How to Use Y2 for Supply Chain Risk Management

Use Y2 to monitor named suppliers, ports, materials, and regions through a recurring research profile, then review its cited report before making an operating decision. Custom profiles start with Lite; new API integrations require Pro or Elite. Compare plans.

A useful first briefing answers one recurring question, such as which developments could affect a particular shipping route. The intelligence briefings workflow explains the broader setup; the example below covers supply-chain inputs and the API handoff.

Simple Setup

1. Pick the Risk You Need to Monitor

Start with one clear operating question:

• Which suppliers could be disrupted this week?
• Which shipping lanes or ports need closer attention?
• Which commodities or components are exposed to geopolitical risk?
• Which customer commitments depend on fragile regions, vendors, or routes?

Keep the first profile narrow. You can always add more profiles later.

2. Create a Y2 Profile

Create a profile in the dashboard or through the API. Use a name your team will recognize, a plain-language topic, and a schedule that matches the decision cycle.

Example profile:

name: Critical Supplier Risk Monitor
topic: Monitor supply chain disruption risks affecting semiconductor suppliers,
  rare earth inputs, East Asia ports, export controls, labor actions, severe
  weather, and cyber incidents that could affect production or delivery.
frequency: daily
scheduleTimeOfDay: "08:00" # UTC
tags: [supply-chain, suppliers, ports, semiconductors]

These are the same field names the API uses, so the profile you sketch here is the request body you will send in step 5. Weekly profiles also need a scheduleDayOfWeek, and monthly profiles a scheduleDayOfMonth.

3. Add Practical Focus Terms

Use names and terms that match how your company talks about risk:

• Supplier names and parent companies
• Facility cities, port names, and country names
• Materials such as lithium, copper, rare earths, chips, fuel, or grain
• Risk types such as strike, sanctions, export controls, flood, outage, bankruptcy, malware, customs delay, or route closure

Good inputs are specific, not fancy. "Port of Kaohsiung export delay" is more useful than "global logistics trends."

4. Review the First Report

Read the first report like an operating brief. Check whether it answers:

• What changed?
• Why does it matter?
• Which supplier, route, region, or material is affected?
• What should procurement, logistics, finance, or leadership watch next?

If the report is too broad, narrow the topic. If it misses an important class of risk, add that language to the topic or prompt.

5. Push It Into Team Workflows

Y2 profiles are not only for reading in the dashboard. After the profile exists, you can use the Y2 API to look up the profileId, list reports for that profile, and send the output into internal tools.

You will need an API key with the profiles:read and profiles:write scopes. New API keys are available on the Pro and Elite plans; existing Lite keys retain the compatibility limits documented in plans and limits.

If you created the profile in the dashboard, list your profiles and match on name or tags to find the profileId:

curl "https://api.y2.dev/api/v1/profiles" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $Y2_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

Or create the profile through the API — the response includes the profileId directly:

curl "https://api.y2.dev/api/v1/profiles" \
  -X POST \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $Y2_API_KEY" \
  -H "Content-Type: application/json" \
  -d '{
    "name": "Critical Supplier Risk Monitor",
    "topic": "Monitor supply chain disruption risks affecting semiconductor suppliers, rare earth inputs, East Asia ports, export controls, labor actions, severe weather, and cyber incidents that could affect production or delivery.",
    "frequency": "daily",
    "scheduleTimeOfDay": "08:00",
    "tags": ["supply-chain", "suppliers", "ports", "semiconductors"]
  }'

Then use the profileId to pull the latest report:

curl "https://api.y2.dev/api/v1/reports?profileId=$PROFILE_ID&limit=1" \
  -H "Authorization: Bearer $Y2_API_KEY" \
  -H "Accept: application/json"

The list response returns each report's ID, topic, summary, and generation timestamp — enough for alerts and dashboards. Fetch a single report by ID to get the full content, sources, and audio metadata. See the Reports API for the complete response shapes.

Easy Integration Ideas

• Procurement dashboard: show the latest report summary beside supplier scorecards.
• Slack or Teams channel: post daily BLUF sections to a supply-chain risk channel.
• Internal docs: publish each report into Confluence, Notion, SharePoint, or your team wiki.
• Incident workflow: create a ticket when a report mentions a critical supplier, port, or material.
• Leadership brief: use weekly reports as the source for an executive risk memo.
• Data warehouse: store report IDs, profile IDs, tags, and summaries so operations teams can trend recurring risks over time.

These are integrations you build with the destination service, not native delivery connectors. Use webhooks to receive a compact report-completion event, then retrieve the full report through the Reports API. Selecting Webhook replaces email and SMS for that subscription. For custom systems, use the Profiles API, Reports API, and API Workbench to copy tested curl, TypeScript, or Python snippets.

Turn a finding into a reviewable decision

For each material item, retain the source, event date, affected location or supplier, and a specific verification task. A possible downstream effect should stay separate from a confirmed operational disruption. For example, a report about a port does not establish that your shipment uses that port or will miss its deadline.

Use this review worksheet with your own evidence:

No matching results can mean a narrow filter or a coverage gap. Record what was searched rather than treating silence as evidence that every supplier is operating normally.

Keep It Operational

The best supply-chain profile is not a research prompt. It is an operating asset. Name the suppliers, routes, countries, materials, and risk types your team actually uses. Keep the schedule aligned to your planning rhythm. Review the first few reports, tune the topic, and then pipe the output where decisions already happen.

That is the workflow: define the risk, create the profile, pull it through the API, and distribute the intelligence to the teams that need to act.

For distribution beyond your account, follow the newsletter integration guide. To compare recurring briefing tools before building an integration, read Y2 vs Perigon.