Supplier management

The GSSC provides centralized, high-volume processing of supplier approvals for UNDP and two UN partner entities, ensuring accuracy, compliance, and operational efficiency across global operations. The GSSC also manages supplier onboarding, performance reviews, risk assessment, and supplier relationship management. These services ensure compliance and contract standards, resulting in faster processing, reduced manual tasks, and improved compliance in over 170 countries. 

In 2024, the GSSC processed 106,000 supplier management transactions with a 93.2% completion rate.

We provide:  

	Supplier Management Support: including registration, updates, enquiries and sanctions screening.
	Dashboards & Reports: tools such as the Supplier Dashboard and Sanctions Screening Report enhance visibility and mitigate potential compliance risks.
	Automated Sanction Screening of Existing Suppliers: Over 700,000 active suppliers in Quantum database are screened against the UN Global Marketplace (UNGM) and the UNDP Interim Sanction List on monthly basis. Alerts are sent to client offices for verification, helping to identify and mitigate potential compliance risks.
	A Self-Service Supplier Management Portal: allows suppliers to update key details and track transactions, significantly reducing client offices workload, manual data entry, and errors.

UNDP’s commitment: 

GSSC Supplier Management team is committed to delivering secure, efficient, and transparent supplier processing services that meet the operational needs of UN partner entities worldwide: 

✓ Global Expertise: supplier transactions processed across 170+ countries backed by deep knowledge of international banking standards. 

✓Mitigation of compliance risks with automated monthly sanction screening of active suppliers in database against UN Global Marketplace (UNGM) and the UNDP Interim Sanction List. 

✓Dashboards and reports provide real-time visibility, transparency and control.