Rethinking Sourcing: How a Global Agrochemical Company Reduced Supplier Risk

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Client Background

The client is a leading European agrochemical company with global operations, focused on crop protection solutions and active ingredient production. The firm sources a key input ingredient primarily from a single Asian country and sought to mitigate concentration risk in its supply chain.

Client’s Challenge

The client wanted to diversify sourcing for one of its core active ingredients due to increasing geopolitical risk and supply chain bottlenecks in its primary supply market. The brief to Mordor Intelligence was clear: identify alternate sourcing countries and supplier firms with the capacity, compliance, and consistency to serve as viable second sources. The client was particularly concerned about ensuring regulatory alignment and shipment reliability in new geographies.

How Mordor Intelligence Helped

Multi-Year Trade Data Analysis

Analyzed five years of customs shipment data at HS-code granularity across multiple trade routes and origin-destination pairs.
Mapped exporter-level “who supplies whom” linkages, incorporating frequency, shipment volume, and destination patterns.

Supplier Identification and Filtering

Identified supplier firms with stable and significant export volumes, ensuring production bases matched the client’s technical and capacity criteria.
Overlaid trade data with in-house insights on production capabilities and regulatory standing.

Expert Interviews and Ground Validation

Conducted primary interviews with industry experts and export managers in target geographies.
Gathered inputs on capacity, pricing benchmarks, logistics constraints, and regulatory clearance timelines.

Custom Deliverables and Client Alignment

Provided detailed supplier profiles aligned to client’s procurement objectives.
Coordinated with the client’s sourcing team for early-stage outreach and supplier assessment.

Key Findings

Three alternative sourcing geographies identified with active trade volumes for the specified ingredient.
Five supplier firms shortlisted based on compliance status, production capacity, and shipment reliability.
Significant variation in pricing and logistics lead times across regions uncovered, aiding trade-off evaluation.

Impact Created

Diversification Pathways Identified: Enabled the client to move forward with three qualified suppliers that met both immediate sourcing needs and long-term reliability thresholds.
Procurement Risk Reduced: Helped the client quantify and compare risk-reward profiles across sourcing markets using data-backed trade visibility and regulatory overlays.
Faster Internal Decision Cycles: Equipped the client’s procurement team with structured supplier intelligence, accelerating due diligence and reducing turnaround time for internal evaluation and outreach.

Our Industry Coverage

Mordor Intelligence has supported global agrochemical companies and intermediaries through specialized supply and trade research tailored to active ingredients, crop protection agents, and bio stimulants.
Our services in the agrochemical sector include:

Supply Chain Analysis: Track supplier relationships, trade flows, and production linkages to identify bottlenecks and second-source options.
Opportunity Assessment: Discover emerging export hubs and regional production shifts that can serve as growth corridors or alternatives.
Procurement Intelligence: Evaluate sourcing viability based on price, capacity, trade consistency, and regulation compliance.
Production Analysis: Understand scale, registration status, and manufacturing capabilities of supplier firms across countries.
Pricing and Import-Export Intelligence: Benchmark historical trade data to identify shifts in volume, value, and supplier concentration.