Mercurial & AI
Combine your pricing data with the best of AI
Using AI to make the most of your mercurials: profitability and time savings
Mercuriale 2.0
Nowadays, a "mercuriale" is an internal or contractual document listing the products whose price has been negotiated. A product appearing on a price list is therefore either fixed for a given period, or subject to negotiated price variations.
Mercurial advantages
The simplified formalism of a price list makes it possible to quickly check the conditions negotiated on a yearly basis or according to the quantities purchased. Purchasing budgets are controlled, which theoretically allows us to aim for optimum profitability.
Mercurial stakes
A mercurial database serves as a centralized reference base to guarantee the conformity of purchasing policy across all subsidiaries or users. Negotiation opportunities are easier to identify, but only if you cross-reference your mercurial data with the extraction and calculation power of AI.
Price anomaly detection
AI compares incoming invoices with negotiated prices from the mercurial database, and automatically detects pricing inconsistencies, discrepancies and non-application of volume discounts. As soon as invoicing errors are detected, AI can generate alert messages to the suppliers concerned at the click of a button, or in real time, to ensure that the dispute is properly resolved.
Time for strategy
By automating tasks related to transactional processing and repetitive analysis, AI frees up time for strategic thinking and better supplier relationship management.
Up-to-date sourcing
By cross-referencing price and quantity data from the price list with the purchasing department's objectives, AI can recommend alternative suppliers based on quotes or archived invoices.
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AI & mercurial: the weapon of mass negotiation
- AI purchasing platform
Since the advent of AI in management assistance, mercurials have become genuine negotiation and cost control tools. But there’s one condition for this: the choice of an effective AI solution, specifically designed for processing the numerical data managed by a purchasing department.
- Cross-referencing data and controlling costs
Integrating Artificial Intelligence (AI) into the processing of a price list increases tenfold its potential for cross-referencing data and controlling costs. AI transforms this static tool into a dynamic strategic lever at the service of your profitability (saving time and detecting over-invoicing).
- Time is margin
Decision-making is accelerated, regardless of the formalism of supplier documents (quotations, purchase orders, invoices). A medium-sized SME can gain 3 margin points and save 4 hours of work on data processing and supplier reminders.
Cost optimization and negotiating levers
Make framework agreements more profitable by cross-referencing purchasing data
Predictive price analysis :
AI analyzes massive volumes of data in real time, which it cross-references with market data, making it possible to anticipate future price trends and thus conduct negotiations ahead of schedule.
Opportunities for higher margins
The AI compares the prices on your price list with market prices and competing offers, to alert buyers to conditions that need to be renegotiated. AI can then simulate the positive impact on operating margins of different negotiation opportunities, and propose optimal pricing scenarios.
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