How to Analyze Value Chains in svEye: See Suppliers, Tiers, and Risk Exposure

What this tutorial is about

• Value Chain view shows how companies are connected across tiers.
• It helps you move beyond Tier 1 and see hidden dependencies.
• This tutorial explains how to explore suppliers and identify risk hotspots.

When to use Value Chain analysis

Use Value Chain when you want to:

• understand supplier dependencies
• identify hidden risk in lower tiers
• analyze exposure to business or operational risk

Typical users:

• supply chain & procurement teams
• risk & TPRM professionals
• resilience and continuity planners

Video walkthrough⬈

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What you’ll see in the video:

• how to open Value Chain view
• how tiers and suppliers work
• how to spot risk signals quickly

Step-by-step: How Value Chain works in svEye

Step 1: Open search

• Start with a standard search in svEye.
• Value Chain always builds on an existing search.

Step 2: Select a company

• Choose from millions of companies in our database.
• Or type a specific company name to jump directly.

Step 3: Confirm your selection

• Make sure you’re analyzing the correct entity.

Step 4: Run the search

• Launch the search to generate results and context.

Step 5: Switch to Value Chain view

• In the results, select Value Chain.
• The visualization shows supplier relationships across tiers.

Step 6: Understand Tier 0

• Tier 0 represents your searched company.
• All supplier tiers branch out from this point.

Step 7: Select supplier types

• Choose which type of suppliers you want to analyze.
• The context panel on the right updates instantly with:
  • event distribution
  • supplier type breakdown
  • where activity is happening

Step 8: Focus on Business Risk

• Looking for potential issues?
• Filter events under Business Risk to surface weak spots.

Step 9: Inspect individual suppliers

• Select any supplier in the chain.
• The number in brackets shows how many events svEye has detected.

Step 10: Review detailed context

• The context panel displays:
  • specific events
  • their distribution
  • relative importance in your chain

Step 11: Launch a new search from Value Chain

• Interested in one supplier specifically?
• Start a new search directly from the Value Chain view.

Step 12: Isolate the path with the eye icon

• Use the eye icon to clean the view.
• Instantly see the direct path to a supplier and its tier position.

How to spot risk faster in Value Chain

• Look for suppliers with high event counts.
• Pay attention to lower tiers with concentrated risk.
• Use Business Risk filters to prioritize investigation.

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