Customer story - Consumer Goods

Global Food & Beverage Company achieves 85% reduction in procurement processing time

Item: Stargo
Author: Chief Procurement Officer

Outcome

Danone

Industry: Food & Beverage — Consumer Goods
Region: Global — France / Europe
Use cases: Procurement, Compliance, Finance
Solutions: Procurement Automation, Compliance Monitoring, Spend Intelligence

The impact

85%
reduction in procurement processing time per transaction
94%+
automated invoice matching accuracy across categories
60%
faster supplier onboarding cycle

The challenge

Where the work was getting stuck.

Danone, a global leader in dairy, plant-based, waters, infant nutrition, and medical nutrition products, managed procurement across a highly complex supplier base spanning hundreds of categories and geographies. Manual invoice processing, supplier qualification, and compliance tracking created recurring bottlenecks in the procurement cycle. Finance teams spent significant time reconciling invoices against purchase orders across SAP and legacy systems, and supplier compliance reporting required manual data aggregation that delayed decision-making.

The solution

One intelligence layer across the workflow.

Stargo Stardox Agentic AI was integrated into Danone's procurement infrastructure to automate invoice-to-PO matching, supplier compliance monitoring, and spend classification. The Stardox Agentic AI handles routine transaction processing end-to-end, while surfacing exceptions — including supplier certification gaps, pricing deviations, and delivery condition failures — in a unified compliance dashboard. Finance teams now receive pre-validated invoice batches for approval rather than raw data for review, compressing processing cycles from days to hours.

"Supplier compliance used to be a quarterly exercise. With Stargo, it's continuous. We identify risks in real time and address them before they reach our production lines."
Chief Procurement Officer - Danone