Manufacturing
Procurement Spend Intelligence
for a Mid-Market Manufacturer
Key Results
Days → Minutes
Analysis
Multi-Year Spend Review
8–12%
Purchasing
Savings Identified
3 FTEs
Redeployed
From Manual Reconciliation
The Challenge
A mid-market manufacturer ran a legacy ERP that did not communicate with its modern procurement platform. Comparative spend analysis across years of data took analysts days per request, and overhead costs carried unrealized reduction opportunities nobody could see.
Pain Points
- Legacy ERP and procurement platform fully disconnected
- Multi-year spend analysis took days of manual FTE work
- Overhead cost reduction opportunities invisible in siloed data
- Procurement decisions made on stale, partial numbers
The Solution
We built an agentic bridge between the legacy ERP and the procurement system:
1
System bridge agent
Connects legacy ERP and modern procurement data without re-platforming
2
Data normalization
Ingests and normalizes multi-year transactional data from both platforms
3
Comparative analysis
Automated year-over-year spend analysis, delivered in minutes
Timeline: 8 weeks from kickoff to production
The Results
Before
- Days per spend analysis
- Siloed ERP and procurement data
- Invisible overhead opportunities
- FTEs on manual reconciliation
After
- Minutes per spend analysis
- One queryable operating picture
- 8–12% purchasing savings identified
- FTEs on strategic sourcing
"Analysis that took my team days now runs in minutes — and it surfaced savings we did not know existed."