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of stress-tested suppliers that would need additional borrowing to fund 50 % revenue growth

What matters most, in his view, is treating supplier financial health as an ongoing consideration rather than a one-off check performed at contract signature, and stress-testing supplier capacity before commitments are made, rather than after problems emerge.

Each of those steps maps closely onto RapidRatings’ s own product set. Building an accurate universe of critical suppliers, and understanding where each one sits on the risk spectrum, is precisely what the financial health rating is designed to do, using suppliers’ own financial statements rather than surface-level indicators. Because so many of the suppliers