Case Study: Major Diversified Manufacturing Corporation achieves a unified supplier view—eliminating 33% duplicate records to reduce component costs and improve payment terms with Tamr Inc.

Tamr Powers Procurement Analytics That Drive Down Component Cost and Improve Payment Terms

Major Diversified Manufacturing Corporation, a long-established company grown by mergers and acquisitions, struggled to create a single, accurate supplier master list across more than a dozen ERP systems and numerous data silos. Manual, top-down deduplication was too slow and error-prone to support procurement analytics and negotiating better component prices and payment terms, so the company engaged Tamr Inc.’s machine-learning, bottom-up data integration platform to build a scalable supplier master list.

Tamr Inc. combined probabilistic machine learning with expert-sourced reviews and integrations to enrichment sources like D&B and AddressDoctor, continuously re-evaluating potential matches across systems. The implementation produced a unified supplier view, eliminated 33% of records as duplicates, and provided enterprise-wide sourcing analytics used to drive down component costs and improve payment terms, while enabling faster onboarding of new data sources going forward.