Working with Susan has been a breath of fresh air

Working with Susan has been a breath of fresh air. Her insights on how to tackle the up-front cleansing and ongoing maintenance of our external third party supplier spend data has helped us to completely reset the way we approach business compliance conversations with our internal colleagues. We now have accurate, timely data feeding into monthly spend dashboards and compliance reports that the business trusts and uses to drive behaviour change. What has impressed me the most about The Classification Guru team is that they don’t just present a theoretical vision on powerpoint, they actually understand and do the work themselves, and then go over and beyond to make sure you have a sustainable solution in place after they leave. And all with big smiles and fun along the way. Highly recommended!

I have no idea how Susan managed to accurately classify so much data in such a short period of time

We found the Classification Guru while looking to establish a brand new global indirect procurement function, and having found our GL code usage to have been too inconsistently applied to be useful for classification purposes.

Working with Susan was very straightforward, and with her help we were able to classify around 95% of our several thousand global suppliers within just a few weeks, with a high level of accuracy, and at a very reasonable overall cost. This was invaluable in allowing us to develop our spend analytics very early in our project.  I have no idea how Susan managed to accurately classify so much data in such a short period of time, but I would have no hesitation in recommending her services to anyone in the same situation.

We are now set up for success for our implementation of a new spend analytic tool.

We are set ourselves the challenge of standardising our spend taxonomy and made the decision to use the taxonomy that more than one site was using, as the starting point. What Susan then helped us to do in bring the outside in, to make sure we had not missed any spend areas and we had find the right balance between granularity and a user friendly taxonomy. Susan made some good suggestions on improvements we could make and what was impressive was how quickly she was able to turn this around, particularly due to the amount of data we provided her with, the different languages it included and the different formats. We are now set up for success for our implementation of a new spend analytic tool.

Susan helped us tremendously to normalize and classify our spend for the first time

We started our spend classification project with Classification Guru, because we had disparate back-end systems and no consistency or visibility into our spend. Susan was wonderful to work with, because she had a lot of patience to work through information from many sources and in many languages. She helped us tremendously to normalize and classify our spend for the first time. We had quite a few edits and revisions and she was very attentive and fast getting them done. Today we have a much better understanding of our spend in the different regions where we operate and her help at making sense of the data was invaluable to us.