend and access individual Projects
Add internal notes on the supplier, visible to your colleagues only
- View ESG metrics automatically imported via the IAND IMPACT API
See guide to find out more about Company Profiles.
