How Lamb Weston Unlocked Full Spend Visibility in SAP Ariba with Mithra AI
Overview
Lamb Weston operates one of the most complex supply chains in the frozen food industry. Yet, its procurement team lacked the accurate and granular spend visibility needed to drive strategic decisions. Millions of euros were locked in vague “miscellaneous” categories, masking potential savings, compliance risks, and supplier consolidation opportunities.
Despite having a procurement suite, the team couldn’t fully leverage its capabilities due to data quality limitations. They also didn’t have the internal bandwidth or expertise to cleanse and enrich the data themselves.
“Mithra empowered our category managers and our procurement suite to deliver business value like never before.”
Jeroen Teuns, Manager Procurement Excellence EMEA, Lamb Weston
Impact Highlights
- Key taxonomy improvement areas identified with actionable suggestions
- 100% of spend auto-classified with over 95% accuracy
- Fully integrated into existing processes and synchronized with the procurement suite
The Challenge
- Limited visibility: Inaccurate and overly broad categorization within SAP Ariba
- Resource constraints: Lack of in-house capacity to improve data granularity
- No appetite for overhaul: No budget or bandwidth to change tools or rewire existing processes
- Operational inefficiency: Category teams flying blind due to unclear or incomplete data, especially on tail spend
The Solution & impact
- Data Onboarding—No IT Involvement
The procurement team simply exported raw spend data into Mithra’s secure cloud workspace. Mithra handled mapping, quality validation, and onboarding autonomously—capturing all scoped data within days.
- AI-Powered Categorization & Enrichment
Mithra’s tailored models learned Lamb Weston’s preferred taxonomy. Utilizing external supplier data, refined and harmonized spend descriptions, and improved taxonomy, every transaction was assigned the most granular category with confidence level and reason code for each. More importantly, with each user interaction, the models improved further. - Closed-Loop Sync Back to the Procurement Suite
Mithra was wrapped around existing workflows—receiving raw data, transforming it, and syncing enriched, categorized data back into SAP Ariba. This created a sustainable foundation for analytics and decision-making across the group.
- Empowering the Procurement Team
Now for the first time, category managers and analyst across regions could finally rely on accurate, harmonized data, directly within the analytics module of their suite. No process changes. No new tools to learn. Now they could fully focus on their category strategy and realizing promised values to the business.
Ready to empower your Procurement suite?
If you utilize or are about to implement a procurement suite and still wrestle with unclear categories or hidden savings, see how Mithra can help. Book a 30-minute demo today and turn spend data into action.
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