Lamb Weston unlocked granular spend visibility, without changing a single tool.
Lamb Weston runs one of the most complex supply chains in frozen food, yet its EMEA procurement team was flying blind, with millions of euros locked inside vague "miscellaneous" categories in a suite they couldn't fully use. Mithra wrapped around their workflow and handed back clean, classified spend, with no new tools to learn.
Procurement Excellence · EMEA
Frozen food · Multi-region
"Business value like never before."
Jeroen Teuns leads Procurement Excellence for EMEA at Lamb Weston. His category managers had a capable procurement suite, but the data underneath it wasn't good enough to act on. Mithra fixed the data, in place, without asking the team to change how they work.
"Mithra empowered our category managers and our procurement suite to deliver business value like never before."
Jeroen TeunsManager Procurement Excellence EMEA, Lamb Weston
Flying blind inside their own procurement suite.
Lamb Weston already owned a procurement suite, but it could only be as good as the data flowing into it. Overly broad categorization left millions of euros in vague "miscellaneous" buckets, masking savings, compliance risk, and consolidation opportunities.
- Inaccurate, overly broad categorization inside the procurement suite
- Millions locked in vague "miscellaneous" categories, hiding savings
- No in-house capacity or expertise to improve data granularity
- No budget or bandwidth to change tools or rewire processes
- Category teams flying blind, especially across tail spend
"We had a procurement suite we couldn't fully leverage, simply because of data quality, and no internal bandwidth to fix it ourselves."
Wrap around the suite. Don't replace it.
Mithra slotted in around Lamb Weston's existing workflow, receiving raw spend, transforming it, and syncing enriched, categorized data straight back into the procurement suite the team already used.
Onboard, no IT
The team simply exported raw spend into Mithra's secure cloud workspace. Mithra handled mapping, quality validation, and onboarding autonomously, capturing all scoped data within days.
Classify & enrich
Tailored models learned Lamb Weston's preferred taxonomy and, using external supplier data, assigned every transaction its most granular category, each with a confidence level and reason code.
Closed-loop sync
Enriched, categorized spend flowed back into the procurement suite, creating a sustainable foundation for analytics and decision-making across the group, not a one-off cleanse.
Empower the team
For the first time, category managers across regions could rely on accurate, harmonized data inside their own analytics module, and focus on category strategy instead of cleaning spreadsheets.
Accurate spend, where the team already works.
100% of Lamb Weston's spend was auto-classified at over 95% accuracy, every transaction carrying a confidence level and reason code. Mithra also surfaced the key taxonomy improvement areas, with actionable suggestions the team could act on directly.
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- Confidence level and reason code on every transaction
- Key taxonomy improvement areas surfaced with actionable suggestions
- Fully integrated and synced back into the existing procurement suite
- Models that keep improving with every user interaction
No new tools. Just data the team can finally trust.
Tail spend in focus
Categories that used to disappear into "miscellaneous" are now granular and queryable, turning the long tail from a blind spot into a savings pipeline.
Suite finally pays off
The procurement suite the team already paid for now runs on data it can trust, so its analytics module delivers the value it always promised.
Strategy, not cleanup
Category managers spend their time on category strategy and realizing value to the business, instead of cleansing and enriching data by hand.
"If you have a procurement suite and you're still wrestling with unclear categories or hidden savings, the answer isn't more tools. It's better data, delivered into the tools you already have."
Jeroen TeunsManager Procurement Excellence EMEA, Lamb Weston
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