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Knowing Your Counterparty's Counterparty: The New Standard for Supply Chain Risk

Supply chain risk management has traditionally relied on a familiar process: screen suppliers, check sanctions lists, document the results, and move on. But growing regulatory expectations, geopolitical complexity, and increasingly interconnected global supply chains are making that checklist-driven approach harder to defend.

Knowing your direct supplier is no longer enough.

Organizations increasingly need to understand the broader networks behind their counterparties, from ownership structures and corporate relationships to cross-border operations and other connections that may expose the business to regulatory or geopolitical risk. That requires supply chain teams to move beyond a compliance mindset and start thinking more like investigators.

This briefing, created in partnership with Tesari AI and informed by a conversation with Elisar Nurmagambet, Co-Founder and CEO, and Brian Andersen, Vice President of National Security Applications, explores what this shift means for supply chain risk management and how technology can support deeper investigations while keeping critical decisions in human hands.

Download this briefing to learn:

• Why traditional compliance checks are becoming insufficient for today's supply chain risks
• What it means to know your counterparty's counterparty
• How an investigative mindset changes the way teams approach due diligence
• Why structured compliance data may only reveal part of a supplier's risk profile
• How AI can accelerate complex investigations while preserving human accountability
• Why documentation and audit trails are becoming increasingly important to demonstrating due diligence