Building a Unified Vendor Data Platform for a National Supplier Alliance
An industry coalition needed a unified view of pricing and vendor performance across member organizations. Their data existed in thousands of messy spreadsheets, PDFs, and inconsistent SKU formats.
The Challenge
Breweries and suppliers submitted invoices in over 40+ different formats. SKUs for identical products varied by naming conventions, packaging descriptions, and vendor-specific codes. Manual aggregation required 10+ hours per member monthly — at scale, the problem was massive.
The Solution
FuseLabs built a canonical SKU system powered by a data ingestion pipeline that automatically extracted, normalized, and mapped products into unified categories. A real-time dashboard allowed alliance members to benchmark prices and identify outliers instantly.
Key Results
- Normalized 12,000+ SKUs across all suppliers
- Reduced manual data cleaning time by 85%
- Saved 4,800+ collective hours annually
- Enabled members to negotiate 3–7% better supplier pricing
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