Smarter purchasing with clear cost control and supplier delivery insights
A scalable solution for managing supplier performance and spend
An industrial equipment supplier in the steel industry needed better visibility into procurement costs and supplier delivery performance. In a high-value, high-complexity purchasing environment, the organization adopted a modern Qlik Cloud solution to track the full picture — from spend to delivery timelines — with automated insights and minimal manual effort.
The procurement team needed to:
Track and control purchasing costs across suppliers, projects and categories
Monitor supplier delivery times to identify delays, trends and bottlenecks
Reduce manual reporting work and enable more strategic, data-driven follow-up
Data was spread across multiple ERP systems, making it difficult to consolidate and act on in a meaningful way.
A tailored procurement application was developed in Qlik Cloud, powered by automated data pipelines and Python-based webhooks for real-time updates. The solution included:
Spend dashboards – tracking supplier costs by category, timeframe and project
Delivery performance insights – analyzing lead times, delays, and deviation trends
Automated alerts – triggered when delivery performance falls below set thresholds
Role-based views – giving procurement, project managers and leadership access to the right insights
The solution brought immediate value to the purchasing process:
Stronger cost control – with full transparency into where money is going
Proactive supplier management – issues identified early, not after the fact
Time savings – reduced manual reporting and follow-up
Better decisions – through data-driven procurement planning and execution
The organization now runs a more efficient, insight-driven procurement operation — built for precision, accountability and long-term supplier performance.