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A supplier can pass every check while its director sits on a sanctions or PEP list. DetectX®, now available to Coupa customers, screens each supplier together with its directors, owners, shareholders and signatories against sanctions lists, PEP lists and adverse media, and records every decision your auditors will ask about.
Suppliers › Rheintal Logistics SASUP-04182
Rheintal Logistics SA
New supplier request · Logistics & transport · Switzerland
DetectX®Screening panelWaiting
Company and 4 peopleNot yet screened
Supplier Health ScoreRisk criteria
Sanctions · PEP · your listsThreshold 85%
Illustrative, in Prospero style, not a Coupa screen. Invented names and data. Dashed areas: integration pattern to confirm.
Answer honestly. Every “no” is a gap an examiner or auditor could find before you do.
The questions cover what a name-only check at onboarding misses.
1Are the directors, owners and shareholders behind each supplier screened, not only the company name?
2Is every active supplier rescreened when sanctions lists change, not only at onboarding?
3Is a supplier screened again when a director, owner or address changes?
4Does a false hit on a common name, once cleared, stay cleared?
5Could you show an auditor, today, how a given supplier was vetted and who decided?
6Is adverse media about a supplier's people checked in the same place as sanctions and PEP?
Supplier sanctions, PEP and adverse media screening for organisations that manage their suppliers in Coupa.
Built by Prospero AG, a certified Coupa partner based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, DetectX® screens each Coupa supplier together with the people behind it, before onboarding, when its people change and in every recurring run, and records every decision with four-eyes review.
Coupa holds the supplier. DetectX® checks who is behind it. A new or changed supplier reaches DetectX® through its integration layer. The supplier and its people are screened, a match opens an alert your analyst works, and the result goes back as hit or no hit.
To confirmWhich Coupa events start a check, and where the result appears in Coupa.
One supplier, screened whole. The supplier is screened as an entity together with its directors, beneficial owners, shareholders and signatories. A match on any one of them surfaces on the supplier, even when the company name is clean.
Example data.
A supplier can be sanctioned without its name on any list. Under OFAC's 50 Percent Rule, an entity owned 50 percent or more, directly or indirectly and in the aggregate, by one or more blocked persons is treated as blocked, even when it is not on the SDN list itself. OFAC's compliance framework also puts the supply chain in scope of a sanctions risk assessment, and names improper due diligence on ownership among the root causes of past violations.
Treated as blocked under the 50 Percent Rule
Where DetectX® fits. Owners and shareholders are screened, so a sanctioned owner is raised as an alert. The aggregate ownership calculation stays with your analyst.
OFAC FAQ 401A Framework for OFAC Compliance Commitments, May 2019
Illustration of the rule as OFAC describes it. Invented example.
The same lists your customers are screened against. Every source passes through the DetectX® List Manager before the engine sees it. Each match is scored against the threshold you set, and a cleared match goes on the White List so it does not come back.
Checked before the contract, and for as long as it lasts. A supplier is screened as it is set up, again when its people change, and in every recurring batch run. A change on a list raises a fresh alert for the supplier it affects.
New alertA list update matches a shareholder of an existing supplier. It goes to the same queue, worked the same way.
Procurement sees the result. Compliance gets the evidence behind it.
Every supplier match arrives with what your analyst needs to decide it, and every decision stays decided.
The similarity score, the source list and the matched attributes are on the alert from the moment it opens.
How a name is scoredExample data.
The persons and organisations around a supplier are drawn as one map, so the same director behind two suppliers is visible.
Link AnalysisExample data.
MediaSearch runs on the matched person from the alert and rates every article for risk and sentiment.
Adverse Media SearchA known false positive goes on the White List after four-eyes review and stops returning on the next run.
Business Rule EngineNext run: known false positives are not raised again. Example data.
Supplier alerts land in the same AlertViewer as customer alerts, with the same workflows, rights and reporting.
WorkflowsThe screening result shows on the supplier in Coupa, so the decision to proceed is not a guess.
To confirm: where the result appears in CoupaSuppliers › Rheintal Logistics SASUP-04182DetectX®Screening panel1 match · for review
Daniel Oberholzer · Director · PEP listOpen in DetectX® →
Supplier Health ScoreRisk criteria
Screening lists from DetectX®1 match
Illustrative, not a Coupa screen. Invented names and data.
