Register a fourth-nth party

  • Release version: Australia
  • Updated March 12, 2026
  • 1 minute to read

    • Register fourth-nth parties after collecting responses from a third party by using the fourth-party registration questionnaire in the Third-party Risk Management application. With the fourth-party registration questionnaire, you can create multiple fourth-nth party records at a time.

    Before you begin

    Role required: sn_vdr_risk_asmt.vendor_risk_assessor

    Procedure

    1. Navigate to the Fourth-party templates tab of a new or active external assessment.
    2. Assign a Fourth-party registration questionnaire to the external assessment by selecting Add and then selecting a questionnaire.

      The questionnaire you are using for fourth-party registration can only be sent to third parties.

      You can use the fourth-party registration questionnaire that is included as part of the base system or a custom questionnaire that has the Fourth-party template classification and has a Fourth-party information metric category added.

      The third party must answer the first two questions in each Fourth-party information section. Don’t alter the first eight questions of each section because they’re used for mapping the responses to the new fourth-party record.

      For more information on assessments, see Assessing your third-party risk.

    3. When you receive responses from the third-party contact, navigate to the Downstream Suppliers tab of the assessment and review the fourth-nth party information that was collected.
    4. Review each fourth-nth party in the list and confirm if that party exists and select Create new fourth-party if it doesn’t.
      Table 1. Downstream suppliers list
      Field Description
      Name Name of the fourth-nth party that is associated with the record.
      URL URL for the fourth-nth party.
      Downstream supplier Fourth party record that is used after the fourth-nth party is approved and becomes active.

      You can enter an existing fourth-nth party by double-clicking (or using the keyboard shortcut) the downstream supplier field and selecting the magnifying glass icon .

      This action helps you view existing records to avoid creating duplicate records.
      DUNS number Unique numeric identifier for the single business entity.

      A DUNS number isn’t legally required for a business.
      Status Current state in the registration process: In review, Active, or Ignored.
    5. Select Approve to make each fourth-party record active or select Ignore to keep the record inactive.
      Once a fourth-nth party record is active, it’s fully registered and available for use in your risk management program.

      For more information on fourth-nth parties, see Monitoring your fourth-nth parties.