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Territory 05 · The tactically-overwhelmed buyer

Territory · Substrate signal

05Caddie drafts. Buyer one-taps.

From inside SBD's procurement leadership: "tactical procurement teams overwhelmed by tactical challenges." Buyers chase supplier status across SAP + email + broker portals + spreadsheets — instead of doing the strategic work the cost program demands.

Today's loop · Caddie's loop.

Today · buyer reconciles by hand
SAP query
Email thread
Ariba lookup
Keelvar event
Excel sheet
Supplier portal
↓ hours of coordination · no decision yet
CADDIE reads across · drafts the action · buyer one-taps · audit trail

Same buyer. Same systems. The tactical reconciliation collapsed; capacity freed for strategic work.

The diagnosis from inside the function.

Inside SBD procurement · 2025

"Cost savings is a top priority in 2025, but it's become harder than ever to meet savings goals... purchasing teams overwhelmed by tactical challenges, some are under-skilled."

Public LinkedIn · 2025

The procurement stack

SAP Ariba (corporate) + Keelvar ("Infinity Sourcing") for events. Buyers reconcile across SAP + spreadsheets + email + portals daily.

Keelvar · SBD

Q1 2026 input pressure

Battery metals, tungsten, freight, resin — each input commodity is a category buyer's daily reconciliation problem.

SBD Q1 2026

Three moves · one buyer.

Cross-system read

Plain-English: "Where are we on supplier X this week?" Caddie reads SAP + Ariba + Keelvar + email + spreadsheets, returns the consolidated picture.

Drafted tactical action

Exception escalation, supplier outreach, scorecard prep, expedite ask — drafted with full context. Buyer one-taps to send.

Audit trail per recommendation

Every drafted action carries data lineage — which systems were read, what was returned, why. Auditor or VP traces any decision in 30 seconds.

Where we've shipped this shape.

SAP+Excel+email+WhatsApp+transporter

Cross-system data consolidation collapsed into one query · a tier-1 commercial manufacturer

90 min

Plain-English query → SAP writeback · a Fortune 500 manufacturer

40 → 5 min

Manual reports compressed · same deployment

Questions, fence, timeline.

  1. How much of a category buyer's day is reconciling supplier status across systems vs strategic supplier work?
  2. If Caddie reduced tactical load 30-40%, what strategic work would buyers actually do with the freed capacity?
  3. Where would a 90-day Caddie pilot land first — single category, single supplier base, or single use case (scorecard, expedite, exception)?

We'd touch

  • Cross-system read across SAP + Ariba + Keelvar + email + spreadsheets
  • Drafted tactical action (status, escalation, scorecard, outreach)
  • One-tap approval + execution + audit trail
  • Buyer-facing assistive layer · same buyer, more capacity

We wouldn't

  • Sourcing optimization (Keelvar / Infinity Sourcing)
  • Contract management (Ariba)
  • Should-cost / component intelligence
  • Autonomous purchase decisions
6-8 weeks · one category buyer's daily flow

First lane: one buyer's daily reconciliation flow instrumented end-to-end with Caddie drafting the tactical work, plus baseline measurement of tactical-load reduction at week 8.

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