Customer story - Consumer Goods
Global Snack Food & Confectionery Company achieves 80% faster procurement approval cycles
Outcome
Mondelez
The impact
80%
faster procurement approval cycle time per category
93%+
of standard PO approvals processed without manual escalation
45%
reduction in tail spend anomalies identified and corrected
The challenge
Where the work was getting stuck.
Mondelez International, the global snacks powerhouse behind Oreo, Cadbury, Toblerone, and dozens of other iconic brands, managed procurement across a vast multi-category supplier base spanning ingredients, packaging, and co-manufacturers in dozens of countries. Procurement approval workflows were lengthy — requiring manual routing through category managers, finance controllers, and legal review for above-threshold transactions. Tail spend lacked visibility, and spend analytics required days of manual data extraction before insights were available to category teams.
The solution
One intelligence layer across the workflow.
Stargo Stardox Agentic AI was deployed across Mondelez's procurement and finance functions to automate approval workflow routing, spend classification, and supplier compliance monitoring. The Stardox Agentic AI evaluates incoming PO requests against spend policies, risk thresholds, and supplier status, routing approvals automatically to the appropriate approval tier or flagging exceptions for manual review. Category-level spend analytics are refreshed continuously, giving procurement leads real-time visibility into commitments, savings performance, and supplier risk — without waiting for periodic report runs.
"Speed in procurement means better prices, stronger supplier relationships, and faster product launches. Stargo gave us the speed without sacrificing the governance."
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