Methodology · Watcher
Watcher — supply chain picture
Watcher makes procurement risk spatial and relational: portfolio suppliers, tier-2 upstream, ports, vessels, sanctions and market signals in one graph — mirrored on the map with freight routes. Portfolio upload is the entry point; without upload a gallium demo picture runs.
Material path intelligence
Material first — not supplier discovery
Watcher does not replace a partner network for tier-N discovery. It delivers what CRMA Art. 24 teams need when suppliers stay silent: structural upstream view, portfolio coverage and signals on the material path — honestly labelled as reference topology.
What we deliberately do differently
Supplier discovery
“Who supplies whom?” across tiers — data-intensive, partner ecosystem. Not our core product.
Material path intelligence
“Where does the material come from?” — reference chain + your portfolio + coverage gaps. Decision support, not your ERP supplier tree.
Structure path
Reference mines, refineries, ports — curated, provenance-tagged, visible in the graph as REF/FUSION.
Coverage mirror
Match against the ZRG reference catalogue: missing providers, alternatives, correspondence templates.
Signals on the path
Fusion from pipeline, sanctions and market along the route — not claimed sub-tier relationships.
Supply Chain Graph
LIVESuppliers
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Entities
14
Alerts
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Step 1
Graph from portfolio & reference data
After CSV/XLSX import, nodes are created for countries, suppliers, materials and BOM outputs. Coverage gaps appear as ghost nodes — edges show exposure paths, updated live when the portfolio changes.
Step 2
Automatic data fusion
Port index, trade flows, sanctions lists, market signals and reference supply chain are fused in — with provenance per node and edge.
Step 3
Map picture
The same chain on OpenStreetMap: tier-2 → export port → vessel → destination port → supplier → production. Routes green/yellow/red, pulse only on congestion, sanctions or detected patterns.
Step 4
Pattern detection
Concentration, geo clusters, port congestion and predictive windows — highlighted in the graph and on affected map routes.
Step 5
Tier-2/3 supply chain
Reference mines, refineries, ports and HS-code trade flows extend your portfolio network — upstream dependencies become visible without cluttering the layout.
Step 6
Temporal graph · 13 weeks
Weekly snapshots show when alerts and score changes first appeared in the chain.
Step 7
Saved view
Save selection, patterns, timeline offset and map view as a bookmark — share the state via link.
Step 8
SSE live stream
Graph and map receive patches via server-sent events — new signals without reload.
Demo vs live data
Without a portfolio upload the terminal shows a demo graph for gallium with simulated fusion signals. With an imported portfolio, nodes, patterns, gaps and tier chain are computed from your supplier data — same logic as in the Risk Terminal.
The Intelligence Graph is decision support based on market and portfolio data. Tier-2/3 reference nodes use seed data and CRMA reference catalogues — additional due diligence remains required.