Eluvium reads your own purchase history, normalises it to true cost, and surfaces where you are overpaying. A single market test typically reveals 10 to 15 percent of recoverable spend. Every figure is backed by your data, so the saving holds up when finance asks.
Savings opportunities
Why teams overpay
Prices creep up when nobody re-tests the market. Incumbents raise quotes to find the ceiling and only drop back when challenged, and on the indirect spend that never goes under contract, increases pass through unchecked. The comparison that would catch it lives in someone’s Excel file or their inbox, and when they leave, it leaves with them.
How it works
Six steps, one flow: your spend goes in, proven savings come out, and every result sharpens the next one.
01
No dirty data, no manual mapping.
Import an accounts payable export or connect your ERP. Ellie parses the line items, normalises supplier names, merges duplicates hiding under different spellings, categorises every purchase order, and builds a true-cost baseline from what you actually paid. You review and correct before anything runs, so the foundation is one you trust.
↓ merged & categorised
02
The one number your current tools do not show.
Two offers with the same headline price are not equal if one pays upfront and the other pays over twelve months. Eluvium discounts every offer and every historical price to today’s money using your cost of capital, so you compare like for like. This is the calculation good buyers do by hand on every deal, done automatically on all of them.
At a 4% monthly cost of capital, the higher sticker price is the cheaper deal. Change the rate and the ranking can flip — so we apply it consistently, to your history and to new quotes.
03
Cost avoidance, not just cost reduction.
The fastest savings need no RFQ and no new supplier. From your data alone, Eluvium flags the same item bought at four different prices across sites, payment terms drifting off what you agreed, an incumbent whose price climbed 14 percent with no contract change, and spend running outside a contract you already hold. You recover the money by correcting what you are already doing. This is the saving finance rarely tracks and always values.
Same spec purchased at 4 price points across plants. Harmonise to the lowest internal price — no supplier change or RFQ needed.
Contracted at Net 30, paid on Net 15 across 6 recent POs. Reverting to agreed terms recovers the working capital — no renegotiation.
04
Strategic sourcing, folded in as a savings lever.
When a fresh quote will beat your price, Eluvium sources it. It finds qualified suppliers, including the actual producer behind the distributors you may be paying a margin to, runs a structured RFQ so every quote arrives in the same comparable shape, and consolidates spend you have fragmented across several suppliers into one that will take the whole category at a better price. Sourcing here is not a separate product to learn; it is what happens when the saving requires a market event.
RFQ · Corrugated Boxes · quotes normalised to true cost
Every quote arrives in the same comparable shape — same spec, same terms basis, same true-cost math.
05
Scannable in under a minute, defensible upward.
The result is not a table for a manager to interpret under time pressure. It is a directive summary: which supplier to pick and why, a true-cost comparison, and flags for anything that needs a human eye — budget breach, a new supplier, a spec gap, a slow response. Export it to PDF or Excel and it becomes the page that justifies the decision to your management.
Executive summary · RFQ-2026-031
Recommend Supplier B — 14% below your current baseline at true cost, spec confirmed, references validated.
06
Every outcome makes the next number sharper.
Eluvium records every result, won or not, with the real price behind it. Last year’s prices inform this year’s — you paid this much last year, that is above inflation, look again. Your savings and ROI report tracks cumulative savings and cost avoidance over time, which is the number that makes renewal an easy yes. This closed loop is the structural advantage over a spreadsheet or a general AI tool, where the data leaves no trace.
Cumulative savings · 12 months
$2.4M
Savings & ROI report
Savings are measured against your own paid prices, not a vendor’s estimate. Internally observed, defensible, audit-ready.
True-cost comparison adjusts for payment terms and the time value of money, so a lower sticker price never fools you into the more expensive deal.
Price harmonisation, contract compliance, and caught price drift recover money with no new supplier and no onboarding friction.
The more you run, the sharper the baselines and the stronger the renewal case. Your history stays in the platform, not in a departed employee’s inbox.
Customer results
reduction in packaging costs
Eight manufacturers facing double-digit packaging inflation joined a collective sourcing event on Eluvium. The AI engaged 30+ suppliers, evaluated bids, and delivered a shortlist in two weeks — cutting costs by 29% across every participating buyer.
“We uploaded our spend data, and within ten days we had supplier quotes back without our team lifting a finger. We’re on track to save 31% on packaging costs.”
“As a smaller buyer, we never had the volume to negotiate meaningfully. Eluvium gave us access to pricing we couldn’t have reached alone.”
An accounts payable export with line items: supplier, description or category, unit price, currency, quantity, payment terms, and invoice or payment date. Column names do not need to match; Ellie maps them on import.
Each buyer’s data is isolated, and it stays inside the platform rather than in ad hoc spreadsheets or a general AI chat.
Against a baseline built from your own paid prices, normalised to true cost using payment terms and your cost of capital. When you go to market, the estimate is replaced by the validated saving from real quotes.
No. A large share of savings comes from price harmonisation, contract compliance, and catching unjustified increases, none of which require a new supplier.
The initial analysis surfaces opportunities with estimated savings on your first data import. Validated savings follow once quotes return on the ones you pursue.
Yes for sourcing and comparison.