Tariffs are once again dominating headlines – rising costs, shipping delays, and reshuffled trade routes. But while the noise is constant, what’s often missing is clarity. How exposed is your supply chain? What will these changes cost your business?
If your team is struggling to move from speculation to strategy, you’re not alone.
The Real Challenge: Disconnected Tariff Data
For most companies, tariff exposure is tracked in silos:
- Buyers and category managers keep manual notes and spreadsheets.
- Risk teams focus on macro trade shifts.
- Finance logs cost increases, but only after tariffs take effect.
- And procurement rarely has a centralized view to assess supplier decisions before onboarding.
The result? A slow, reactive process that relies more on anecdotes than analytics—especially when trying to brief leadership or plan sourcing strategies.
Introducing the TYS Tariff Exposure Scorecard (TES)
Trust Your Supplier’s Tariff Exposure Scorecard (TES) was designed to address this issue.
TES is a real-time tool that consolidates key risk factors for every supplier in your network and generates a quantitative score to help you prioritize action and mitigate risk in your supply chain.
What TES Evaluates:
- Country of origin
- Product classification (HS/HTS codes)
- Active tariff policies
- Applicable trade agreement exclusions/inclusions
TES can also be weighted to match your organization’s specific sourcing priorities and risk tolerances.
What You Get:
✅ A clear risk score at the supplier and portfolio level
✅ A heat map to visualize exposure by region and category
✅ Real-time alerts when trade dynamics shift
✅ A repeatable, objective metric to communicate tariff risk across Procurement, Finance, and Risk teams
Whether you’re managing 500 or 5,000 suppliers, TES helps you proactively spot and manage tariff-related threats—before they hit your bottom line.
Why It Matters
Tariff volatility is here to stay. Your supply chain strategy can’t rely on scattered data, inconsistent reporting, or “gut feel” risk assessments. With TYS Essentials and TES, you get the tools to:
- Justify sourcing decisions with hard data
- Stay ahead of shifts in trade policy
- Communicate risks clearly to executive stakeholders
Want to know how your supplier base stacks up? [Schedule a demo] or learn more about [TYS Essentials] and our full suite of risk, compliance, and onboarding tools
