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Drive procurement performance through integrated financial planning

Align your financial targets with strategic initiatives and streamline cross-functional collaboration to ensure continuous visibility into your future outlook.

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Maximize business impact with agile, automated forecasting

Enable predictive insights with AI-driven data unification. Sievo automates classification and enrichment, helps you generate scenarios, and aligns cross-functional teams to protect margins and proactively mitigate market risks.

 

80% reduction
in forecasting cycle time
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100% visibility
into direct materials spend and COGS

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Real-time alignment
between Procurement initiatives and Finance targets
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Master your planning from data to decision-making

DMF

Start your planning with a trusted budget foundation

Free your team from the manual, time-consuming work of data gathering and cleansing, so they can focus on higher-value activities like analysis and decision-making.

  • Automate manual data gathering: Automatically fetch historical actuals, prices, and volumes from data lakes and other procurement systems
  • Overcome data chaos: Leverage AI-powered cleansing and classification to eliminate manual errors and inconsistent data
  • Establish a single source of truth: Create a unified spend baseline for your next budget cycle that both Finance and Procurement trust

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DMF Forecast

Achieve profitability with agile, collaborative forecasting

Move from static annual budgets to integrated planning with rolling forecasts that adapt to market volatility in real-time.
  • Automate market intelligence: Generate price forecasts using market indexes and raw material cost structures
  • Track Purchase Price Variance (PPV): Monitor the difference between budgeted and actual purchase prices to stay on top of cost performance
  • Collaborate across functions: Manage expert input from category managers and finance teams within a single, controlled workflow

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DMF initiatives

Sync your savings pipeline with financial projections

Ensure your budget reflects your actual procurement strategy by linking savings projects directly to your forecast.

  • Sync strategy with reality: Incorporate planned and realized savings and project impacts directly into your financial outlook
  • Dynamic impact tracking: Instantly see how changes in initiative target prices, timelines, or statuses affect your future spend
  • Bridge the functional gap: Ensure procurement actions are visible in financial projections to eliminate duplicate work and planning silos

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DMF impact

Prepare for uncertainty and mitigate risks

Stay ahead of market volatility by stress-testing your budget against real-world scenarios.

  • Model market disruptions: Simulate the impact of raw material price spikes, currency fluctuations, or volume changes on your future COGS.
  • Compare scenarios side by side: Evaluate Best Case, Worst Case, and Most Likely outcomes to make informed, proactive decisions.

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Trusted. Aligned. Strategic.
Create a unified view of your financial plans and targets.

Before Sievo, everybody questioned the data. It was a lot of finger pointing. Now, with the traceability back to our ERP systems, there is a lot more credibility to what we do. It's really been helpful to see a connection to what we present and tracing it right back to the material. We just have better data now to make decisions."

Christopher Smolyn

Global Finance Partner at Becton Dickinson

We needed a tool that we could use cross-functionally, so it would serve the purpose of meeting the business needs, but also be fluent, dynamic, and where we could get into more value-added analysis versus just the number-crunching. Sievo helped us realize those goals with their Spend Forecasting solution.

Michelle Palmquist

Senior Finance Director, Global Procurement & Contract Manufacturing at Kellogg’s

See how to accelerate planning cycles and improve performance steering.

 

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