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Your supply chain already runs on vendor agents. Protect every call.

Tier-1 to Tier-3 supplier agents already write into your ERP, EDI, quality and logistics systems. Prove7 protects the agent your vendor runs — without touching their servers. Register it once, mint a scoped key, and every call it makes to your tools is identity-checked, scoped, and logged — with a kill switch that works in seconds.

One OEM. Hundreds of vendor agents. Three tiers.

Every tier’s agents call your systems today — mostly through shared EDI accounts nobody can see inside. With Prove7, each one calls through the Protected Gateway instead, on your side of the boundary. Nothing migrates; the vendor’s agent keeps running on the vendor’s servers.

Tier 1 · Systems suppliers

Seating JIT-sequencing agents post delivery sequence, quantities and ASNs into your ERP / EDI. Braking-systems quality agents upload PPAP and 8D packages to your quality portal. High authority, high blast radius.

Tier 2 · Component suppliers

ECU production-status agents read build forecasts and post line-down alerts. Wiring-harness logistics agents book dock slots and yard times. Mostly reads — and over-scoped reads leak pricing and other suppliers’ volumes.

Tier 3 · Materials suppliers

Semiconductor allocation agents commit chip allocation against your forecast. Steel & resin capacity agents confirm capacity against MRP. Phantom commitments here ripple up every tier.

Your systems behind the gateway

ERP / MRP, JIT / JIS sequencing & EDI flows, the quality portal (PPAP · 8D · SPC), engineering PLM — the crown jewels — and logistics & yard scheduling. Every vendor call to any of them passes the same gates.

The Protected Gateway, on your side of the boundary

Identity — each vendor agent registered once, scoped key minted. Intent & scope — named tools, plants and part numbers, nothing else. Inline policy — every call checked before it lands. Data guards — IP, CAD and PII filtered both directions. A live trust score that demotes a drifting agent to supervised. A sealed, replayable log. And a kill switch that works per agent, per supplier, or per tier — in seconds.

Tier by tier: the risk, and what Prove7 enforces

Tier-1 JIT-sequencing agent

Unprotected: a shared EDI account can touch every PO — mis-sequencing or tampering stops the line.
With Prove7: scoped to its own part numbers and plant; quantity changes beyond tolerance wait for a human gate; every write sealed.

Tier-1 quality (PPAP / 8D) agent

Unprotected: a prompt-injected document turns the upload path into CAD / IP exfiltration.
With Prove7: data guards scan both directions — drawings and PII cannot leave; uploads land only in the quality portal.

Tier-2 production-status agent

Unprotected: over-scoped reads expose pricing and other suppliers’ volumes.
With Prove7: read-only, field-level scope — its own programs, no pricing, no cross-supplier data; every read logged.

Tier-3 chip allocation agent

Unprotected: phantom capacity and fake commitments ripple up every tier.
With Prove7: cryptographic identity per agent; a low trust score routes commitments to human approval before they bind.

Recall or stop-ship?

One kill switch — revoke a single agent, a supplier, or a whole tier in seconds. The sealed record shows exactly who did what, across all three tiers, for the regulator and the recall file.

Before / after

Frequently asked

How do you protect a supplier’s agent without touching their servers?

Each vendor agent is registered once on your side of the boundary and receives its own cryptographic identity and a scoped key. Every call it makes to your tools passes identity, intent, scope, policy and data-guard checks inline, lands on a sealed record, and can be revoked in seconds — nothing is installed on the supplier’s infrastructure.

What happens during a recall or stop-ship event?

One kill switch revokes a single agent, a supplier, or a whole tier in seconds — and the sealed record shows exactly which agent did what, across all three tiers.

Can a supplier’s agent see other suppliers’ data?

No. Scope is field-level and per agent: its own part numbers, programs and plants only — no pricing, no cross-supplier volumes. Every read and write is logged on a replayable, tamper-evident record.

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