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The company\u2019s large procurement organization is in constant negotiations to update annual contracts for each item it purchases.<\/p>\n<p>Procurement data about its vendors and the products they supply, including pricing and negotiation details, are stored primarily in disconnected SAP systems throughout the company. Without integrated procurement data and modern analytics tools, the company endured a long, arduous process of collecting and consolidating data onto complicated Excel spreadsheets to manage the procurement process. They struggled to:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Identify all the products and prices supplied by a given vendor across the entire organization, including newly acquired companies<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Calculate the average cost of each product<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Know when to renegotiate pricing based on changing commodity prices<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-size: 20px;\">Measure the performance of its procurement organization<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The company needed a faster way to capture these insights to ensure the best pricing for its raw materials and manage the complexity of negotiating with thousands of vendors in a globally connected economy.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">High-performance data and analytics drive procurement workflows<\/h2>\n<p>They teamed with Wavicle to develop a state-of-the-art procurement analytics platform in the cloud. The goal was to consolidate data into a single location and develop a portal that drives workflows to support vendor-led and product-led negotiations.<\/p>\n<p>We built the portal on the concept of \u201cguided discovery,\u201d allowing users to select which workflow to engage and then use a universal filter to view data by various criteria, including a time frame, product, or vendor. We created more than 20 visualizations, which users can incorporate into their own custom screens. We put a lot of effort into performance to ensure visualizations come back in less than three seconds, or less than three clicks.<\/p>\n<p>The solution is built on an AWS platform using Talend to integrate data from multiple SAP systems as well as external data feeds, such as commodity pricing, into a data lake on AWS S3. From there, it\u2019s loaded into an Amazon Redshift data warehouse and Tableau is used for visualizations.<\/p>\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Maximizing cost savings on thousands of products<\/h2>\n<p>This solution gives this company\u2019s world-class procurement organization fast access to accurate data to negotiate with vendors, make purchase decisions faster, and improve the productivity of its team. The combination of integrated data and high-performance front-end visualizations empowers the company to maximize cost savings on the thousands of products it purchases, now that procurement analysts can:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Automate product-led or vendor-led negotiation workflows<\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Optimize the distribution of products among multiple vendors<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Be alerted to potential price changes due to market conditions<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: -apple-system, 'system-ui', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, Oxygen-Sans, Ubuntu, Cantarell, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif;\">Get a holistic view of products purchased from all vendors across the organization<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"font-family: 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