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Garment · case study

Multi-site vendor consolidation, surfaced from real spend.

Each plant procured the same fabrics and findings from different vendors at meaningfully different prices, with no central view.

Outcome
$840K

annualized consolidation savings, top two categories.

Customer

Apparel and uniform manufacturer, four plants

The source stack.

The systems Polymr reads from and writes back to for this workflow.

  • Microsoft Dynamics 365
  • Excel
  • Custom vendor portal

Result from a configured pilot on customer data.

What Polymr automated.

Historical purchase orders, supplier quotes, and delivery performance reconciled into a single vendor-scoring view per SKU. Consolidation recommendations issued to plant procurement leads with savings model.

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What this looks like inside Polymr.

The screenshot below is the live tenant view that powers the workflow described above.

/configure/vendorsVendor scorecard view
Polymr vendor configuration view with scorecards and consolidation recommendations

The same fabric, four prices. Until the spend hits one view.

Each plant procured the same materials at meaningfully different prices, against the same suppliers, with no central view. Polymr reconciles a year of POs and supplier scorecards into a per-SKU vendor comparison.

SKU-FAB-WOVN-200gsm
Vendor scorecard
  • Plant A vendor
    $4.18/u92% OTD
  • Plant B vendor
    $3.92/u89% OTD
  • Plant C vendor
    $4.41/u95% OTD
  • Plant D vendor
    $4.08/u87% OTD

Recommendation. Consolidate to Plant B vendor at a 2-quarter glide. Estimated $310K/yr.

SKU-TRIM-ZIP-22cm
Vendor scorecard
  • Plant A vendor
    $0.42/u88% OTD
  • Plant B vendor
    $0.51/u96% OTD
  • Plant C vendor
    $0.39/u84% OTD
  • Plant D vendor
    $0.44/u90% OTD

Recommendation. Split: Plant C vendor for runs above 5,000; Plant B vendor for critical-finish runs. Est $530K/yr.

$840K annualized.

Modeled across the top two consolidation categories in the first pilot quarter.

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