How Techem surfaces overspending, enforces contract clauses
automatically, and equips negotiation teams with facts.
The Challenge
Techem is a leading service provider for smart and sustainable buildings. The company's services cover energy management and resource conservation, healthy living and process efficiency in properties.
Techem’s procurement team is managing a large portfolio of supplier and service contracts. These contracts contain critical clauses around pricing indexes, rebates, service level penalties, and delivery obligations. But the sheer complexity and tight time constraints in supply chain execution made it impossible to track the application of every clause and penalty.
Additionally, ERP systems can not reflect every negotiated term, especially for indirect spends, meaning Techem incurred overspend without realizing it.
The Solution
At Techem, qado was configured to ingest existing supplier contracts and relevant documents. It automatically extracts key contract terms: index-adjustment clauses, kickbacks, delivery terms, and penalty provisions.
qado’s overspend agents were deployed to identify where commitments in contracts were not being enforced in purchase orders and invoices. Specifically, they:
Besides that, qado’s intelligence platform allows buyers to:
The Impact
With qado in place, Techem achieved fast-moving, high-impact results:
