Hellios develops communities of buying organisations to provide third and fourth party risk management processes by collecting, validating and monitoring supplier information.
Accurate and up-to-date information on suppliers and supply chains has become a fundamental requirement to meet the rising challenges of managing supplier risk, compliance, performance and development.
Hellios has unique expertise in providing total supplier information management solutions that provide the highest degree of quality in the most cost-effective manner for both buyers and suppliers.
Our five existing communities are indicated below but we are in the process of building new communities in the UK and internationally.
"By using JOSCAR we are intending to make it easier for our partners and suppliers to do business with us. It will streamline our assurance processes, minimise administration and enable our suppliers to gain access to our buying organisations."
“By using JOSCAR we hope to make it easier for you to do business with us. Working together with our peers in other defence organisations to access supplier compliance is a positive step towards minimising duplicated administration, reducing barriers to entry and improving the ease of doing business with organisations like us.”
"Leonardo have access to both the Governance Group and Technical Working Groups to shape the future direction of the JOSCAR programme. Additional support including training is available from the wider Hellios team when needed."
"By reducing duplication and having one source of validated data available to all buyers, JOSCAR Reduces the compliance workload for both Suppliers and Buyers. Suppliers are required to update and submit their information once a year."
JOSCAR provides QinetiQ with a standardised pre-qualification route, helping to reduce the cost and time associated with supplier qualification. JOSCAR gives QinetiQ and the defence & security industry a common approach to ensure suppliers are “fit for business” and remain a sustainable route of delivery”.
“ADS is the UK trade association which represents companies in the high-tech, highly competitive aerospace, defence, security and space markets. It championed the introduction of JOSCAR in response to members’ concerns about cost and administration burden of demonstrating compliance with customer requirements. Members achieve JOSCAR registration report that it simplifies compliance processes and makes it easier to do business with new and existing customers”
“As an ADS member, AACE is please that they actively support this cross-sector collaboration initiative and is hopeful it will offer opportunities to supply new customers. AACE looks forward to continued participation in JOSCAR and will work with Hellios to promote even closer collaboration amongst the buyer community, in terms of sharing knowledge and experiences to promote the particular benefits of engaging with specific suppliers to fulfil certain requirements.”
"Aish Technologies remains actively involved in JOSCAR attending governance meetings and conferences which enables us to put the supplier’s perspective to the group. Aish Technologies can see no reason not to join and would not hesitate to recommend subscribing to JOSCAR. Being seen by numerous buying organisations that use the system can only be beneficial to our business."
“By standardising third-party supplier’ due diligence, each supplier has the chance to unlock access to the whole banking sector through one streamline process.”
“Our good sense approach to business is no different to our relationship with valued suppliers. The Financial Services Supplier Qualification System makes partnering with Shawbrook simpler, fairer and more transparent.”
“FSQS is a living system that develops as the regulatory and risk landscapes evolve – we are already starting to look at how we might be able to further extend buyer cooperation to mutual benefit in the future. I look forward to seeing the system flourish further over coming years.”
Over time, LV= has benefited considerably from the amount of time we saved searching for supplier policy compliance information and knowing it to be validated and up to date. We also continually benefit from the connections that FSQS has provided through its Governance Groups and forum discussions and this has enabled us as a business to maintain best practices which can be validated by other leading industry professions.
“We joined the FSQS community to help simplify and improve the way we and our suppliers manage compliance and risk to our customers.”
“FSQS has provided OWB with independent audit of our working practices and a level of compliance and regulation that the marketing communications we design and deliver for our financial servies clients is robust, positioned effectively and cognisant of regulations”
“The Curve Group have recently been awarded a contract with one of the buyers on FSQS to help them to recruit their first Commercial Banking team – their standard turn around on contracts are 30 days+ which would have hampered our implementation plan and therefore the speed at which we could have sourced their team, but because of FSQS qualification, they were able to contract with us within 24 hours.”
“The Tracing Group were invited to participate in the Financial Services Qualification System (FSQS) by a major UK Building Society who would like to use our services to help them to identify customers that are deceased, and then trace their legal heirs and beneficiaries so that they can reunite them with their accounts. It quickly became apparent that joining the scheme would be an excellent opportunity to grow and improve our business. The process of FSQS accreditation encouraged us to take an inwards look at all of our processes and to determine if everything was robust. As a result, we improved some of our processes and introduced some new ones. The team at FSQS were knowledgeable and helpful, responding to queries over the phone immediately and with helpful insight. Their review of our responses was timely and thorough. We were delighted to have been asked to participate in the process, and we would highly recommend the FSQS.”
"Achieving FSQS certification gives our members and future members confidence that LINX meets their industry's supplier standards and due diligence specifications. We are pleased that this certification will make acquiring services from LINX streamlined, whilst giving our members confidence that LINX meets industry compliance and risk expectations...
The Hellios team were very helpful and always on the other end of a phone call for help and assistance, always answering queries quickly and clearly"
“The FSQS certification is valued by some of the largest purchasers in the financial sector and indicates that EFI has gone through the process required to demonstrate our experience and credentials to the industry. The certification supports our business growth plans, enabling us to expand the work we already do within the financial and banking sectors”.
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