During the past four years, use of analytics to mitigate third-party supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse risk has jumped to 35 percent in 2017 from 25.2 percent in 2014, according to a Deloitte poll. See more responses from over 3,220 professionals who participated in a Deloitte Dbriefs webcast titled, “Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse: The growing role of forensics and analytics,” and shared their thoughts on supply chain forensics and analytics.

1. Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse:
The growing role of forensics and analytics
Deloitte poll results from June 2017

2. 2Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse: The growing role of forensics and analyticsCopyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.
Methodology
3,220+ professionals participated in a Deloitte
Dbriefs webcast, “Supply chain fraud, waste, and
abuse: The growing role of forensics and analytics”
on June 28, 2017 about their use of supply chain
forensics and analytics. Respondents work in
industries including consumer and industrial
products (28.4 percent); financial services (20
percent); technology, media and telecommunications
(9.7 percent); life sciences and health care (7.4
percent); and energy and resources (6.7 percent).
Answer rates differed by question.

3. 3Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse: The growing role of forensics and analyticsCopyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.
Comparing results from 2014-2017
Has your company experienced fraud, waste or abuse in its
supply chain during the past 12 months?
31.4%
22.0%
28.9%
25.6%
31.3%
24.6%
31.6%
26.7%
Yes No
2014 2015 2016 2017
Don’t know/NA= 46.6% in 2014; 45.5% in 2015; 44.1% in 2016; 41.7% in 2017
Votes secured per year= 3,056 in 2014; 2,596 in 2015; 3,115 in 2016; 3,185 in 2017

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Comparing results from 2014-2017 by Industry
Has your company experienced fraud, waste or abuse in its
supply chain during the past 12 months?
44.7%
35.1%
39.6%
39.1%
26.5%
39.6%
35.9% 34.7%
23.6%
21.2%
24.9%
28.4%
33.2%
34.6%
36.9%
26.3%
36.9%
29.1%
31.3%
31.0%33.0% 31.9%
33.7% 31.9%
2014 2015 2016 2017
CIP E&R FSI LSHC TMT Average

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How would you describe your organization's use of analytics to
mitigate fraud, waste and abuse risks in its supply chain?
Don’t know/NA= 39.9% in 2014; question not asked in 2015; 37.8% in 2016; 32.7% in 2017
Votes secured per year= 2,614 in 2014; question not asked in 2015; 3,233 in 2016; 3,227 in 2017
Comparing results from 2014, 2016 and 2017
7.5%
17.7%
13.0%
21.9%
8.6%
20.6%
13.7%
19.3%
9.8%
25.2%
14.9%
17.4%
Advanced-we use analytics to manage our third-party
(i.e., suppliers, shippers) relationships and forecast
for financial risks like fraud, waste and abuse
Building-we only use analytics to manage our third-
party (i.e., suppliers, shippers) relationships
Lacking-we have analytics software, but are still
learning to use it
Absent-we don't use analytics to manage financial risk
in our supply chain
2014 2016 2017

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Which employee group presents the largest supply chain fraud,
waste, and abuse risk for your organization?
Don’t know/NA= question not asked in 2014 or 2015; 38.9% in 2016; 27.8% in 2017
Votes secured per year= question not asked in 2014 or 2015; 3,148 in 2016; 3,091 in 2017
Comparing results from 2016 and 2017
26.0% 24.7%
10.3%
31.6%
27.5%
13.1%
Project managers
and invoice
approvers
Procurement Accounts Payable
2016 2017

7. 7Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse: The growing role of forensics and analyticsCopyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.
27.4% Don’t know/not applicable; question only asked in 2017
Votes received: 2,786
Does your organization have an inventory of your third parties,
including the data that they have access to?
39.2%
Yes
33.4%
No

8. 8Supply chain fraud, waste, and abuse: The growing role of forensics and analyticsCopyright © 2017 Deloitte Development LLC. All rights reserved.
Does your organization analyze unpaid invoices for evidence of
supply chain fraud, waste and abuse prior to payment?
Comparing results from 2016 and 2017
Don’t know/NA= question not asked in 2014 or 2015; 49% in 2016; 37.5% in 2017
Votes secured per year= question not asked in 2014 or 2015; 2,660 in 2016; 2,767 in 2017
27%
24%
38.6%
23.9%
Yes
No
2016 2017

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