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Leading U.S. Utilities Company Sees Significant Improvements to Supplier Management

“Avetta’s solutions streamlined our supplier management processes, simplified insurance compliance, and gave us deep insights into supplier risks – transforming the way we manage contractors.”

– Health and Safety Manager, Leading U.S. Utilities Company

A Leading U.S. Utilities Company partnered with Avetta to digitize supplier management, streamline insurance compliance, and integrate ESG metrics, gaining better visibility and control over contractor risk.

The Challenge

The client provides reliable and affordable energy to customers across the western and central U.S., serving more than 730,000 residential and business customers.

The company identified inefficiencies in its supplier management program. Manual processes for prequalification, risk assessment, and compliance created significant challenges:

  • Mapping requirements against multiple master agreements and risk matrices
  • Managing insurance compliance, particularly for small, rural contractors
  • Transitioning from paper-based prequalification to a digital process
  • Collecting and integrating ESG data into supplier evaluations

At the time, the labor-intensive reviews placed heavy administrative burdens on both internal teams and suppliers.


The Solution


After evaluating multiple vendors, the client selected Avetta One to streamline its contractor management program. Change management was emphasized as the most critical success factor, and the client hosted 8 internal townhall meetings to align functional teams.

Avetta’s solutions included:

  • Universal Insurance Questionnaire standardizing insurance compliance for 80% of suppliers, with the remainder undergoing detailed review
  • Manual safety audits providing insights into supplier safety culture and performance
  • ESG data collection from suppliers to assess maturity levels and support community engagement and diversity initiatives


The Results


By partnering with Avetta, the company completely overhauled its approach to managing suppliers, shifting from manual prequalification to a digital process.

Avetta also enabled deep insights into supplier risks. These insights led to data-driven conversations with suppliers, which ultimately led to working much better with them to make sure everyone gets home safely.

Moving forward, the company seeks to expand its use of Avetta and is in the process of deepening its due diligence around suppliers’ financial and legal risk.


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Leading U.S. Utilities Company
Domain
Energy
Services
Energy Distribution
Customer Type
Client
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This U.S. utilities company partnered with Avetta to modernize supplier management, standardize insurance compliance, and integrate ESG metrics, resulting in improved visibility, efficiency, and safer contractor operations.


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