Does your operation depend on suppliers you do not really know?
Kavuka KYS turns supplier management into a program: integrity and ultimate beneficial owner, financial health, forced-labor and ESG screening, living documentation and continuous monitoring — with diligence proportional to the criticality of each category.
- Minutes
- per onboarding
- 100%
- of base against forced-labor and sanctions lists
- Expiry controlled
- certificates and licenses
- Criticality
- classified across the whole chain
Pipeline in production onboarding and monitoring suppliers for industry, agribusiness, retail and construction — bases continuously screened against forced-labor lists, embargoes and sanctions, with a per-supplier audit trail.
Every day your operation depends on suppliers nobody is watching.
The supplier that fails without warning
81% of operations have already suffered supplier disruption and 30% of events cost over US$ 5 million — halted production, emergency purchases and premium freight eating the margin.
The news that climbs the chain
A supplier on the forced-labor list becomes a headline with your brand in the title. Discovery by the press is the process failure: nobody was screening the base.
The inherited liability
An irregular contractor becomes your subsidiary liability; a third party’s corrupt act becomes an anti-corruption fine on your company.
Cost 30% of supplier disruptions cost over US$ 5 million (RapidRatings, 2025) — and only 7% of organizations have mature third-party risk management. Which side is your chain on?
From spreadsheet to control tower, in one pipeline.
- 01
Classify
Categories and criticality: each supplier type with a proportional diligence ruler — the critical input is not screened like office supplies.
- 02
Onboard
Integrity dossier (KYB engine) + financial health + ESG + document collection and validation, in a digital pipeline — in minutes, not weeks.
- 03
Monitor
100% of the base under continuous watch: forced-labor list, sanctions, lawsuits, ownership changes, financial stress and certificate expiry.
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Prove
Per-supplier audit trail and clean-chain evidence ready for audits, global clients and regulators.
The engine behind every supplier
A single pipeline cross-references integrity, financial health, the Brazilian ESG ruler and living documentation — and returns a structured risk profile per supplier and per category.
Full integrity
Federal registry, ownership and UBO
Forced-labor list
Ministry of Labor employer registry
Environmental embargoes
IBAMA penalties and embargoes
Sanctions and integrity
CEIS, CNEP and international sanctions
Financial health
Size, revenue, protests and stress signals
Lawsuits and labor liability
Civil, criminal and labor spheres
Living documentation
Certificates, policies and licenses with expiry
Criticality and concentration
Critical vs replaceable supplier and dependency
Who runs their chain with Kavuka KYS
Industry & Manufacturing
Onboarding and requalification of input suppliers; criticality and a plan B for single-source items that halt the line.
Agribusiness & Export
Provable clean chain: forced-labor list, environmental embargoes and traceability required by global buyers and European regulation.
Construction & Infrastructure
Subcontractors with high labor risk and the principal’s subsidiary liability — a sector recurring on the forced-labor list.
Retail & Services
A large, rotating base of suppliers and providers, with reputational risk from private label and outsourcing.
The clean chain your client, your lender and the regulator require
Kavuka KYS was designed for the Brazilian ESG ruler and handled for data-protection law from the very first record. Supply-chain ESG is no longer an institutional block — it became a purchasing criterion, a financing covenant and an audit requirement.
- Documented third-party diligence as a pillar of the integrity program required by the anti-corruption law.
- Continuous screening of the forced-labor list at each semiannual update by the Ministry of Labor.
- Management of subsidiary liability in outsourcing, with evidence retention.
- Evidence organized for global clients’ ESG questionnaires and international supply-chain due-diligence laws.
- Processing under data-protection law with adequate legal bases, public or legally permitted sources and a DPA for enterprise clients.
The forced-labor alert arrived before the update became news. We ended the contract and documented everything the same day.
Onboarding dropped from 4 weeks to 2 days, and for the first time we know which suppliers are truly critical.
We answered a global buyer’s ESG questionnaire in one day, with per-supplier evidence. It used to be a desperate scramble.
Ready to put your chain under control?
In 15 minutes you see the control tower running with real suppliers from your base.
- For businesses only. No purchase commitment.
- Data used solely for commercial contact.
- Enterprise leads answered within 1 business day.
