Client stories and testimonials
Evidence from sourcing teams who used our dashboards in steering reviews, supplier negotiations, and internal audit responses.
"Our indirect spend story finally matched what category managers were reporting verbally. The MRO waterfall chart alone changed how we prioritized the Q3 renegotiation list."
"The team needed two revision rounds on supplier grouping logic, which slowed us by a week, but the final taxonomy aligned with our SAP cost centers. That alignment was worth the wait."
"We brought twelve category leads into one room with benchmark charts already printed. The session cut three weeks of email debate down to a single afternoon of agreed targets."
"Internal audit asked for our savings calculation trail. The methodology appendix Acacia Hub wrote let us answer without scheduling another vendor call. I wish we had requested that document earlier in the project."
Extended project: Logistics category renegotiation
A Busan-based consumer goods company engaged us in early 2024 to prepare spend analysis for their freight and warehousing category ahead of a dual-sourcing RFP. Their Coupa exports had inconsistent carrier codes across three regional business units.
Over four weeks we normalized 18 months of freight invoices, produced Pareto and lane-level concentration charts, and facilitated a half-day session where category managers agreed on a KRW 2.1B negotiation target range. The RFP launched six weeks later with shared baseline numbers—previously each region had used different denominators.
The client noted that initial data cleanup took longer than estimated because legacy carrier master records had not been updated since a 2021 ERP migration. We documented the mapping rules so their internal team could maintain the taxonomy afterward.