DIRECT PROCUREMENT

Maximize savings & cost control across your direct spend

Automated savings opportunity identification, streamlined realization, and cost forecasts. Powered by material data harmonization, external and cross-customer benchmarks, and forward-looking analytics.

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In-house analytics can’t keep pace with the complexity & data cleansing needs of direct procurement

Today’s direct procurement teams manage tens of thousands of materials and suppliers across complex supply networks - where every decision directly impacts product quality, margins, and supply continuity. Yet siloed data, basic reporting, and limited market insight create critical blind spots. As a result, teams struggle to respond to volatility, anticipate risk, and capture savings - leaving organizations exposed to cost overruns, supply disruptions, and value leakage across direct spend.

 

 

From data to action: Power strategic sourcing with Sievo

Unleash millions in savings through automated opportunity identification while boosting supplier performance and resilience with a specialized procurement analytics solution.

 

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Direct spend data
you can trust

Sievo turns fragmented, complex direct spend data into a single source of truth. We solve the unique data challenges of direct procurement with AI-powered material harmonization, supplier normalization and advanced data cleansing including translation, currency rate and UOM conversion.

 

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Savings identified, executed & proven

Take control of direct material costs and safeguard margins with Sievo. We surface automated, high-impact savings opportunities from your direct spend data, then manage the entire initiative lifecycle - ensuring streamlined execution and accurate, finance-aligned realized savings on your bottom line.

 

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Direct materials cost & supply resilience

Move beyond historical analysis with forward-looking intelligence that aligns Procurement and Finance. Benchmark prices against external commodity data and Sievo Community Data, forecast direct material costs, monitor delivery performance, and surface supplier risks early to drive competitive and resilient supply.

 

KEY SOLUTIONS FOR DIRECT PROCUREMENT

Industry-leading data management

  • AUTOMATED DATA EXTRACTION
  • DATA CLEANSING & CATEGORIZATION
  • SUPPLIER NORMALIZATION
  • DATA ENRICHMENT

Unify data from all your sources in one place

 

  • Sievo automatically extracts and unifies all your internal transactional data (invoices, payments, purchase orders, etc.) and master data (materials, vendors, purchase info records, BOMs, demand forecast, etc.) from all ERPs, MRPs, data lakes, and procurement systems.

  • Sievo manages the entire data extraction process, delivering fast, automated, reliable, and secure data aggregation from both on-premise and cloud sources - freeing your team from manual data work.

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Clean and reliable data regardless of your original data quality

 

  • Sievo standardizes and consolidates your material master data, de-duplicating 6-23% of your materials - unlocking savings and reducing supply chain risk by identifying single-sourced or multi-sourced materials

  • Ensure global price transparency by harmonizing data across all systems including automated translation of material descriptions, currency rate conversion and UoM standardization for accurate price variance analysis

  • Translate raw material costs into end-product’s profitability insights by mapping spend data to BOMs, enabling effective COGS analysis and reliable financial forecasting.

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Discover your true purchasing power on global and local level

 

  • Instantly see who and with how many you have contracts with - Sievo automatically maps your ERP suppliers to parent organizations. Proactive updates on M&As and market changes - powered by AI, 100M+ supplier cross-customer database, Dun & Bradstreet data and expert curation.

  • Gain a 360° supplier view: Access a comprehensive profile for each supplier that unites internal data, external intelligence, actionable recommendations, and ongoing initiative tracking - all in one place.

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Informed sourcing for high-quality materials from the most suitable suppliers

 


  • Sievo enriches internal data with all the third-party sources you need - market price indexes, emissions data, supplier risk, diversity, and sustainability metrics - providing full context for every sourcing decision.

  • Leverage Sievo’s cross-customer Community Data, based on 2%+ global GDP spend data analyzed annually for aggregated peer benchmarks and actionable recommendations on payment terms, price indexes, and other performance metrics.

Learn more about Sievo Integrations >

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From savings idea, to execution and P&L impact

 

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AUTOMATED OPPORTUNITY IDENTIFICATION

Receive AI-powered high impact savings recommendations

  • Uncover hidden savings opportunities in your direct spend, from cost reductions and working capital improvements to supplier optimization and more.

