Supplier Identity Verification for the digital, AI-enabled supply chain

Building Supply Chain trust based on verified, standardized, authoritative data

Data quality defines supply chain performance

Yet research shows that 25% of supplier records in a typical Supplier Master cannot be verified, and nearly 30% are duplicates.

These errors create delay to AI-agent deployment, obscure spend visibility, increase management costs, increase the risk of supplier fraud.

ECCMA Know Your Supplier (eKYS) addresses those problems through access to verified, standardized, authoritative data on company legal identity.

Supplier Identity Verification through ECCMA Know Your Supplier (eKYS) ensures you have access to cleansed, trusted, and interoperable supplier master data.

You can ask ECCMA to verify the International Business Registration Number (IBRN) of a company and add it to our eKYS database, You can then include the IBRN in your supplier master record.

To ask us to verify a company’s identity you will need the company’s legal name, location, website and local business registration number (if available). You will also be asked to provide contact information as the requestor of data.

Ask ECCMA to carry out Supplier Identity Verification on your supplier master data.

Supply chain confidence starts with verified supplier identity

Prevent AP Fraud

Supplier Optimization

Fix Master Data

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What is ECCMA Know Your Supplier (eKYS)?

ECCMA Know Your Supplier (eKYS) is a global supplier identity verification and data quality solution. It helps organizations verify supplier information (legal identity and additional data) using authoritative government business register data. Built on international standards such as ISO 8000 (data quality) and ISO 25500 (supply chain interoperability and integration), eKYS enables cleaner supplier master data, reduces fraud risk, and improves procurement performance

Why is Supplier Identity Verification important?

Supplier identity verification ensures that your suppliers are who they claim to be. Studies show that around 25% of supplier records in corporate databases cannot be positively verified, and up to 30% are duplicate entries. This leads to inaccurate spend analysis, compliance gaps, and exposure to accounts payable fraud. ECCMA eKYS addresses these issues through verified legal identity data sourced directly from official business registers.

What is the ISO 8000 Data Quality Standard?

ISO 8000 defines international best practices for ensuring the accuracy, completeness, and traceability of data. ECCMA, a founding authority on ISO 8000, applies ISO standardization to supplier master data—enabling it to be verified it for seamless integration within ERP and procurement systems.

What is the ISO 25500 International Business Identifier (IBID)?

ISO 25500 introduces the International Business Identifier (IBID), composed of three core elements that uniquely identify a business: its legal registration number, official legal name, and date of formation. ECCMA uses the IBID to verify supplier identity and track supplier identity across worldwide jurisdictions with confidence and consistency.

How does ECCMA access supplier data to verify supplier identity?

ECCMA directly accesses government business registers worldwide, via API, bulk data access and its expert research team, with access to over 300 million authoritative business records to support the standardization, cleansing and verification of supplier data. Verified supplier legal identity data in eKYS is authoritative, traceable, and compliant with ISO data standards (ISO 8000 and ISO 25500).

How does ECCMA monitor supplier status changes?

On behalf of its subscriber members, ECCMA continuously monitors more than 115,000 supplier entities for any change in their legal registration status (for example, from active to inactive). Members receive automated alerts whenever a supplier’s legal standing changes, helping prevent fraud and maintain data integrity across their supplier master.

How does ECCMA eKYS integrate with my existing systems?

Because eKYS data is standardized and formatted to be interoperable, it can be easily integrated into supplier onboarding workflows and ERP or procurement systems. It also supports low-cost batch processing for retroactive validation of existing supplier master data, improving overall supply chain visibility.

Why Know Your Supplier?

For years, Know Your Customer (KYC) processes in the banking industry have sought to verify corporate identity and prevent financial crime. ECCMA applies advanced supplier identity verification to supply chains through its Know Your Supplier (eKYS) program. ECCMA Know Your Supplier (eKYS) enables organizations to improve the quality and integrity of the data they hold on both local and global suppliers.