Manufacturing · A multi-entity industrial group, shared supplier base

Multi-Entity Procurement Intelligence

The leak surfaces weekly

“We find the overspend at audit, a year after we paid it.”

Context

Where it started

Indirect spend sat across entities on non-standard vendor and category coding. One supplier charged different units different prices, and the gap surfaced at year end.

Action

What our team built

Spend was normalised onto one category tree with vendors resolved to single identities. Agents benchmark unit prices across the group and against outside references continuously, and raise off-contract buying, duplicate vendors and price drift as findings each week.

Results

What changed

TYPICAL RANGE10 to 15%

indirect spend savings

Weekly

findings, in place of annual

One tree

across every entity

Figure drawn from published benchmarks for this pattern.

The agent reads the whole ledger every week. Sampling a slice of it once a year is what audit already does.

Where does your AI programme actually stand?

Ten minutes, scored across the dimensions that decide whether pilots ship. You get the score and the gap map immediately.

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