The next chapter in supplier discovery- Changing what's possible with Beroe & Forestreet

Where and who you source from has always mattered. But in 2026, supplier discovery has the potential to become one of procurement’s most critical capabilities.

When markets are (or were!) stable, finding alternative suppliers is a useful efficiency lever. When markets are in an era seemingly characterized by ‘polycrisis’, whether driven by supply shocks, regulatory change, geopolitical risk, or rapid innovation, supplier discovery becomes a resilience requirement. The wrong shortlist of alternative suppliers could compound errors across the sourcing cycle, slowing down decision-making, and increasing your exposure to cost, continuity, and compliance risk.

This is why Beroe expanded its Supplier Discovery capability with the acquisition of Forestreet in September 2025 – to offer customers advanced, AI-driven discovery and deeper supplier intelligence through the Beroe platform.

From supplier lists to supplier intelligence 

Traditional discovery approaches tend to fall into two categories: 

• Static databases that are updated periodically and which struggle to keep pace with the emergence of new suppliers, new capabilities, and innovative, fast-evolving markets.
• Generic web searches that lack procurement context and often produce long, convoluted lists without the structure required to support sourcing decisions.

Beroe’s Supplier Discovery platform already solves a core procurement challenge. By rapidly identifying relevant suppliers across 200M+ company records, with AI-curated lists that include descriptions, firmographics, and contact information, teams can research, identify and shortlist a supplier in minutes, rather than the weeks of work it could have previously taken.

The availability of Forestreet’s capability within the Beroe platform extends the current standard Supplier Discovery into a new space of context-aware, category-led discovery for complex sourcing scenarios, with a vastly richer data package and deeper analysis to support higher-stakes decisions.

In simple terms, this is a shift from just finding a suitable sourcing company to quickly and easily building a comprehensive, interrogable market overview that helps identify the best suppliers for your specific requirements with a high degree of confidence.

One platform, two ways to search 

Beroe’s Supplier Discovery now supports two complementary modes: 

1) Standard Supplier Discovery (built for speed and repeatability) 

Ideal for: 

• Known categories with relatively stable supply markets 
• Standard re-buys or straightforward alternative supplier searches 
• Fast turnaround requirements 

This delivers an efficient, workflow-friendly experience with quick searches, strong filters (location, revenue, employees, classifications), clean supplier profiles, and the ability to shortlist and export potential supplier data quickly. 

2) Advanced Supplier Discovery (for confidence in complex searches) 

Ideal for: 

• New or “white space” categories 
• Dynamic markets with innovation and fragmentation 
• New geographies, evolving constraints, or unfamiliar regulations 
• Supply shocks where assumptions are unstable and time is critical 

Forestreet’s deeper Supplier Discovery has been designed to answer harder questions. Not just “who supplies this?”, but “what does this market actually look like?”, “what sub-capabilities exist?”, and “which suppliers match my very specific requirements?”. 

What advanced discovery unlocks in practice 

Advanced Supplier Discovery deepens the insight procurement teams can access by pulling from a much broader dataset including verified locations, company news, financial health and executive indicators, legal entity structures, and additional contextual data. It then indexes and links that data so users can interrogate markets dynamically across relevant metrics and useful visualizations such as topic mosaics, and feature and location maps.

This enables three practical outcomes for procurement teams: 

1) More targeted shortlists, fewer RFIs 

Teams can now narrow down suppliers faster by filtering across multiple variables and capability signals to move from broad discovery to a confident shortlist with less iteration. 

2) Category understanding at feature level 

Users can explore the market’s “language” and capability landscape, surfacing terms, sub-topics, and adjacent offerings. This is particularly powerful in new categories or at times when business requirements are evolving. 

3) Better supplier conversations, earlier 

Advanced Supplier Discovery provides more detailed supplier profiles. The goal isn’t to replace due diligence, but to accelerate the path to informed conversations. 

The net effect is that discovery work that historically took weeks of manual research can now be compressed, dramatically enhancing the context procurement teams need to make decisions. 

Choosing the right approach for the right job 

Advanced discovery is intentionally not “always on” as it’s richer, deeper, and (by design) more compute-intensive. Standard discovery remains the fastest route for everyday sourcing needs and should be used when you’re confident in the category, and the constraints are familiar. Advanced discovery should be used when your assumptions are uncertain, whether because the category is new, the market is changing, the geography is unfamiliar, or the requirements are unusually constrained.

5 ways to get better results with Beroe’s Supplier Discovery 

As with all AI-powered solutions today, the most consistent separator between great outcomes and mediocre ones isn’t the platform but the input, and the same applies to supplier discovery. Here are five ways to get the best out of your research:

1. Be specific, not generic. For example, looking for “emulsifiers” is a broad search term, as there are many different types. Whereas “medical-grade injectable emulsifiers” will change the result quality immediately.
2. Anchor every search in context. Industry, use case, constraints, and geography help distinguish between noise and relevance. 
3. Let keywords do the heavy lifting. Use AI-suggested keywords to refine and learn the capability you need. 
4. Refine with filters. Shorter lists are better if they’re built on the variables that matter to you. 
5. Align internally before you search. Clear requirements prevent rework and improve stakeholder confidence in the shortlist. 

What this means for procurement teams 

With Forestreet available via Beroe Live.ai, Supplier Discovery has become a scalable capability that can adapt to complexity. Procurement teams can move faster when disruption hits, explore innovation earlier according to their own requirements, enter new markets with greater confidence, and build stronger strategic options by improving decision quality at speed.

This new chapter in supplier discovery delivers intelligence-led sourcing that scales with volatility, not against it. 

Find the right suppliers faster with AI-powered supplier discovery, designed to simplify and scale your sourcing decisions.