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How buyer requirements work.
Understanding how buyers find suppliers helps you see why source-backed evidence matters and how to improve your profile completeness.
The essentials
Four things every supplier should know about how matching works.
Buyers search by requirements
Procurement teams look for suppliers by what they need — product or category, country, and the evidence behind a profile.
Matching uses available evidence
OrenAtlas matches suppliers based on the source-backed evidence on their profile, not on self-promotion or paid placement.
Missing evidence means partial matches
If evidence is missing for part of a requirement, a supplier may appear as a partial match rather than a full one.
Better evidence improves understanding
Adding source-backed evidence improves profile completeness and gives buyers a clearer understanding of your fit.
Boundary
OrenAtlas explains fit — it does not rank suppliers as “best”.
OrenAtlas does not declare any supplier the “best” choice. It shows how a supplier's available evidence fits a buyer's stated requirements, and where evidence is missing. Buyers weigh that evidence and decide for themselves.
Improve how buyers see your fit
The evidence guide shows what to prepare so your profile is as complete as possible.