S&P Global Panjiva
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S&P Global Panjiva is a supply chain intelligence platform that aggregates and indexes global trade data, including customs-derived shipment records, to provide visibility into importers, exporters, manufacturers, and the logistics providers that move goods between them. Founded in 2006 in New York by Josh Green and James Psota, the company was acquired by S&P Global in February 2018 and now operates within S&P Global Market Intelligence.[1][2]
The platform covers more than 9 million companies and over 2 billion shipment records, and is used for supplier discovery, sales prospecting, competitor tracking, supply chain risk analysis, and investment research.[1]
What It Does
Panjiva maintains a searchable database of international shipment records linked to company profiles. Users can search by commodity name, HS/HTS code, D-U-N-S number, or location, save searches, and receive email alerts when a matching company shows new shipment activity. Search results can be exported for sales and sourcing workflows, and the platform visualizes relationships between shippers, consignees, carriers, and other supply chain participants in network views.[1]
Company profiles combine shipment activity with firmographic information, including top customers and suppliers and, for over one million companies, contact details for key decision makers.[1]
Data and Methodology
Panjiva sources data from customs agencies and commercial information providers. According to Wikipedia, its customs-derived records have covered the United States, China, Mexico, Brazil, and a range of Latin American countries, with United States bill-of-lading data obtained through the Freedom of Information Act; the company also blends in firmographic data from partners such as Dun & Bradstreet, ZoomInfo, and Kompass.[2]
The company applies machine learning to standardize and link records across sources, and states that its transactional data covers 35% of global trade flows.[1]
Products
The core offering is the Panjiva Platform, a subscription web application for trade and supply chain research. Panjiva data is also integrated into S&P Capital IQ Pro, and can be delivered through S&P Global's Xpressfeed data distribution service, which the company positions for pushing leads into CRM systems or feeding company-level trade data into quantitative models.[1]
Buyers and Use Cases
Customers use Panjiva to find and evaluate overseas suppliers, to identify sales prospects among importers, exporters, and carriers, to monitor the sourcing activity of competitors, and to analyze trade lanes and supply chain exposure. The company also markets the data for investment research, including identification of investment signals from trade activity.[1][2]
History
Panjiva was founded in 2006 by Josh Green (CEO) and James Psota (CTO), who met in graduate school. The concept originated when Green, while searching for a reliable overseas display supplier, found trade information fragmented and hard to access.[2]
The company was named to Inc. Magazine's Inc. 500 list of fastest-growing private companies in 2013, and as of 2015 reported customers in 89 countries with offices in New York, Boston, and Shanghai.[2] S&P Global announced and completed its acquisition of Panjiva in February 2018.[2][3]
Landscape
Panjiva is one of the best-known commercial providers of customs-based trade data and sits within S&P Global Market Intelligence's supply chain intelligence offering alongside the broader S&P Global data portfolio. It serves the same demand for shipment-level trade visibility as other bill-of-lading aggregators and maritime data providers such as Sea-Intelligence and Vortexa, though its coverage of customs records is broader than shipping-analytics specialists.[1][2]