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What is Supply Chain Updates?

Supply Chain Updates is a feature in Simvia that lets you request your direct suppliers to review and update their supply chain data — including organisations, tiers, and products — directly in the platform. Once a supplier submits their update, you can review the proposed changes before applying them to your account.

This is a new way of working in Simvia. If you've previously managed supply chain data through Excel files or email exchanges, this workflow replaces that process with a structured, in-platform collaboration between you and your suppliers.

Why supply chain data needs to stay current

A supply chain is rarely static. Suppliers add new sub-suppliers, relationships shift, and organisations change over time. In Simvia, your supply chain data underpins compliance work — it determines which organisations receive compliance requests and which products they're linked to.

When that data is outdated, two common problems arise:

  • Compliance requests go to organisations that are no longer relevant
  • New suppliers or tiers are missed entirely, leaving gaps in your compliance picture

Keeping supply chain data accurate has traditionally required manual effort: asking suppliers for updates, receiving Excel files, and reconciling differences by hand. Supply Chain Updates replaces this with a shared workflow that both you and your suppliers complete inside Simvia.

How it works

The process has three steps:

  1. You send a request to one or more direct suppliers, asking them to confirm or update their supply chain. You can specify which products the request relates to and whether to pre-fill the request with their current known data in Simvia.
  2. Your supplier responds by editing their supply chain directly in Simvia or uploading an Excel file. They can add, remove, or adjust organisations across multiple tiers before submitting.
  3. You review and apply the update. Simvia shows you a clear overview of what has been added, removed, or left unchanged — so you know exactly what will change in your account before you confirm.

Key concepts

Multi-tier requests — Supply Chain Updates captures the full depth of a supplier's supply chain, not just their direct connections. You can request data across multiple tiers, per product.

Pre-filled requests — When sending a request, you can choose to pre-fill it with the supplier's current data in Simvia. The supplier then only needs to update what has changed, rather than starting from scratch.

Flexible response options — Suppliers can respond by editing directly in Simvia or by importing an Excel file. 

Change overview — Before you apply any update, Simvia presents a side-by-side view of additions, removals, and unchanged organisations. Nothing changes in your account until you explicitly confirm.

Automatic deactivation — Organisations that are not included in the updated supply chain are automatically deactivated, keeping your data clean without requiring manual follow-up.