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Reduce supply chain risk with smarter alternate sourcing
Supplier.io helps you identify, evaluate, and connect with trusted alternate suppliers that strengthen your supply chain, lower costs, and boost flexibility.
2025 Best Practices for Alternate Sourcing Report
Unlock proven strategies to strengthen sourcing and reduce risk.
Get our latest report to learn how supplier diversity programs are evolving to support alternate sourcing.
Only Supplier.io delivers the scale, speed, and accuracy you need to act quickly—and with confidence.
10M+
suppliers with real-time insights
350M+
data points on products, services, certifications, and more
$9T+
in analyzed spend to benchmark and assess supplier trust
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trusted sources powering our continuously updated database
Build resilience, reduce costs, and stay ahead of disruption.
Procurement leaders are navigating constant change, from inflation and trade volatility to supply shortages and shifting policies. Alternate sourcing strategies with small, diverse, and local suppliers are critical to meeting business needs and remaining competitive.
Your strategy for smarter sourcing
Forward-thinking organizations are expanding how they source. Whether you’re looking to nearshore operations, reduce supplier concentration, or improve cost control, Supplier.io makes it easy to put alternate sourcing into action.
Alternate sourcing strategies unlock key benefits:
- Greater flexibility in the face of market volatility
- Cost savings through local and regional sourcing
- Reduced risk by diversifying beyond primary suppliers
- Faster recovery from disruptions
- Enhanced innovation from new, agile suppliers
One platform to power your alternate sourcing strategy
Supplier.io’s market-leading Supplier Intelligence Platform gives you the data and tools to find new suppliers, expand current relationships, and measure your impact—all in one place.
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Discover trusted alternate suppliers
Search the industry’s largest database—10 million suppliers and counting.
Use advanced filters like location, product offerings, industry expertise, revenue, and more to find the right partners for your needs.
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Strengthen local and regional partnerships
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Expand opportunities with existing suppliers
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Analyze supplier spend and impact
Search the industry’s largest database—10 million suppliers and counting.
Use advanced filters like location, product offerings, industry expertise, revenue, and more to find the right partners for your needs.
Identify small and regional suppliers that align with nearshoring and reshoring goals.
Reduce logistics complexity and sourcing costs while building stronger community connections.
Your current vendors may offer more than you think.
Supplier.io reveals underutilized suppliers already in your network who are ready to scale and support new areas of the business.
Get a clearer picture
of where your spend is going and how it’s impacting the community as measured by income, growth, jobs, taxes, and more.
The results speak for themselves
Even modest localization efforts—like sourcing key materials regionally—can drive meaningful supply chain improvements.
82%
of companies that localized sourcing saw improved resilience.
Source: PWC
77%
achieved measurable cost reductions.
Source: PWC
46%
of supplier diversity leaders are partnering with business peers to reduce risk.
Source: Supplier.io
Insights at your fingertips.
Shed light on how organizations are navigating supply chain risk and volatility by strategically engaging small, diverse, and local suppliers.
Get actionable insights from leading procurement teams on 2025 best practice sourcing strategies for greater supply chain resilience and value, reducing your overall supply chain risk.