Improve Sourcing Decisions with AI Insights and Alerts
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization helps procurement managers minimize costs and improve supply chain resiliency by identifying price leakage and supplier risks in advance.
Explore how C3 AI Sourcing Optimization unifies disparate data such as purchase orders, supplier data, and commodity indices, and applies AI to identify pricing or purchase order anomalies and supplier geopolitical or financial risks.
Benefits
Reduce sourcing costs
by proactively identifying savings opportunities
Minimize price leakage
by continuously monitoring item prices
Improve supplier performance
through continuous benchmarking across peers
AI-Optimized Sourcing Management
Pain point
C3 AI Sourcing Optimization Solution
Lack of holistic visibility into sourcing operations
Single pane of glass into all sourcing operations enables global visibility and timely action
Undetected price variations across purchase orders
Sourcing price optimization creates pricing visibility and identifies savings opportunities
Difficulty capturing benefits from market index movements
AI-based pricing anomaly detection delivers timely alerts on any uncorrelated item-index movements
Reactive risk management
AI-based sourcing risk management monitors and mitigates potential fulfillment and supplier risks
Manual and ad-hoc analysis to reveal sourcing performance
Comprehensive sourcing performance tracking helps identify best practices to improve sourcing decisions
Successful Deployments
Customer viewpoints
Scott Parent
VP, Enterprise Engineering & Technology
“What the teams found is ingestion is happening about 80% faster with about 1/10 the resources”
Jim Hannan
EVP, CEO Enterprises
“There’s no question that C3 AI has capabilities we haven’t seen before, with something that gives us a platform to drive enterprise AI.”
