Local
Whether it’s to manage the acquisition process better, improve tax compliance, ensure data quality, solve investigations faster with worldwide intelligence, be prepared for unforeseen emergencies, or to identify new business opportunities, the D&B Government team offers a consultative, collaborative solutions approach to meeting central or local government needs.
In fact, the D&B’s D-U-N-S® Number is globally recognised as a universal business identification standard by more than 50 associations, including the U.S. Government, United Nations and the European Commission.
Supply Chain Management
Duplicate or outdated supplier information, inability to consolidate spend data across individual or multiple departments, under reporting diverse spend, visibility of total spend, cost reduction, and monitoring critical suppliers challenge even the best procurement department. D&B can help manage the supply chain process better. D&B information enables supplier registration, de-duplication, supplier validation and risk analysis, supplier dependancy and ongoing monitoring of supplier risk. Group spend and exposure, and annual spend analysis to drive cost reductions.
Data Management
Poor data quality can cost your department millions annually. D&B can help maintain quality data for your decision making. D&B’s DUNSRight® process can help standardise your information, match your information against our global database and append our unique identifier, the D-U-N-S® Number to confirm the business and track business change. D&B can enrich your information with other data elements such as Corporate Linkage and Predictive Indicators. And finally, D&B can integrate enriched information directly into your systems.
Law Enforcement / Intelligence
Investigations are a time-consuming process that can yield no results. The information is often outdated or incomplete. Access to global business information is often limited yet critical to counteract terrorism or trace corporate fraud. D&B can help solve investigations faster with access to worldwide intelligence. D&B’s global database of over 115 million businesses provides analysts the information, intelligence and/or insight they need to solve investigations more quickly.
Regional Economic Development
Discovering new economic opportunities and retaining existing business wealth within a community or region has become extremely competitive. D&B can help accelerate economic development initiatives. Direct access to the millions of international businesses in D&B’s global database helps to identify prospective companies and validate the stability and economic promise of those companies.