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Create an ongoing and enterprise-wide risk management strategy which ensures third-party providers are a source of strength for your business – not a weak link.

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Ten Ways to Optimize Your TPRM Program
Prioritizing key risks to enhance operational resilience

Third parties are a key component of today’s increasingly complex, digital business eco-systems. Businesses tend to use a multitude of third parties in different ways to deliver goods and services and therefore failure of a third party to deliver is a significant source of risk.

Effective Third Party Risk Management (TPRM) is critical because the organization remains accountable to its customers and markets when third parties fail to deliver goods and services. Six in ten of our clients have suffered their largest reputational impact because of failures by third parties.1

Only a technology-enabled, enterprise-wide program can secure the areas of vulnerability and unite stakeholders across procurement, business, risk oversight and legal to understand where and how third parties are being used and whether that is acceptable. These groups must come together in an organized manner to drive a risk-based selection and management of third parties. Third party risk is a strategic priority whose success rests on four pillars: governance, process, infrastructure, and data. Our framework is laid out below:

1Third Party Risk Management Outlook 2020

Our deep experience supporting the design, implementation and execution of TPRM programs across industries and regions enables us to provide holistic solutions to your TPRM needs.

ElementKPMG team
Assessment and design of the holistic program
  • Target Operating Model Design
  • Internal Audit review2
Building block components
  • Procurement Function Integration
  • Supply Chain Integration
  • Risk Components including:
    • Cyber Risk
    • Regulatory Compliance Risk
    • Technology Risk
    • Tax
    • Corporate Intelligence
  • Contract Compliance
Technology enablement
  • GRC Implementation
  • Alliances with TPRM technology providers

Helping execute the program

  • Powered TPRM
  • On Demand Services
2Our internal audit practice also has experience assisting with audits of the programs and third parties.

KPMG recognized as a leader in risk consulting

KPMG is proud to again rank No. 1 across multiple risk advisory categories in the Source study: Perceptions of Risk Firms 2023. These categories include First Choice in Financial Risk; First Choice in Third Party Assurance; and 1st for Client Advocacy in Risk.

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