How to Turn Your LLM Into Your Supplier Analyst

Most procurement teams don’t have the time or data to build reliable supplier assessments every time a sourcing event launches. Supplier profiles are often inconsistent. The data varies wildly. And even when analysts pull it together, it’s usually outdated by the time someone needs it.

While building Supplied, we tested hundreds of supplier assessments across industries, geographies, market conditions, and sourcing scenarios. We learned exactly which inputs LLMs interpret well, which data structures yield accurate, repeatable outputs, and which signals deliver the most significant strategic value to buyers.

Today, you can use all of that learning instantly. Below is a single prompt you can drop into any LLM to generate clear, structured, repeatable supplier research in minutes.

Copy it. Paste it. Add your suppliers. You’ll get consistent, insight-driven analysis every single time.

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The Prompt

Copy this directly into your LLM, fill in your category, supplier, and buying company, and watch it generate a full market assessment complete with drivers, trends, and recommended procurement actions.

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Buying company: {buyingCompany}

Suppliers to analyze: {suppliers}

Industry or category context: {categoryContext}

Internal attachments included: {yes/no}

(If yes, the attachments contain internal performance data, contract summaries, risk information, or other company-specific insights about these suppliers.)

You are acting as a strategic supplier analyst. Your task is to produce a clear, structured supplier assessment for each supplier listed above. The analysis must follow this sequence:

1. Conduct the full external assessment first using publicly available information, industry signals, market trends, competitor activity, and reasonable assumptions based on typical supplier performance in the last 12 months.

2. Only after completing the external view, incorporate any internal information included in the attachments. Treat this internal data as company-specific intelligence that refines, adjusts, or adds precision to the final assessment.

Tailor all insight to the buying company and the industry context provided at the top of the prompt.

For the supplier, deliver the assessment using the following sections and only these sections:

Name:

Repeat the supplier name exactly as provided.

Overview:

Explain what the supplier does, its core capabilities, key products or services, geographic footprint, and competitive positioning. Base this on external information first; apply internal context only after the external view is established.

Previous 12 Month Performance:

Summarise operational, commercial, and service performance over the last 12 months using external signals first (quality, delivery reliability, innovation, disruptions). Then refine with internal performance data from the attachments if provided.

Financial Analysis:

Provide an external perspective on financial health—revenue trends, profitability, liquidity, investment activity, balance-sheet strength, and general stability. If internal financial insights are available, integrate them to sharpen the assessment.

Key Supply Risks:

Start with external risk factors such as capacity constraints, single-site exposure, regulatory issues, labour instability, logistics vulnerabilities, sub-tier risks, or sustainability challenges. Then, integrate internal risk data to make the analysis specific to the buying company.

Outlook (1–3 years):

Provide a forward-looking view based on market signals, competitor movements, investments, technology shifts, and industry dynamics. Integrate internal intelligence only after the external outlook is established.

SWOT Analysis:

Strengths: list the supplier’s main competitive strengths.

Weaknesses: list the supplier’s key limitations or internal risks.

Opportunities: list the future opportunities that could create upside over the next 1–3 years.

Threats: list external risks or market forces that may negatively impact the supplier.

Build the SWOT from external insight first, then refine it using internal context.

Always ensure the supplier name in your output exactly matches the name in the supplier list at the top of this prompt.

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Download the prompt here:

Supplied.app_AIPrompt_SupplierResearch.pdf

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How to Use This Prompt

1. Add your suppliers.

2. Add your buying company so the LLM understands relevance, risk, and strategic importance.

3. Add the category or industry context to ground the assessment.

4. Drop the whole prompt into any LLM — GPT, Claude, Gemini, or your company’s internal model.

5. Use the output for sourcing, segmentation, negotiation prep, SRM planning, and executive briefings.

You’ll get structured, repeatable supplier research in under three minutes.

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Supplied Does All This for You

Supplied is the Strategic Procurment AI-Network that builds these market assessments and full supplier strategies, segmentations, leverage analysis, category and supplier strategies, and monitors them automatically.

It analyses real-time market data, category and supplier segmentation, preferencing, and strategic signals, and generates actionable sourcing and supplier plans in minutes.

So instead of crafting prompts and manually updating research, Supplied keeps your category intelligence live, adaptive, and ready to act.

Join our BETA at supplied.app