Leveraging artificial intelligence to transform business operations and decision-making processes
Client: $9 bn diversified industrial manufacturer with 42 global plants and a $2.8 bn procurement spend.
Challenge: Supply-chain volatility, 28-day cash-to-cash cycle, chronic working-capital leakage, and zero predictive capability.
StartDate Solution (11-month agentic AI program):
- Built a real-time digital twin of the entire source-to-pay and order-to-cash cycles on Databricks + Vertex AI
- Deployed 58 interconnected agents (procurement, logistics, treasury, sales ops) that negotiate, reroute, and hedge autonomously
- Private LLM trained on 15 years of contracts auto-renegotiates 63 % of supplier agreements annually
- Predictive liquidity agent with 180-day forward visibility and 96.4 % accuracy
Outcomes:
- Working capital released: $340 m permanently (net debt reduced 1.1 turns)
- Procurement savings: +11.8 % ($330 m annualized)
- On-time delivery: 72 % → 98.7 %
- Operating expense of affected functions down 41 %
- First enterprise in its sector to run >$1 bn of annual spend via fully autonomous agents
- Named to Gartner’s 2025 “AI Vanguard” list
These are not proofs-of-concept. These are production systems, live today, delivering nine- and ten-figure impact for clients who chose StartDate because we deliver what the Big Four promise—at the speed and certainty the market now demands.
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