Strategic procurement analytics and spend intelligence
Procurement data is often scattered across multiple systems and inconsistently categorized — making it hard to uncover savings or demonstrate ROI. Acquis partners with Ignite to harmonize your data and deliver actionable insights that drive supplier consolidation, portfolio optimization, and measurable cost reduction.
Transform procurement data into actionable business intelligence
Ignite unifies your procurement data to provide it into insights you can act on. Gain control, uncover opportunities, and know where to focus to drive real impact.
Turn procurement data into competitive advantage
We help organizations move from data reporting to data-driven procurement excellence through Ignite's AI-powered categorization and the Acquis Savings Modeler.
Actionable insights
We combine data analytics and category expertise to deliver procurement insights that uncover savings opportunities, monitor compliance, provide category intelligence, and optimize supplier payments.
Advanced Category Analytics
We deliver category analysis across the entire spend spectrum — from strategic to tail spend — using our quantitative insights library. Clients receive spend category insights monthly or quarterly, aligned to their preferred cadence and goals. Plus, they can build custom, on-demand reports anytime via the Ignite platform.
Category Insights and Market Intelligence
We help clients optimize working capital and uncover hidden savings through proprietary market intelligence — providing the insights needed to negotiate from a position of strength.
Compliance and Opportunity Analytics
We empower clients to eliminate procurement process risks and capture missed savings through compliance and catalog analytics. We identify process gaps, optimize catalog performance, and reduce price variance across procurement categories.
Comprehensive Data Analysis and Enrichment
We harmonize spend data using industry taxonomies like UNSPSC alongside our proprietary classifications. This process cleans and organizes data from multiple sources — including supplier names — to provide accurate, unified spend visibility through dashboards and customizable reporting.
Data Normalization and Analytics Implementation
We transform procurement data to create meaningful procurement intelligence. Our proven three-step approach combines data, business insights, and predefined structure: assess current taxonomy structure, normalize and refine categorization using AI automation, and finalize taxonomy with comprehensive documentation.
Savings Modeling and Opportunity Identification
We identify and prioritize procurement opportunities to deliver targeted savings. Acquis Savings Modeler uses harmonized data and historical benchmarks by subcategory and geography to model potential savings with low, typical, and high estimates.
Taxonomy Design and Implementation
We design and implement custom procurement taxonomies tailored to your business needs. By reviewing existing taxonomy structures and spend data, we identify gaps and develop best-practice solutions with clear subcategorization and usage guidelines.
Our proven analytics methodology
Systematic approach
We provide actionable procurement insights based on historical outcomes and market conditions through a systematic process: understand client environment, determine predictive opportunity value, assess insight practicality, envision end state, recommend strategy, and publish insight value.
The Acquis analytics process
Data is loaded into our analytics platform where it is quickly normalized and categorized using AI automation. Normalized data is then loaded into the Acquis Savings Modeler to quickly identify opportunities. We develop actionable insights combining both data and category expertise to deliver committed outcomes.
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Acquis can implement Ignite in 30 days or less
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Gain 100% spend visibility
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Average ROI on our procurement managed services engagements
FAQs
What is Ignite?
Ignite is a cloud-based procurement and supplier intelligence platform that centralizes all your procurement data into one unified hub, assisting companies in gaining control over spend, uncovering opportunities, and making data-driven decisions. It includes
Spend Analytics: Full visibility across all suppliers and categories
Contract Management: Centralized contracts with automated alerts
Supplier Intelligence: Risk assessments and performance tracking
Sustainability Tracking: Carbon accounting and ESG reporting
AI-Powered Insights: Automated opportunity identification
What makes Ignite different from traditional procurement tools?
Unlike traditional procurement tools that create additional data silos, Ignite creates a "digital clone" of your company's procurement ecosystem. Instead of replacing your existing systems, Ignite connects and harmonizes data from all sources — ERPs, supplier databases, contracts, and sustainability metrics—into unified intelligence. This approach eliminates the scattered spreadsheets and manual processes that slow decision-making, providing real-time insights that integrate procurement and sustainability management in ways traditional tools cannot.
How does Ignite transform procurement operations?
By harmonizing data from multiple ERPs and systems, Ignite provides complete spend visibility, supplier intelligence, and AI-driven insights that enable faster, data-driven procurement decisions. Organizations typically achieve 100% spend visibility, identify 5-10% potential savings, and gain 80% efficiency improvements within the first 30 days of implementation.
Why choose Acquis as your Ignite implementation partner?
As procurement transformation specialists, Acquis brings deep expertise in both strategic sourcing and technology implementation to your Ignite deployment. Our partnership with Ignite combines their cutting-edge platform with our proven methodologies for data harmonization, supplier intelligence, and procurement optimization. Unlike generalist consultancies, we understand the complexities of procurement data integration and have developed proprietary approaches that accelerate time-to-value while ensuring sustainable adoption across your organization.
How does Acquis leverage the Ignite platform for private equity clients?
Ignite is able to take individual data sets from each private equity portfolio company and provide a holistic view of the entire portfolio in a single place. Actionable insights are used to identify opportunities across the portfolio with curated dashboards available for tracking.
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