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Strategic Sourcing

AI Spend Categorization

SupplyHub

Transforming spend chaos into crystal-clear cost intelligence with AI-driven categorization.

Overview

Project Overview

SupplyHub's enterprise clients were drowning in unstructured spend data — millions of transactions across disparate ERP systems, credit card platforms, and invoice databases with inconsistent vendor naming, misclassified categories, and no unified taxonomy.

Agiliztech engineered an AI-driven spend intelligence engine that auto-categorizes transactions, standardizes vendor records, and reveals actionable cost insights across all systems in real time — processing what previously took weeks in minutes.

Industry

Procurement & Finance

Timeline

10 weeks

Tech Stack

NLP ClassificationEntity ResolutionReal-time StreamingPythonSnowflake

The Challenge

What problems needed solving?

1

Unstructured Transaction Data

Over 2 million monthly transactions arrived in non-standardized formats with free-text descriptions, making automated categorization nearly impossible.

2

Vendor Name Inconsistency

The same supplier appeared under 15-20 different naming variations across systems, preventing accurate spend consolidation and negotiation leverage.

3

Manual Classification Backlog

A team of 8 analysts spent 70% of their time manually categorizing and reclassifying spend — a process that was 3 months behind at any given time.

4

Missed Savings Opportunities

Without accurate spend visibility, the organization was unable to identify $5M+ in consolidation, maverick spending, and contract leakage opportunities.

The Solution

How Agiliztech delivered results

1

Intelligent Classification Pipeline

Built a multi-stage NLP pipeline that analyzes transaction descriptions, vendor records, and contextual metadata to classify spend into a 4-level UNSPSC taxonomy with 97.3% accuracy.

2

AI Entity Resolution Engine

Developed a fuzzy matching and entity resolution system that identifies and merges duplicate vendor records across all source systems into a single golden record.

3

Real-Time Spend Dashboard

Created an interactive analytics layer that surfaces spend patterns, anomalies, and savings opportunities as transactions are processed — not weeks later.

4

Continuous Learning Loop

Implemented a feedback mechanism where analyst corrections automatically retrain the model, improving accuracy from 89% to 97.3% within the first 6 weeks.

The Benefits

Measurable business impact

97.3%

Accuracy

Auto-categorization accuracy, up from 62% with rule-based approaches.

50x

Speed

Faster processing — 2M transactions categorized in minutes instead of weeks.

$8.1M

Savings Found

In addressable savings identified through consolidated spend visibility in the first quarter.

80%

Analyst Efficiency

Reduction in manual classification effort, redirecting team to strategic work.

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