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Turn manufacturing spend data into negotiation power.

Manufacturers buy the same materials from many suppliers across many plants, yet price variance hides inside catch-all material groups. Mithra builds a validated taxonomy and surfaces the average, highest, and lowest price for every material.

Opportunities
Identified value2.82M
Realized value410K
OpportunityStageIdentified
Stainless steel sheet price varianceSame material · 6 plants · €4.10 vs €5.80 per kg88% confidence
In review
980K
Fasteners & fixings consolidationFragmented tail · 11 suppliers to 391% confidence
Accepted
760K
"Material Others" reclassifiedCatch-all bucket broken out into real categories74% confidence
Identified
660K
Bearings & seals price varianceSame SKU across 4 plants · 14% spread85% confidence
In execution
420K
The manufacturing reality

A tool that gives you everything but visibility.

Many manufacturers run an internal tool that can't surface what the group is buying. Catch-all material groups like "Material Others" lump categories together, buyers can't trust the classifications, and there's no basis to spot negotiation opportunities. Defining a taxonomy by hand stretches into months.

Catch-all material groups

"Material Others" hides multiple categories buyers can't read.

Unreliable classifications

Material codes buyers can't trust to drive decisions.

No negotiation basis

No way to compare prices for the same material across plants.

Manual taxonomy, slow

Hand-built category trees are error-prone and take months.

How Mithra delivers

AI suggests, your team validates.

Mithra pairs its intelligence with your domain expertise in a tight loop, proposing classifications your buyers validate, then keeps the taxonomy alive as products evolve.

  • A validated baseline taxonomyAI proposes the structure; your team refines it in weeks.
  • Reclassify all spendEvery transaction, including "Material Others", classified with high accuracy.
  • Average, highest & lowest priceThe same material across suppliers and plants, side by side.
  • Govern over timeNew products and acquisitions absorbed without losing integrity.
Supplier A · Plant DEStainless steel sheet · 304
€4.10/kg
Lowest
Supplier B · Plant CHStainless steel sheet · 304
€4.85/kg
Average
Supplier C · Plant ITStainless steel sheet · 304
€5.20/kg
Average
Supplier D · Plant PLStainless steel sheet · 304
€5.80/kg
Highest
Outcomes for manufacturing

Spend data as a strategic asset.

"Material Others", solved

The catch-all bucket becomes a clean, granular taxonomy.

Negotiation, aimed

Price per material across suppliers backs every negotiation with data.

Future-proofed

The taxonomy maintains itself as products launch and acquisitions land.

Decisions on data

Category strategy runs on evidence, not intuition.

Proof · Franke

Franke turned messy spend data into strategic advantage, in weeks.

Whole swaths of spend were buried in a catch-all "Material Others" category. In about three weeks, Mithra and Franke built a validated, AI-assisted taxonomy and reclassified the data.

3 wks
From zero to a validated procurement taxonomy
100%
Of spend AI-reclassified with high accuracy
1 view
Average, highest & lowest price across every supplier
Ongoing
Continuous taxonomy maintenance as products evolve
In practice
"We went from fragmented visibility and misclassified spend to a robust, AI-assisted taxonomy and classification in just weeks."
Angela Rametsi Angela RametsiChief Procurement Officer, Franke Management
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