Trade

Supplier Analysis Agent

Whether this supplier performed well is recorded in two systems and never in one place.

Uses data to assess supplier performance.

Open agent
Public administration

Four processes that take up the most time today

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU

Developed in Germany · Hosted in the EU or on-premises

Delivered together with

STACKIT Sovereign hosting in Germany, single-tenant from the first user.
Rödl Legal, tax and compliance expertise for legally sound deployment.
4P Consulting Advisory and implementation for the public sector, starting with the AI readiness assessment.

Before every annual review, someone rebuilds the delivery history by hand.

Goods receipts are in the ERP, quality notifications in the SCM system, the agreed price tiers in the framework agreement. For a single meeting, the buyer pulls the order history, counts late deliveries and digs out the relevant contract clause. The result is a spreadsheet that nobody maintains once the meeting is over.

68suppliersThat is how many hold framework agreements in the health and beauty category.
412goods receipts per supplierThat is how many lines a framework supplier delivers in twelve months, each with a target and an actual date.
4data sourcesERP, quality notifications, contract repository and price list each say something different.
€14,800charged above the tiersThat is how much the company pays each year above the agreed tier prices, spread across nine product lines.

With on-time delivery, complaints and price trends on one sheet before the annual review, purchasing negotiates the 15% better purchasing terms with evidence rather than impressions.

The 15% improvement in purchasing terms is this agent's headline figure. The 412 goods receipts and the €14,800 above tier prices describe a framework supplier in the health and beauty category; they are illustrative, not measured.

Three steps through the process.

The agent documents on-time delivery, complaints and price deviations with dates and clauses; it leaves open who is to blame for a late delivery.

Compile the delivery history per supplier

The agent reads orders and goods receipts from the ERP and compares the target and actual date for each line. It attaches quality notifications to the delivery concerned.

Supplier Nordwaren GmbH, 412 goods receipts over 12 months, 33 complaints matched

Check price trends against the framework agreement

The agent compares the prices charged with the tiers in the framework agreement. It records every deviation with product number, invoice date and clause.

9 lines above the tier price, product 4471-08 in breach of clause 5.2 since March

Hand the assessment sheet to purchasing

The agent puts on-time delivery, quality notifications, price deviations and risk alerts on one sheet. The buyer takes it into the annual review.

lieferantenblatt_nordwaren_2026.pdf, 4 metrics, 9 documented price deviations

What the agent does not do.

It does not place orders with suppliers.

It presents the assessment with references. Whether the framework agreement is renewed or the category goes out to tender again is decided by supplier management.

It does not split rising purchase prices into raw material costs and supplier margin.

It sets each product's price trend alongside the tiers in the framework agreement. The buyer weighs up in the annual review whether an increase is justified.

It does not track verbal commitments from the annual review.

It calculates against the tiers stored in the framework agreement. A commitment made on the phone only counts once it is in the contract repository as an addendum.

Connected systems

  • ERP
  • SCM system
  • contract repository

Operations

  • Deployment modelEU cloud or private cloud
  • Data processingGDPR-compliant, no model training on your data
  • Responsible teamsPurchasing, supply chain

The questions that come up before the first meeting.

How quickly is the Supplier Analysis Agent ready to use?

A pilot typically runs on your own data within 4 to 6 weeks. The agent connects to your existing systems rather than running as a separate, parallel environment.

Where is the data processed?

EU cloud or private cloud. Processing is GDPR-compliant and models are never trained on your data. Details in the Trust Center.

Where does the figure “15% better purchasing terms” come from?

It is based on experience from comparable projects and process benchmarks, not a commitment. We work out the realistic effect for your organisation during the assessment before the pilot.

Related agents.

Intake review, case 2026/04711

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