"Unilever Rus" set up automatic verification of counterparties using "API Contour.Focus"

2021: Transition to Automatic Customer and Vendor Reliability Check

Unilever Rus switched to automatic verification of customer and vendor reliability using the Contour.Focus API. This was announced by SKB Kontur on November 15, 2021. The service is used by the agent "Unilever Rus" - "Inmarco-Trade," through which the company sells ice cream under various trademarks. Thanks to the service, Inmarco-Trade was able to reduce the time for concluding contracts, eliminate possible errors due to the human factor and improve the quality of counterparty data in its accounting system.

Шаблон:Quote 'author = said Tatyana Nesterova, Manager of Information and Analytical Department for Ice Cream Business Support and Sales "Unilever Rus."

The establishment of counterparties and their verification now take place in three stages:

1. The questionnaire is completed in the application. To do this, it is enough to enter the tax ID number of the counterparty. It is automatically pulled up using the Contour.Focus API. The form of the questionnaire takes no more than a minute.

2. The application starts automatic verification of the counterparty for reliability (among the basic criteria: enforcement proceedings, court cases, etc.). Depending on the degree of risk, each counterparty is assigned a color marker - green, yellow, red. Red indicates a low level of trustworthiness, yellow means that risk realization is likely, green - everything is in order, you can cooperate.

3. A request is generated in the application. If the system puts a yellow or red marker, additional validation is required within the company, if the counterparty is assigned a green marker, the data immediately enters the account system. Thus, only those partners who really need it get into the security service for in-depth verification.

Any change in terms and conditions of cooperation with counterparties starts automatic updating of company data.

{{quote 'author = noted Elena Kataeva, API Project Manager, Contour.Foca |

In addition to the basic test scenarios, the company used one atypical. On the basis of the API Contur. Focus developed a mobile application, where current information about the state of legal entities and individual entrepreneurs is always available. It is actively used by managers and sales representatives, because they decide on cooperation in the "fields," during negotiations. I can say that such a verification scenario is in demand by many large companies, but is not often implemented. In this sense, it is interesting to study the experience of Inmarco-Trade LLC and the result that the company received: the time for evaluating counterparties has decreased, and the sales network, on the contrary, has increased,}}