Most supplier checks stop at the name. DetectX® checks who is behind it.
Every supplier decision, on the record.
From the moment a supplier match opens as an alert to the moment it is signed off, every step is recorded against the alert: who acted, when, on what evidence and why. When an auditor asks how a supplier was vetted, the answer is already on file.
One supplier alert, as the record holds it · invented example
Director Daniel Oberholzer, screened on name and date of birth: Match · 93, above the 85 threshold. Name, date of birth and nationality match a PEP list entry.
The agent reads the match evidence and the supplier's linked parties, records its verdict, likely true match at confidence 0.91, and routes the alert to human review.
Role-based user rights decide who may claim the alert. The analyst holds the rights for supplier alerts.
The list entry, the linked people and companies and an adverse media search are checked. Date of birth and nationality agree with the list entry: confirmed, the same person.
Connections between linked subjects Adverse media on the same subject
Keep under closer monitoring: the supplier is added to the watchlist. Political exposure noted; no sanctions link found.
A second reviewer checks the proposed disposition and its justification, agrees with the evidence and the reason, and closes the alert.
Supplier alerts share the AlertViewer, lists and audit trail with every DetectX® module, so the record for a supplier reads like the record for a customer.
Three ways in, depending on where you are.
Each one is a conversation with the people who build DetectX®, with no obligation.
Watch your supplier types screened with a product specialist.
Bring your supplier volumes and your Coupa set-up. We map where DetectX® fits.
Speak with a compliance team already running DetectX®.
What procurement and compliance teams ask before they choose.
Supplier sanctions screening is the check of a supplier, vendor or contractor, and of the people who own or run it, against sanctions lists, PEP lists and adverse media before and during the business relationship. A match on an owner or director matters as much as a match on the company name, because sanctions follow ownership.
Connect a screening partner to Coupa so that each supplier is checked as it is set up, again when its people change, and in recurring runs. With DetectX®, the supplier and the people behind it are screened against sanctions lists, PEP lists, adverse media and your own lists, and each match opens an alert that your compliance team works to a recorded decision.
Prospero AG is a certified Coupa partner. Supplier records reach DetectX® through its integration layer, and each result goes back as hit or no hit. To confirm: the integration method, where the result appears in Coupa, and which Coupa events start a check.
No. Procurement sees the screening result on the supplier, and only a match needs a decision. That decision is made by your compliance team in DetectX®, where the evidence and the record live. To confirm: where in Coupa the result appears.
Because the risk usually sits one step behind the company name. DetectX® screens beneficial owners, shareholders, directors, authorised signatories and representatives, each in its own right, so a match on a director is found even when the company name is clean.
Under OFAC's 50 Percent Rule, an entity owned 50 percent or more, directly or indirectly and in the aggregate, by one or more blocked persons is treated as blocked even when it is not on a list itself. A supplier can therefore be sanctioned through its owners. DetectX® screens a supplier's beneficial owners and shareholders and raises a sanctioned owner as an alert. It does not calculate aggregate ownership percentages, so the 50 percent test still needs your analyst's assessment of the ownership structure.
Sanctions lists, PEP lists and your own lists, with each match scored against the threshold you set. Adverse Media Search also reads what is published about the supplier and its people, rating every document for risk and sentiment.
Before onboarding, when a director, owner or address changes, and again in every recurring batch run, so a change on a list reaches the supplier it affects at the next run. A remediation run can rescreen your whole supplier book when you need it, for example after a policy change.
A match your analyst clears goes on the White List after four-eyes review and stops returning on the next run. The decision and its reason stay in the audit trail, and White List entries are reviewed periodically.
Prospero AG, based in Vaduz, Liechtenstein, builds DetectX®, a financial crime compliance platform for name screening, adverse media, transaction monitoring, fraud detection and risk scoring. Supplier screening for Coupa customers runs on the same platform and the same AlertViewer.
How suppliers and the people behind them are screened, scored and recorded.
Download the brochureVideoThird Party Due Diligence in DetectX®A partner and its people screened, a match on a director, and the decision recorded.
Watch the videoInsightThe essential guide to effective sanctions screeningWhy the parties behind a company matter as much as the company itself.
Read the guideCoupa · DetectX®
A 30-minute session on your own supplier types, with a product specialist from the team that builds DetectX®.
