D&B, world leader as a supplier of global business intelligence and
information, can help you manage your credit risk, increase cash flow
and profitability and monitor the financial health of your business
contacts. D&B can help you take decisions, irrespective of whether you
prefer to check your business partners yourself or opt for an automated
decision-making process. A solution integrated in the business processes
of your company is also an option.
Your risk & credit management requirements
► Reliable credit information on companies
A good and reliable business information source is vital to minimise
business risks. D&B’s worldwide databank contains data on more than
million companies from 214 countries and forms the basis of the D&B credit
information reports.
Via the online system
D&B Access for the Internet (DBAI) you can obtain up-to-date
credit information at any moment to support your business decisions.
Minimum risks and maximum turnover guarantee that your company remains
healthy. If you obtain information at the right moment on the risks
of your business transactions, you can protect your activities and
profit margins proactively against potential risks of loss.
The
Business
Information Reports help you take daily credit decisions and
analyse the financial strength of a company. As each decision calls
for a different level of information, D&B offers you different report
types according to your specific information requirement. The credit
information reports contain unique predicting elements that enable
you to assess risks objectively and consistently, such as the D&B
Bankruptcy Score, the D&B Rating and the D&B Payment Score.
► Doing business safely in other countries
To do business safely in other countries you must be aware of
the financial and global risks you run in a specific country.
D&B's Country
Risk Services inform you about changes in the risk environment
of individual countries and predict national developments that may
affect this in the short to medium term.
► Following developments at your customer’s
If you have to take decisions quickly, it is important that you
are aware of business changes at your customer’s as soon as they
occur. The
D&B Monitoring
service informs you about a changed situation during a period
of 12 months. When a change takes place, you receive a report in
the form of an e-mail or via our online system D&B Access for the
Internet.
► Automating credit decisions
If you have to take a lot of credit decisions every year, automation
is the solution for you.
D&B
DecisionMaker
is an automated system for worldwide decisions via D&B Access for
the Internet or integrated in your own system. In this way you free
up time to spend on the more complex cases.
► Obtaining information on your whole client portfolio
If you manage a large client portfolio, it is difficult to find
out how your whole client portfolio is performing. This becomes
even more difficult if your portfolio consists of a number of national
or even international sub-portfolios.
Portfolio
Manager is an online analysis programme that combines the outstanding
amounts of your clients with D&B’s databank to provide you with
a unique insight into the main risks and opportunities in your client
portfolio. Because you can set your priorities better, you increase
the efficiency of your credit management activities.
► Automatic updating of D&B data in your database
Do you want to integrate D&B data in your own business systems
to keep your information up to date?
Using D&B's
Data Integration Toolkit you can access the business intelligence
you need in an easy and cost-effective way. The Toolkit offers you
all the software components required to build your interface with
D&B simply and quickly. In this way you can integrate high-quality
data directly into your own system or B-to-B e-commerce application.
► Updating and expanding your database
D&B aims to provide its clients with information of the highest
quality. Using the unique quality guarantee process
DUNSRight™
D&B provides correct, complete, up-to-date data that are consistent
worldwide so that you can take decisions with confidence.
To take optimum advantage of this as a company, all your divisions
and departments should work from a common business information basis.
D&B’s
Customer Information Management (CIM) solution consolidates
the client and supplier information in your existing systems to
create consistent, integrated and expanded source files.
► Know everything there is to know about the group relationships
of clients and prospects
Do you want complete insight into your clients, prospects, competitors
or business partners? With D&B’s worldwide database you can obtain
information on group relationships (group structures).
More than 8.5 million companies form part of the almost 2 million
company groups worldwide. D&B has mapped the group relationship
from small companies with only 1 branch to the largest groups with
thousands of family members.
► Limit credit risks in the acquisition phase
D&B’s Credit Marketing approach
Clever credit managers and marketeers work together to screen
in advance the financial health not only of clients but of prospects
too. By means of credit marketing the finance, sales and marketing
departments in an organisation work together. Only spend your money
on prospects that are financially healthy and prevent defaults.
D&B offers specific solutions for profitable credit marketing.