What KYS is and how to manage supplier risk
KYS (Know Your Supplier) is the complete program for managing the risk of suppliers and third parties in the supply chain: from initial onboarding to periodic requalification, from continuous monitoring to ESG criteria, from operational criticality to the contingency plan. While KYB answers "does this company exist, is it compliant and who controls it?", KYS answers the business question that keeps the CPO awake: "can I depend on this company — today and throughout the contract?". In Kavuka’s architecture, KYB is the validation engine for any company; KYS is the discipline that Procurement and Supply Chain operate on top of that engine.
Supplier onboarding is the entry rite of KYS: the formal qualification process before contracting. A complete KYS covers six dimensions — integrity (existence, tax compliance, ownership, ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions and debarment lists), capacity and financial health to deliver, labor and ESG compliance across the chain, living documentation (certificates, policies and licenses with expiry control), criticality and dependency, and continuous monitoring. Onboarding is the entry snapshot; monitoring is the film: alerts of list inclusion, new lawsuits, ownership changes, financial-stress signals and expiring certificates, throughout the entire relationship.
In Brazil, the chain’s ESG ruler has an unavoidable signal: the forced-labor list — the registry of employers that subjected workers to slavery-like conditions, maintained by the Ministry of Labor since 2003 and updated semiannually. Inclusion follows a final administrative decision and the name stays for two years. Recent cases of major brands exposed by suppliers in their own chain showed that reputational contamination climbs the chain: screening must cover suppliers and, at critical links, the suppliers’ suppliers. Add to that subsidiary liability in outsourcing, strict liability for third-party acts under the anti-corruption law, and the growing pressure of European supply-chain due-diligence laws on exporters.
Automating KYS means turning supplier management from spreadsheet into control tower. Instead of onboarding by email taking weeks, expired certificates discovered in audits and every supplier treated alike, the platform applies diligence proportional to each category’s criticality, collects and validates documents with automatic supplier follow-up, screens 100% of the base against forced-labor, embargo, sanctions and debarment lists, and keeps continuous watch with an audit trail. The result is fast onboarding, a provable clean chain for global clients and auditors, no critical supplier off the radar — and the diligence evidence your integrity program requires, ready to answer the client, the lender and the regulator.
What is the difference between KYS and KYB?
KYB is the validation engine for any company (registry, partners, ultimate beneficial owner, sanctions). KYS is the supplier-management program built on that engine: criticality by category, financial health, the ESG ruler (forced-labor list, embargoes), living documentation with expiry and continuous monitoring throughout the contract.
What is verified when onboarding a supplier?
Full integrity (company registry, tax status, ownership, ultimate beneficial owner, debarment and sanctions lists), capacity and financial health compatible with the contract, labor and ESG compliance (including the forced-labor list and environmental embargoes), relevant lawsuits and the documentation your policy requires — all in a digital pipeline with an auditable dossier.
What is the forced-labor list and why must I monitor it?
It is the public registry of the Ministry of Labor listing employers held responsible, by final administrative decision, for subjecting workers to slavery-like conditions. Updated semiannually, it is the most sensitive ESG signal in the Brazilian chain: a listed supplier contaminates the reputation of whoever buys from it. KYS screens 100% of your base at each update — and warns you before it becomes news.
Is verification one-time or continuous?
Continuous. Onboarding is the entry snapshot; monitoring is the film: alerts of list inclusion, new lawsuits, ownership changes, financial-stress signals and expiring certificates — throughout the entire relationship, with periodic requalification proportional to criticality.
How does KYS handle critical suppliers?
With enhanced diligence: criticality classification by category, concentration and dependency analysis, intensified monitoring and contingency-plan support. The single-source input that halts your line cannot follow the same ruler as office supplies.
Does KYS help answer ESG questionnaires from clients and lenders?
Yes. The diligence evidence — forced-labor, sanctions, embargo and integrity checks — is organized per supplier with an audit trail, ready to answer sustainability questionnaires, global-buyer requirements, financing covenants and certification audits.
How does KYS integrate with my ERP or procurement system?
Via a documented REST API, integration with the main ERPs and procurement platforms, or import of your current base by spreadsheet. Typical implementation takes a few days, with dedicated Customer Success — and your existing base enters monitored from day one.
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