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6. Tailoring Third Parties Catalogues to Meet Your Needs

To align your supply chain management process with your organisation’s unique strategy and goals, the Define Your Settings section allows you to customise key catalogues. These catalogues provide the foundation for classifying, managing, and assessing third-party relationships effectively.


Tailoring Third Party catalogues to Meet Your Needs​

Customising third-party catalogues ensures that your organisation’s supply chain management approach is not only standardised but also tailored to its unique needs. This process ensures:

  • Strategic Alignment: Reflect your organisation’s unique risk tolerance, compliance requirements, and operational goals.
  • Consistency Across Teams: Establish standardised definitions and workflows to ensure consistency in managing third-party relationships.
  • Operational Efficiency: Reduce manual effort and eliminate ambiguity by predefining categories, classifications, and workflows.
  • Enhanced Risk Management: Focus on critical elements that matter most to your organisation by tailoring criteria to prioritise risks.

Key Objectives:

  • Develop a comprehensive inventory of all third-party relationships.
  • Identify critical providers with access to sensitive systems or data.
  • Map interactions and dependencies between third parties and your organisation.

Main Third Parties catalogues to Be Managed​

To customise your Third parties settings, you can edit the below catalogues.

By customising these catalogs, CSFaaS empowers you to implement a Third-Party management framework that is both efficient and perfectly aligned with your company’s objectives. The flexibility of these settings allows you to adapt quickly to changing requirements, ensuring your systems remain secure, compliant, and strategically aligned.


Global catalogues​

Some of these editable catalogues are more global and apply to the entire organisation. You should have made the configuration previously while setting your global environment:

  • Business Units
  • Data Classification Options
  • Functional Domains
  • Regions

Third-Party Specific Catalogs​

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Some of those editable catalogues are more specific to the Third parties. You should tailor them to fit to your environment or use it as default.

Third Parties IT Providers​

The "Third Parties IT Providers" catalogue lists the types of third-party products & services providers that may impact their IT environment, helping organisations categorise and manage their external IT service and product relationships.

Third Parties Tiers Levels​

The "Third Party Tier Levels" catalogue ranks third-party relationships by their criticality to organisational operations, guiding resource allocation and management focus.

Third Parties Types​

The "Third Party Types" catalogue segments third-party entities based on their relationship to the organisation, facilitating strategic alignment and risk management.