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The Very Group

Leading Retailer Very Transform their Vendor Risk Management Operations with SureCloud

British home shopping giant implements SureCloud’s Vendor Risk
Management solution to overhaul their management of third-party risks

"When we saw how quickly and easily the SureCloud Platform could transform our third party assurance program, we knew that it was exactly what we need"

Chris McAteer

Director of Compliance and Operational Risk, The Very Group

What current TPRM challenges
are you facing?
The challenges Very were facing:
The Very Group, the world's largest home shopping provider, sells over 2,000 brands and offers flexible payment options. With a supplier network of over 800 organizations, they faced risks from their supply chain and technology infrastructure.
  • Check icon-1 Outdated due diligence practices which involved the distribution of questionnaires to suppliers via email.
  • Check icon Manual task management which was accounting for 25% of the team’s time.
  • Check icon The need for purpose-built, best practice-aligned workflows to optimize Vendor Risk Management processes.
  • A lack of visibility on existing TPRM processes, and looking for intuitive reporting.
  • Check icon Existing risk platforms not able to provide configurability to enable their Vendor Risk Management solution to be tailored to meet specific needs

How SureCloud Transformed Very's Vendor Risk Management

Transformation of Third-Party Risk Management processes

SureCloud worked with The Very Group to identify and address inefficiencies within their operations

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Reduced administration costs

Our team designed a highly automated vendor assurance program, requiring significantly less manual intervention from the Very team.

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Improved vendor experience

Very implemented a centrally-managed and automated third-party assurance program which delivers optimized questionnaires to all suppliers.

 

These question sets were designed to eliminate ambiguity and repetition, and to obtain the quantitative and qualitative information needed.


The SureCloud platform was leveraged to facilitate all Vendor Risk Management workflows and reporting 

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"Management of the third party audit has been hugely simplified, and we have real-time visibility of the questionnaires and how each supplier is progressing with their responses."

Chris McAteer

Director of Compliance and Operational Risk, The Very Group

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SureCloud’s Vendor Risk Management solution enabled The Very Group to:
  • Check icon-1 Secure and centralize their Vendor Risk Management data storage, to achieve a single source of truth.
  • Check icon Redesign optimized question sets, based on their existing spreadsheet-based questionnaires.
  • Check icon Define a structured third-party risk management lifecycle for managing and monitoring relationships.
  • Administer custom questionnaires to their key suppliers and orchestrate responses.
  • Check icon Move away from manual tooling and outdated working practices.
  • Check icon Provide instant reporting of all Vendor Risk Management activities.
  • Check icon Leverage the SureCloud platform to enable optimized and intuitive workflows.
  • Check icon Achieve real-time insights into their levels of vendor risk assurance, via SureCloud’s insightful dashboards.
  • Check icon Enhance insights and eliminate data siloes by integrating their Vendor Risk Management program into their overall GRC activities.

SureCloud’s Vendor Risk Management solution enabled The Very Group to:

  • Check icon-1 Secure and centralize their Vendor Risk Management data storage, to achieve a single source of truth.
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