ScoutPro - User Guide

1. Introduction to ScoutPro

Welcome to ScoutPro! This guide will help you discover, evaluate, and connect with new suppliers globally. Let's get you started and find your first results in the next 5 minutes.
What is the purpose of the Supplier Discovery Web Application?

Veridion's Scout Pro empowers businesses to streamline their supplier discovery process and make informed, data-driven sourcing decisions by leveraging our powerful proprietary search engine built on one of the most extensive and accurate business information databases in the world. It enables companies to quickly discover, evaluate, and connect with suppliers globally, ensuring smarter and more efficient procurement workflows.

Who can use this application?

• Any user who needs to identify new suppliers or service providers globally

2. Getting Started

How do I create an account?

Account creation and activation is managed by Veridion based on request, please refer to your system administrator for more details.

How do I log in to my account?

Once you have confirmation that your account has been activated, please access the link for ScoutPro here and fill in your business email address.
Check your inbox for a one-time security code Enter the code in ScoutPro to access the platform.

Congratulations, you have now successfully logged-in to ScoutPro!

What are the key components of the app?

• Discover Companies - this is the main area where users can perform their queries
• Search Bar - AI based Natural Language input - please make sure you click on Generate Filters once you finished your input
• Filters Area - you can use this area to provide specific keywords and filters to adjust results (locations, employee count, revenue, D&I, …)
• Preview results - you can have some clear statistics regarding your search results such as: Geographical Breakdown, Industry Classification, Business Tag(keyword) Frequency, Supplier Type and Company Size
• Run Search: Once you are confident in your filtering criteria you can run the actual search, also please keep in mind you can decide how many results you need displayed at once, between 10 - 50
• Filter Templates - here you can save all your recurrent search filters in order to easily generate filters without having to recreate queries
• Saved Lists - This is where you will find all saved suppliers for the current project. All saved lists can be exported as .csv files.

How do I start a new project?

After login to Scout Pro use the + New Project button and create a new campaign

Using the Search Bar - How does it work?

ScoutPro offers users the ability to input directly in Natural Language their requests - eg. “I am looking for waste disposal services in Europe”
Once you click Generate Filters, an AI agent picks up your request and generates a filter based model using both user input and other related keywords.

Preview Results

Once you have reviewed your filters and are confident in the search criteria, you have the option to Preview Results. Here you can see statistic data such as:
Geographical Breakdown Industry Classification Business Tag Frequency Supplier Type Company Size

Generate & Review Results

The next step will be to run your search and review the actual results. Before you do that you can use the filter Toggle to have a better view on the Supplier Company Cards, and select the number of Suppliers that can be displayed in one view.

In order to see more information about the suppliers you can click on the “View details” for each card

Under Company details you can review the following information:

• Company Summary
• Company Attributes such as: Supplier type, Main Location, NAICS, contact details
• Revenue, Founded Year, Employees and how many locations this company has registered activities against
• Business Tags: Relevant to Keyword search and company profile match
• Product Description
• Product Snippet Matched: Relevant to keyword match for accurately identifying products
• Product page redirect link
• Social Media profiles and Company website

How do I short list suppliers?

Some searches can yield a high/low number of potential suppliers. Before building your final list we recommend you to:

• Review Search results and identify any false positives patterns - increase strictness,
• Make sure you have selected relevant locations - Main/Secondary,
• Add additional keywords for a better search refinement
• Exclude irrelevant keywords - eg. while searching for Waste Management Services, we can exclude “Software Providers” for Waste Management
• Confirm new results.

!! Once you are confident in your search criteria, we advise users to click on the Save Template button.!! This will save all generated Keywords for easy reference in the future.

Once you have confirmed final list, you can either select suppliers one by one, or click on Select All and click on Add to list

3. Working with Saved Lists

Please note that Saved Lists are only available based on each particular project. That means if you have multiple projects ongoing, like “Waste Management Services”, “Packaging Suppliers”, etc., you will only be able to see suppliers relevant to that particular project.

Once you have navigated to the Saved Lists menu, you will be able to navigate through your lists. On the right hand side you will see the menu options for each of the lists, once you click on the 3 dots. From here you can:

• View the list - this will open the ScoutPro Company cards view
• Rename
• Delete
• Export .csv file