Secure, Streamlined Supplier Management for the Defense Industrial Base
Accelerate onboarding, enhance supply chain security, and mitigate supplier risk—without adding operational overhead. Exostar’s Supplier Management solution brings speed, trust, and control to every stage of the supplier lifecycle, helping you navigate today’s compliance and cybersecurity challenges with confidence.
What You Gain with Smarter Supplier Management
Get to production in weeks, not months.
Traditionally, supplier onboarding in regulated industries can take up to three months, with much of that time lost to manual vetting and back-and-forth communication. Exostar’s Supplier Management accelerates this process by granting access to a pre-verified network of over 150,000 trusted partners in the Exostar Community. Standardized forms and automated workflows streamline data collection and review, allowing buyers and suppliers to connect and collaborate faster. The result is faster time-to-value and reduced administrative overhead for your procurement and compliance teams.
Reduce duplication and supplier fatigue.
Say goodbye to repetitive form-filling and scattered data across disconnected systems. With Exostar’s “Connect Once, Collect Once, Certify Once, Share Many” approach, suppliers only need to submit information once—then it’s verified and securely shared across your partner ecosystem. This reduces supplier frustration and increases form accuracy, while giving buyers more confidence in the data they rely on. It also cuts down the internal workload of procurement, compliance, and supplier relationship teams.
Protect your supply chain from emerging threats.
Supply chain security starts with supplier selection—and Exostar makes cybersecurity a core component of that decision-making process. Each supplier completes a cybersecurity questionnaire developed by industry CISOs, ensuring that you collect relevant, high-quality data on controls and practices. The solution also supports Cybersecurity Compliance and Risk Assessment (CCRA) processes, automating the collection and sharing of risk data across stakeholders. With cyber risk built into your supplier evaluations, your organization stays better protected from threats downstream.
Easily plug into your existing tech stack.
Supplier Management was designed to integrate with major ERP systems, eliminating data silos and duplication. Whether you’re managing a few dozen suppliers or tens of thousands across multiple tiers, the solution scales to fit your supply chain’s size and complexity. Centralized data captured through Exostar’s Master Data Model flows into your systems of record, ensuring consistency across procurement, compliance, and operations. You get a solution that grows with your business—without sacrificing performance or security.
Frequently Asked Questions
Get quick answers to the most common questions about Supplier Management—how it works and how it integrates with your supply chain operations.
Exostar eliminates redundant steps by giving you instant access to a pre-vetted community of over 150,000 suppliers. Standardized forms and cybersecurity questionnaires streamline data collection, while automation handles verification and status tracking. This reduces onboarding time from months to weeks—helping you move faster without sacrificing security or compliance.
The platform embeds cybersecurity risk management directly into the supplier lifecycle. Suppliers complete detailed cybersecurity questionnaires developed by industry CISOs, and the platform supports Cybersecurity Compliance and Risk Assessments (CCRA). This ensures your supply chain decisions are grounded in validated, up-to-date security data—essential for compliance with DoD and NIST standards.
Yes. The solution is designed with integration in mind and can connect with major ERP and procurement systems to ensure consistent, centralized data across your organization. This helps reduce manual entry, avoids duplication, and supports seamless workflows across departments.
The platform includes automated recertification processes to ensure supplier data stays current, with annual prompts for updates and re-verification. If a supplier is offboarded, their data is securely archived in compliance with regulatory requirements—ensuring you retain audit-ready records without unnecessary exposure or risk.
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