Baker Hughes
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization
Source Smarter at Enterprise Scale
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This 8-step guided tour demonstrates how C3 AI Sourcing Optimization helps organizations improve sourcing performance. The tour covers reviewing active savings alerts to identify the lowest prices and price anomalies, deep diving into item-level price history, purchase order lines and sourcing split, examining open orders and suppliers for AI-driven cost improvement insights, accessing AI-generated commodity indexes to view purchase price trends, and evaluating supplier performance metrics to improve negotiations and maximize sourcing outcomes. To request a personalized demo, complete the contact form at the end.
The C3 AI Impact
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization helps procurement managers minimize costs and improve supply chain resiliency by detecting pricing anomalies, identifying alternative suppliers, and surfacing savings opportunities across the entire supply network.
10%
Reduction in sourcing costs
20M
In savings opportunities unlocked
5%
Improvement in supplier delivery performance
900K
SKUs supported at enterprise-scale
Capabilities
Single Pane of Glass Across All Spend
Powered by the C3 Agentic AI Platform, unify purchase orders, supplier profiles, commodity indices, risk signals, and delivery performance into a consolidated view of sourcing activity across every supplier, item, and order line.
Real-Time Pricing Anomaly Detection
Proactively monitor commodity price indices, price variances, and index-to-price divergences. Receive agentic alerts with prescriptive recommendations including alternate sourcing options and renegotiation strategies.
AI-Driven Supplier Similarity Analysis
Compare engineering attributes across hundreds of parts to identify similar items and rank alternative sources by cost, quality, lead time and risk to consolidate spend and maintain continuity during disruptions.
Total Landed Cost Visibility
Model fully-loaded landed cost including tariffs, freight, working capital, and MOQ impact across multi-vendor, multi-country scenarios, with automated HTS code mapping and real-time duty rates.
Agentic Workflows and Automation
Automate end-to-end procurement workflows including RFQs, purchase orders, invoice matching, and approval flows. Query any procurement dataset in natural language to build ad-hoc models for savings, cycle time, and supplier performance.
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization Data Sheet
Learn how C3 AI Sourcing Optimization helps procurement managers achieve up to 10% cost reduction and $20M in savings opportunity through AI-driven pricing anomaly detection, supplier similarity analysis, and total landed cost visibility.
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Additional Resources
C3 AI is #1 in AI Analytics Software
Verdantix names C3 AI #1 Leader in their 2025 Industrial AI Analytics Software report. Read the report for an analysis of C3 AI’s leading scores in supply chain management.
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