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

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

Get verified supplier identity from its authoritative source

You can ask ECCMA to verify the International Business Identifier (IBID) of a company and add it to our eKYS database. You can then include the IBID 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.

Stop cleansing data

Research shows that 25% of records in a typical Supplier Master cannot be verified, and nearly 30% are duplicates. This poor data quality impacts the quality of AI-agent output, obscures spend visibility, increases management costs, increases the risk of supplier fraud.

ECCMA Supplier Identity Verification is a data-driven solution to these problems. Instead of simply cleansing your data, it transforms future data management. By verifying the legal identity of suppliers at the government source and formatting supplier identity data for the automated supply chain, your supplier master can be digitally verified and re-verified in real time via API.

Stop cleansing and re-cleansing data. Remove the risk and uncertainty of ordering from fake suppliers and those who impersonate legitimate companies with ECCMA Supplier Identity Verification.

Know Your Supplier Identity Verification powers the supply chain

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 Identity Verification?

Supplier Identity Verification through 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 Supplier Identity Verification integrate with my existing systems?

ECCMA Supplier Identity Verification provides standardized data, most simply via an ECCMA API. The standardized data is formatted to be interoperable and 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.