Understand Supplier Synergy Before Completing IT Integration

Supply chain optimization and enhanced buying power are leading value drivers in mergers and acquisitions within the manufacturing sector. A key source of frustration for companies is the time it takes to integrate disparate supply chain systems to identify these value-creating opportunities. Often months, even years, may pass before the company achieves an integrated picture of its supply chain, costing shareholders millions of dollars in lost opportunities. The GAINE Advantage™ Supplier Analysis Service offers buyers the ability to accelerate supplier and raw material analysis following a merger or acquisition.

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GAINE Advantage™ Supplier Analysis Service

GAINE Solutions Inc. provides a hosted environment in which we integrate and analyze supply chain information from multiple disparate systems to produce an accurate picture of the combined supplier base and common raw materials.

This analysis is performed with minimal input from either IT or business stakeholders, freeing them to concentrate on the multitude of post merger/acquisition tasks they are already occupied with. Supplier and materials data can be provided to GAINE in almost any format with no changes to existing IT systems.

The GAINE Advantage™ process leverages state-of-the-art master data management technology, reference data libraries and cost effective offshore resources for research, data augmentation and validation to combine supplier and material master files for analysis. Our integration process can handle international supplier and materials information irrespective of format and initial data quality.

Supply Chain Analytics

The depth of the analysis is determined by the companies needs and availability of data. Typical analysis includes:

Supplier Identification

• # New/Common Suppliers (site level)
• # New/Common Suppliers (legal entity level)

Key Analysis Variables

• Purchased $ value
• Volume

Material Consolidation

• # New/Common Materials
• Missing or Inconsistent Attributes
• Taxonomy Rationalization
• Weights and Measures Rationalization

Period

• Year to Date
• Last 12 Months
• Lifetime

Supplier Segmentation

• By Region
• By Plant
• By Material or Material Group

Information Augmentation & Validation

The material and supplier information from the merged or acquired company is often incomplete, of too poor quality or may use different categorization standards to the buyer. These data quality problems can’t be addressed through integration methods alone; if required information is missing it must be derived, created or sourced.

The GAINE Advantage™solution incorporates offshore data augmentation and validation services. GAINE leverages extensive reference databases on suppliers and materials coupled with experienced offshore data stewards to perform additional research, data entry and validation in the most cost effective manner.

GAINE will work with you to determine the most effective approach to standardizing your supplier and material information. In addition, we offer this supplier and materials maintenance on an ongoing basis in a very costeffective model.