Spend management aims to manage and reduce purchasing costs.  For this, it is important to analyze data about products, orders and purchasing conditions effectively.  This is not always simple.

Points of focus

Transparency and possible improvements are not realized or realized with great difficulty as a result of:

• Multilingualism.
• Unstructured import of purchasing orders in empty text fields.
• Spend data in multiple systems.
• Supply catalogue not digital.
• Supply catalogue not uniform in terms of structure and content.
• Commodities in the ERP are not connected to the information requirements.

What solutions?

Calago’s Data Classification is the basis for categorizing order rules from various systems into one classification.  Details, such as sub-type, colour, capacity etc. are made visible where required and separated for detail analyses.
Calago has also developed a Supplier Data Portal to standardize supplier data and structure it unilaterally. E-procurement systems can therefore be provided with high quality product information in an efficient way.
Even if a lot of unstructured data, such as websites, PDF and MS Word are used, this is first extracted and structured in order to then be able to import it to e-procurement or e-catalogue systems, among other things.

Available Calago solutions

• Data Classification
• Supplier Data Portal

Result

• Consolidation of purchase at commodity level.
• Extra consolidation due to fewer purchasing variables.
• More use of e-procurement.
• More efficient processing of suppliers data.
• Detailed insight into expenditures.
• Lower switching costs, stronger negotiation position.