  • Leverage Sievo Price Indexes - our proprietary peer-based benchmarks to validate your price performance and strengthen negotiations beyond standard commodity indexes.

  • Decide faster with Sievo IQ - a conversational analytics assistant that delivers instant answers for procurement, from material price variance and supplier performance assessment to identifying spend trends and cost-savings opportunities.

  • Turn analysis into action instantly with guided actions you can trigger in one click to capture savings, email suppliers, or assign tasks directly from an insight.



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PROCUREMENT PERFORMANCE MANAGEMENT

Drive opportunities from idea to execution and bottom-line impact

  • Drive the opportunities from spend data into initiatives and save millions, achieving impact 50% faster with a dedicated procurement performance management solution
  • Prove bottom-line impact in Finance-aligned language: Automatically track savings against baselines and separate controllable factors (e.g., volume shifts) from non-controllable factors like currency and market movements.

Learn more about Initiative Management & Realized Savings Management >

360° visibility for direct material cost competitiveness and resilient supply

  • MARKET & PEER BENCHMARKING
  • DIRECT MATERIAL BUDGETING & FORECASTING
  • DELIVERY PERFORMANCE
  • SUPPLIER RISK

Ensure competitive pricing by benchmarking against the market

 

  • React swiftly to market fluctuations: Compare your prices and cost structures to real-time market price indexes (commodities, energy, and labor) to quickly spot and respond to risks and opportunities as market conditions change

  • Gain unique negotiation power with Sievo Price Indexes - our aggregated cross-customer benchmarks. Automatically linked to your granular material transactions, they benchmark purchase prices against the corresponding indexes at material/category level to identify immediate negotiation opportunities.

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Streamline direct material budgeting & forecasting through agile planning

 

  • Agile, fact-based forecasting: Use AI-powered modeling and real-time market indexes to predict price changes at supplier-level granularity, delivering reliable, forward-looking cost projections.

  • Full year visibility: Gain a continuous, consolidated view of your financial outlook by seamlessly combining historical actuals with updated forecasts.

  • Proactive scenario simulation: Stress-test budgets against market volatility. Compare “what-if” scenarios and forecast Purchase Price Variance to manage risk and protect margins.

  • Unified source of truth: Align Procurement and Finance through a shared view of future spend, supported by built-in auditability and change logs.

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Secure supply continuity with predictable and high-quality supplier delivery

 

  • Gain real-time visibility into all purchase orders and OTIF performance to identify delivery risks early and secure reliable supply across suppliers, categories, and regions.

  • Strengthen supplier discussions with trusted insights on delivery performance, claims, and late deliveries to collaboratively improve service levels. Compare suppliers against their peers for more informed selection decisions.

  • Increase efficiency across the order-to-delivery process: Pinpoint inefficiencies across the purchasing lifecycle such as long lead times and delivery deviations to drive continuous improvement.

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Safeguard supply for your most critical materials through complete supplier risk visibility

 

  • Gain complete visibility into supplier risks to reduce vulnerability: Identify single-source dependencies, and track risk across every level - supplier, category, material, business unit, country, and more

  • Source smarter with ready-to-go alternatives in your existing supplier base, and prioritize actions with suppliers grouped and scored by risk types (financial, geopolitical, legal, etc)

  • Instantly uncover high-risk spend across direct materials: Protect continuity and quality with automated detection of unvetted suppliers. Act early on signals like supplier headcount changes, and proactively address high-risk, high-impact suppliers and categories prioritized by AI.

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Sievo has the solutions, data, and services you need for direct procurement success

 

2%+ Global GDP

processed annually
(60-70% is Direct Spend)

 

100M+ suppliers

collected and enriched by Sievo AI

11B+ transaction rows

processed across customer base

9.5M+ material codes

across categories

20+ years of expertise

in direct procurement
analytics

63x average ROI

realized, factoring both internal and external costs

$20M incremental savings

per $1B spend analyzed on average

Largest R&D Budget

in Procurement Analytics with
an AI-dedicated team

Spend Analytics and Insights

Master direct procurement complexity with the full 360° view

Empower your direct procurement teams to navigate complexity, anticipate disruptions, and capture every opportunity for savings and resilience - no matter how intricate your sourcing landscape evolves.

Ready to maximize value from every dollar of your direct spend?

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