Dun & Bradstreet South Asia, Middle East and Africa has launched Partn-R, an artificial intelligence-enabled vendor management platform it says is designed to move companies beyond basic supplier onboarding and into wider third-party risk oversight.
The new system replaces the company’s earlier Vend-R platform and is aimed at organisations that need to manage suppliers, contractors and other business partners through a single workflow. It combines automated onboarding, ta...
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ilored Know Your Customer and Know Your Business checks, continuous screening against sanctions and watchlists, and access to a directory of pre-verified vendors.
According to Dun & Bradstreet, the platform draws on its Commercial Graph, which contains verified data on hundreds of millions of entities worldwide, to support due diligence and ongoing monitoring. The company says this is intended to reduce the manual work involved in checking the legal status, financial health and compliance history of third parties.
Chijioke Agusi, sales manager for risk management solutions at D&B Nigeria, said Partn-R was meant to make commercial relationships more transparent and less cumbersome. The platform also includes a self-service portal for vendors, allowing them to manage registrations, track tender applications and share verified credentials with multiple customers.
The launch comes as companies face heavier scrutiny over supply chains and third-party conduct, particularly on issues such as sanctions breaches, money laundering and environmental compliance. For businesses operating across African markets, that pressure is increasingly shaping how they present themselves to multinational buyers and investors.
Partn-R also reflects a broader push by Dun & Bradstreet to embed generative AI into its enterprise products. In a separate announcement, the company said new agentic AI features in its risk analytics tools can cut compliance and third-party risk processing times by 70% to 90%, underscoring its ambition to position data and automation as central to risk management.
Source: Noah Wire Services
