Frequently Asked Questions

Panjiva is a new venture whose mission is to make it easier for companies of all sizes to do business across borders. As a first step, we are helping companies identify which overseas suppliers they can trust. Our approach to this task is unique: we leverage a wide variety of quality data sources to identify, evaluate, and keep tabs on suppliers around the globe.

Panjiva Alerts identify meaningful changes and unusual activities in your supply chain, on a monthly basis. By continuously tracking shipments from suppliers, Panjiva can provide you with an Alert when one of your overseas suppliers:

• Moves onto the Panjiva Watch List, as a result of suffering a year-over-year drop of 50% in volume shipped to U.S. customers
• Lands a significant new customer, thereby threatening your ability to get needed capacity
• Can be pushed harder on price, as a result of deteriorating customer relationships
• Is operating above capacity—a sign of possible compliance violations

To discuss Panjiva Alerts with a member of the Panjiva team, simply fill out this form.

The Panjiva Watch List is a list of suppliers that are at risk of going out of business. These suppliers have suffered a year-over-year drop of 50% or more, in terms of volume shipped to U.S. customers. Companies who work with these suppliers are encouraged to develop back-up plans in case these suppliers go out of business.

Panjiva Search is a tool that allows you to sift through hundreds of thousands of suppliers that are serving the U.S. market and quickly find the handful of suppliers that should be on your short list. You can find suppliers that have served specific U.S. buyers; you can find suppliers that are in a country of interest; you can find suppliers that have the areas of expertise you need. And you can do all of this really fast.Try it now.

There are a lot of supplier directories out there. However, those directories only contain information provided by the suppliers themselves (and, on occasion, third-party information on credit-worthiness). That information is not particularly useful in helping customers to distinguish between good and bad suppliers. Panjiva maintains a directory that supplements supplier-provided information with objective third party data. Each supplier has a detailed profile that evaluates it along dimensions that are important to our customers.

Search for a supplier that interests you either by product or material or name. Your search parameters will produce a list of suppliers from which to choose. From these suppliers, click on the supplier name that best fits your needs. Within the supplier profile, there are a variety of actions available to provide you with the best information to complete your supplier short list

• Areas of expertise Panjiva tells you which products a supplier has shipped
• Customers Panjiva tells you which customers a supplier has served
• Shipping History Panjiva tells you how much a supplier is shipping, and how frequently

Panjiva leverages several hundred data sources, including:

• International Oeko-Tex Association
• Social Accountability International
• Worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP)
• Fifty-five ISO 9001 auditing firms
• Forty-six ISO 14001 auditing firms
• Forty-seven OHSAS 18001 auditing firms
• Two GB/T 18885 auditing firms
• United States Department of Homeland Security
• Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China
• General Administration of Customs of the People's Republic of China

New York City and Cambridge, MA. We also have a presence in Shanghai and India.

Many millions of years ago, all of the world's continents were joined together as a single super-continent. Scientists call this super-continent "Pangaea" (pronounced Pan-JEE-ah). "Panjiva" is simply a twist on "Pangaea." The Panjiva team likes to think that it's bringing the continents—or at least the people on them—close together.

Panjiva was founded by Josh Green and Jim Psota.

• Josh Green conceived of the Panjiva solution in 2005 after seeing first-hand just how difficult it is to find good overseas suppliers. Josh is a veteran of The Boston Consulting Group and has masters degrees from Harvard's JFK School of Government and Harvard Business School, where he graduated as a Baker Scholar.
• Jim Psota is a veteran entrepreneur and is responsible for Panjiva's technical direction and product development. Jim has a masters degree from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and did research at Caltech and Intel Research. While acting as Panjiva's technology lead, Jim is pursuing doctoral work in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at MIT.

Josh and Jim continue to serve as CEO and CTO of Panjiva and lead an incredibly talented team.