What does supplier compliance cost you today — and what do you save with osapiens.
The ROI is driven by two levers only: FTEs managing supplier compliance & incident collection (–50%) and annual external spend (–50%). All other inputs provide context and qualitative benefits — they do not affect the calculation.
€/ year
employees
What you'll need — the numbers behind your value case
These are the inputs behind the calculation. Real figures give the most accurate result — where a number isn't known, a best estimate works fine.
Annual company revenue and number of employees
Number of direct (Tier-1) suppliers — and if known, Tier-2/3 count
Number of due diligence frameworks applicable per supplier (e.g. CSDDD, LkSG, UK Modern Slavery, conflict minerals, sanctions, ESG)
FTEs across supplier risk, due diligence, and compliance — including whistleblower and NIS2 responsibilities
Current supplier response rate to compliance requests
Number of supply disruptions or incidents last year and average cost per incident
Average days to onboard a new supplier
Whether a separate whistleblower solution is in place
Whether NIS2 applies to the organisation
The more accurate the numbers, the stronger the business case. If a figure is unknown, the customer's best estimate is sufficient.
Your supplier landscape
size of the problem
Supplier base
Suppliers you have a direct contractual relationship with.
suppliers
Suppliers of your suppliers — part of your extended supply chain risk exposure.
suppliers
Share of suppliers who respond to compliance and data requests today.
%
e.g. CSDDD, LkSG, UK Modern Slavery, conflict minerals, sanctions screening, ESG ratings, sector-specific (PSCI for pharma). Each additional framework adds data collection and review effort per supplier.
frameworks / supplier
Resilience & speed
Production stops, compliance incidents, or sanctioned suppliers identified too late.
incidents
From first contact to fully qualified and onboarded.
days
Two contributing lines — together they make the tail risk visible.
a · Avg. cost per incident
€
b · CSDDD / LkSG penalty exposure
% of EU turnover
Incident cost × number of disruptions = annual disruption exposure · CSDDD/LkSG fines can reach up to 5% of global annual turnover for non-compliance. For context only — not included in the ROI calculation.
Internal effort & external spend
the 50% levers
Internal effort
Include all roles across procurement, risk, and compliance — supplier risk, due diligence, whistleblower management, and NIS2 obligations. Count part-time contributors too.
FTE
External spend
Consultants and third-party risk tools (e.g. D&B, Resilinc, EcoVadis). Include spend across procurement, legal, and sustainability budgets.
€/ year
Add-ons
quick wins
Whistleblower
NIS2
Annual saving with osapiens
€0
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ROI year 1
1 · Size of the problem
The Marelli lesson: a Tier-1 automotive supplier with no supply-chain visibility — individual disruption cases of €40–60k each, extrapolated across a year it was board-level money.
Hidden costs: third-party risk tools and questionnaire consultants are scattered across procurement, legal and sustainability budgets — and easy to overlook.
2 · Real value — your current spend
Internal team
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External tools & consultants
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Total annual cost of supplier compliance today—
Savings with osapiens
Biggest value driver
Internal effort automated
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External spend reduced
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osapiens investment — AE fills in
Annual SaaS license
− €/yr
Net annual benefit (from year 2)—
3 · Other benefits — not priced in, but real
Supplier response rate — today vs. with the osapiens portal
Today
30%
With osapiens
70%
See disruptions coming. Risk monitoring across your suppliers — sanctions, insolvency, ESG incidents — before they stop your production.
Faster onboarding. Suppliers self-register in the portal, documents and checks run automatically.
NIS2 compliance included. Cybersecurity due diligence on suppliers is built into the platform — no separate tool required.
Whistleblower channel included. Your existing standalone solution can be replaced — the osapiens platform covers whistleblower reporting as part of the same subscription.
Happier suppliers. One osapiens portal account works for all their customers — answer once instead of twenty spreadsheets.
Due-diligence ready. Supply-chain due-diligence regulations keep coming — the data foundation is already there.
External spend: consultants & third-party risk tools × 50% reduction — monitoring and questionnaires move into the platform.
Only these two levers drive the ROI calculation. All other inputs (supplier count, response rate, disruptions, onboarding speed, whistleblower) are shown as qualitative benefits and context — they do not affect the numbers.
All inputs come from the customer. No osapiens guesses — if unknown, it's the customer's best estimate.
