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Financial Performance
Strategic Procurement
One screen that compares every supplier, product by product, and orders only what is needed.
- Entry model
- Procurement Diagnostic, fixed price
- Duration
- 2 weeks (10 business days)
- Pricing
- Price on request
Does this sound familiar?
- We buy the same supply from three suppliers and I never know who offers the lowest cost this month.
- Each supplier names the same product differently and sells it in another pack size; comparing prices takes an afternoon.
- We restock by instinct: either a critical consumable runs out or expensive stock expires.
Who it is for
- Dental groups, ophthalmology, fertility, aesthetic medicine, and longevity clinics
- Imaging centers and specialty veterinary hospitals and groups
- Pet nutrition and boutique pet retail brands, and pet spa and grooming
- Buyer: owner, medical director, or head of operations
In animal health
For pet nutrition and boutique retail brands: suppliers, channels, and recurring customers in one view.
- We buy food from three distributors and do not know who offers the best price or the best terms this month.
- We sell the same product in the store, on the web, and on marketplaces, and the stock never matches.
- A customer buys food every month and nobody warns them before it runs out.
Animal health
The same method, applied to veterinary and pet care organizations. We bring the same layer to the animal health industry.
See veterinary hospitals and groupsHow we do it
Preparation
up to 5 business daysWhat worksA shared upload folder connected to the document reader; three test invoices become structured rows.Invoices to data and master table
Days 1–3What worksA pipeline that turns all your invoices into rows, with a measured reading-error rate, and a master product table with normalized units.Matching and baseline
Days 4–5What worksAn approved equivalence table and a first read-only supplier comparison with your real prices.Purchasing efficiency and replenishment
Days 6–7What worksA purchasing-efficiency ranking with two invoices behind every line and a replenishment proposal computed from your consumption.Versus and purchase order
Days 8–10What worksThe comparison screen and the approval flow running in your environment, loaded with your products.
How it starts
Procurement Diagnostic, fixed price
What works at the end
A supplier comparison (“versus”) screen and a purchase-order flow with approval, loaded with your own products and running in your environment.
Price on request
Production rollout of the procurement platform (4 to 6 weeks, fixed price): automatic intake of price lists and invoices, price alerts, replenishment, and ERP connection.
Monthly subscription to operate and evolve the running procurement platform in your environment, plus an optional share of measured cost improvement.
You keep every deliverable. There is no obligation to continue after the entry engagement.
How we measure value
What we measure
- Purchasing efficiency in percent and amount per product
- Price dispersion across suppliers
- Stock-outs and tied-up capital
- Weekly hours spent on purchasing
How you verify it
Each efficiency line points to two concrete invoices, the one you paid and the reference price. Anyone can open both and check. Inflation adjustment is agreed in writing so we never claim an effect that is not ours.
Why K2-154
- Every cost improvement is auditable invoice against invoice.
- We compare across all your suppliers, including local ones, and connect to your inventory and approvals.
- A professional decides clinical equivalences; the system proposes and records.
Open standards and tools we build with
- DoclingReading invoices and documents
- Pydantic AITyped data extraction
- SplinkRecord linkage and identity resolution
- statsforecastConsumption forecasting
- Open Policy AgentApproval and access rules
- Apache SupersetDashboards
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Questions
Will the system substitute clinical products on its own?
No. The system proposes equivalent products; a clinician in your team approves or rejects each pair.
Is the platform a product you license from K2-154?
No. It is installed and runs in your environment on open-source tools. The monthly fee pays for operation, support, and evolution.
What if I do not want to share data yet?
The prototype can be loaded with a synthetic catalog first, then switched to your products when you are ready.
Begin the conversation.
Tell us which systems are involved. We will respond with next steps.
hello@k2-154.com
We take on no more than three engagements at a time.
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