How leading businesses in manufacturing protect margin & improve performance

Kodiak Hub’s SRM suite helps manufacturers optimize supplier relationships to reduce costs, ensure quality, and innovate faster.

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Kodiak Hub customers typically achieve

3-8%

reduction in total cost of ownership

15-30%

reduction in cost of poor quality

20-40%

fewer supplier-related disruptions

25-40%

faster performance cycles

In manufacturing, direct materials represent 50–80% of total product cost and most of the operational risk exposure. A delayed cast component can stop an assembly line. A deviation in a critical electronic part can trigger warranty claims, and a financially unstable Tier 2 supplier can disrupt global production schedules.

At the same time, manufacturers face:

Tariff volatility and regionalization of supply chains
Shorter product lifecycles and more frequent engineering changes
Regulatory pressure around safety, sustainability, and due diligence

Yet supplier performance, product-level quality data, audit results, and third-party risk signals are often managed in disconnected systems. ERP captures transactions. Risks solution provides one-off signals. Quality capture defects, and spreadsheets are used to track supplier follow-ups. When intelligence is disconnected and execution is manual, performance drifts. And when performance drifts, margin erodes – silently at first.

Kodiak Hub changes this. We connect product-level intelligence, supplier performance metrics, and risk signals into one operational execution layer - purpose-built for business-critical materials.

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Cut costs & boost efficiency

Manual qualification, onboarding, and follow-up processes are automated through structured workflows. Teams typically reduce administrative workload by 30–40% and accelerate performance review cycles by up to 40%.

Kodiak Hub applies AI to analyze patterns and variances, supplier performance deviations, and negotiation leverage points. If a specific component repeatedly generates quality claims across plants, Kodiak Hub surfaces the structural cost impact.

This is how manufacturers using Kodiak Hub commonly achieve 5–8% reduction in total cost of ownership, and a reduction in supplier claims by 58%, saving nearly €0.5M, while cutting manual qualification work by threefold.

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Ensure quality & compliance

In manufacturing, quality failures in direct materials can halt production lines, increase scrap rates, or trigger customer warranty exposure.

Kodiak Hub connects product-level intelligence with supplier and risk performance. If defect rates increase for a specific batch or supplier, AI detects the trend early and can initiate a corrective action workflow.

ISO / IATF certifications, safety documentation, and ESG declarations are centrally tracked. Expiring certifications or unresolved non-conformities automatically trigger follow-up actions.

Manufacturers typically reduce cost of poor quality by 15–30% and decrease repeat deviations through structured performance progression. Quality becomes measurable at product level — not just supplier level.

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Strengthen supplier performance & resilience

Manufacturers depend on complex global supplier networks, often with limited visibility into Tier 2 and Tier 3 exposure.

Kodiak Hub continuously monitors:

On-time delivery trends
Lead-time stability
Capacity constraints
Financial health signals
Geopolitical and trade exposure

If a critical supplier shows declining financial indicators or repeated late deliveries, predictive alerts are generated and structured mitigation workflows are triggered.

Our customers typically experience 20–40% fewer supplier-related disruptions and improved production continuity. Procurement moves from reactive escalation to predictive control.

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Drive innovation & continuous improvements

Manufacturers increasingly rely on suppliers for innovation - from lightweight materials to smart packaging to improved component design.

Kodiak Hub enables structured collaboration with suppliers on product development and improvement initiatives.

Supplier development plans, corrective actions, and innovation projects are embedded in the same execution framework. Improvement is tracked cycle by cycle.

AI highlights performance benchmarks and identifies improvement opportunities at component level, and continuous improvement becomes operationalized rather than one-offs.

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As a pioneering procuretech platform paving the way for a new era of sourcing, we're proud to be recognized by procurement professionals and thought leaders around the world.