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Credit risk on your payables

If your supplier stops, your business stops with it

The engine reads your payables and shows you how much of your purchasing each supplier holds, how you pay them, and where your dependence is concentrated. Every supplier gets a score with a plain word and its reasons, and your team decides.

A subscription to software that reads your ledger. It sells no assessment of third parties.

The idea

What it does for you

In payables the risk isn't that you can't pay. It's that someone you depend on stops. A supplier in trouble can stop a production line, a branch or a whole contract, and the effect reaches your ledger weeks later, not on the day.

The engine reads the ledger from that side: each supplier's share of your purchasing, your payables aging, how you pay each supplier, and whether its invoices are sound. Every supplier gets a score from 0 to 100 with a word and reasons, the same way your customers are read.

Concentration is what turns a small problem into a big one. A supplier holding a large share of your purchasing matters far more than its score alone, so the engine shows the score and the concentration together.

How

How it works

  1. 01You

    Connect your accounting system through the connectors, or drop your payables file into the data pool

    At the start, then with every update
  2. 02The engine

    Checks incoming invoices: the stamp, the hash chain, and the same invoice booked twice

    Before any score
  3. 03The engine

    Measures each supplier's share of your purchasing, and gives it a score with a word and reasons

    In the same cycle
  4. 04Your team

    Reads the score, its reasons and the suppliers your purchasing is concentrated on, and decides

    Whenever it wants
See all the steps

From the platform

Your payables aging, and how you pay

The aging ladder from not yet due to over 420 days, your payment behaviour with suppliers, and the days of cash gap between collecting and paying. Captures from the platform on a sample company's data.

The Fkah payables aging and payment behaviour screen
Payables aging and payment behaviour on one screen.
The Fkah cash gap screen: days to collect against days to pay
See how many days of cash gap you carry between collecting and paying.

The engine, step by step

A motion graphic of how the engine reads financial accounts

Six steps: the invoices arrive scattered with the account statement, the engine reads and orders all of them, and out come the ECL reports and the counterparties whose position is financially sound, alongside the regulatory standing and records, ending in analysis that supports your decision.

1/6Scattered invoices

Invoices from different customers arrive apart, with no clear picture of the financial accounts.

Step 1 of 6

An illustration. The counterparty names and figures here are examples we wrote to explain the reading, not the financial accounts of Fkah or of any client.

Who reads this assessment

Each comes with a different question: the company sees each supplier's score and its reasons; the financial institution sees the picture of its client's payables that the client shared, with no assessment of the client's suppliers.

Companies

A reading of every supplier on your own purchase ledger, with the purchase concentration that can turn one name into a weak point in your operations.

  • A score for every supplier, with a word and reasons
  • Each supplier's share of your purchasing
  • Duplicate invoices caught before approval
  • A history of when the reading changed, and why

Financial institutions

A financial institution reads the purchase ledgers its clients share with it, with their consent: what the client owes and to whom, its purchase concentration, payables aging, and the invoices that failed the checks. It gets no assessment of its client's suppliers, and the decision stays with its credit committee.

  • A reading of your own portfolio, not someone else's ledger
  • Concentration, aging, and every invoice's check result
  • The engine decides nothing and sets no credit limit
  • No pooling of third-party data, and no assessments sold

Fit

Who it suits

  • Companies whose operations depend on a small number of suppliers
  • Companies with recurring purchases and long supply contracts
  • Procurement teams that review their approved supplier list regularly
  • Financial institutions reading their clients' purchase ledgers

Package

Subscription and package

This assessment is in the Payables package, and also in the Receivables + Payables package if you want both sides with your net position.

The subscription is set by package and tier. For details, contact the team.

Matching package

Payables

Your suppliers, payables aging, supplier findings and concentration, and supplier and sector reports. Connectors to your accounting system come with every tier.

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Questions about this assessment

What do payables have to do with credit risk?
The risk here is whether the people you buy from keep going. A supplier in trouble means late deliveries, sudden repricing, or hunting for a replacement in a hurry, and all of it reaches your ledger in the end.
Does the engine catch duplicate invoices?
Yes. Incoming invoices go through a check that finds the same invoice booked twice, and invoices that match on amount, date and supplier. It's a check on the document, not a judgment of the supplier.
What if the supplier is small and new to me?
Little data doesn't mean a bad score. The engine tells you the evidence is thin, and what's missing shows as missing data, not as a negative signal.
Will the engine tell me what to do with a particular supplier?
No. The engine shows the score, its reasons and the concentration it found in your ledger. The decision is your team's, because it's a business decision built on more than the ledger.
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