Use Cases

Wherever you sit, Matchory has your back.

Strategy, sourcing, cost, risk, sustainability, innovation — every workflow on your plate runs faster and smarter on one verified supplier portfolio.

Find the use case that matches your day-to-day below. Each one is the same flywheel applied to a different corner of procurement.

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For Category Managers
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Category Strategy Development

Users of Matchory can perform continuous analysis of supply market to monitor new entrants and compare sub-sectors. Rapid identification of alternative global suppliers can also support your cost reduction and product/service availability processes.

Dynamic Market Insights

Stay ahead of market trends with real-time updates and data-driven insights, allowing category managers to adapt strategies to shifting market conditions and emerging opportunities.

Enhanced Supplier Collaboration

Quickly identify and segment suppliers by sub-sector, region, or specialty to build a diverse and resilient supply base tailored to your strategic needs.

Strategic Benchmarking

Leverage Matchory’s comprehensive database to benchmark suppliers across quality, pricing, sustainability, and reliability metrics, ensuring category strategies are informed by competitive intelligence.

Proactive Risk Mitigation

Continuously monitor the global supply landscape to identify and address potential risks, such as supplier dependency or geopolitical instability, ensuring a robust and secure category strategy.

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“Matchory played a critical role, in identifying new suppliers and in conducting an initial market analysis—covering market size, supplier barriers, spend analysis, and the development of our commodity groups”
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For Sourcing Managers
2

Supplier & Sourcing Selection

The heart of Matchory is the ability for companies to rapidly scan entire markets for suppliers meeting specific, detailed requirements for quality, cost, reliability, sustainability etc. By identifying a larger number of potential suppliers faster and better than possible with manual approaches category managers can ensure a competitive and balanced supplier base.

Access to Emerging Suppliers

Matchory’s platform surfaces innovative and niche suppliers, enabling procurement teams to discover partners that bring fresh ideas, cutting-edge technology, and unique capabilities to the table.

Challenge Existing Suppliers

Use insights from Matchory to engage current suppliers in competitive discussions, encouraging them to innovate and improve their offerings to maintain their position.

Tailored Supplier Collaboration

Identify suppliers with specialized expertise or R&D capabilities that align with your organization's innovation goals, fostering strategic partnerships that drive co-creation and product evolution.

Trendspotting for Future Opportunities

Stay ahead of industry trends by identifying suppliers who are leading the charge in sustainability, automation, and other transformative areas, positioning your organization as an innovation leader.

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"By leveraging advanced supplier screening tools and a comprehensive database, Jungheinrich was able to address its supply chain challenges effectively."
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For Cost & Negotiation Leads
3

Cost Optimisation

Identifying and pursuing cost-savings within your category is a key component of your cost optimisation work and Matchory can help by rapidly identifying suppliers to add competition to your negotiations and challenge your incumbents.

Increased Competitive Pressure

Matchory enables procurement teams to identify alternative suppliers quickly, fostering healthy competition that motivates existing suppliers to innovate and offer better value.

Uncover Unique Capabilities

Rapidly discover suppliers with specialized skills or advanced technologies that can enhance your products or processes, positioning your organization as a leader in innovation.

Encouraging Strategic Partnerships

By providing a broader view of the supplier landscape, Matchory helps identify partners who are eager to collaborate on innovative projects and co-develop solutions tailored to your needs.

Faster Time-to-Market for Innovations

The platform’s ability to streamline supplier discovery accelerates the process of bringing new ideas and products to market, giving your organization a competitive edge in dynamic industries.

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"Heavy rainfall had disrupted the supply chain for an essential chemical raw material needed for production. The shortage of this raw material supplier posed a challenge for production planning as well as project and time management."
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For Risk & Supply Chain Leads
4

Risk Management

Supply chain resilience in the face of geopolitical risks or potential disruptions is a constant concern and you must develop contingency plans and strategies. Matchory helps you reduce supplier dependency, and power alternative sourcing strategies with the ability to quicky and accurately identify alternate suppliers that meet your requirements and comply with your standards.

Comprehensive Risk Assessment

Matchory provides detailed insights into supplier financial stability, certifications, and compliance records, helping you identify and mitigate risks before they impact your operations.

Diversification Made Easy

Quickly identify suppliers across different geographies, industries, or sub-sectors, reducing dependency on single suppliers or regions and enhancing supply chain resilience.

Proactive Disruption Mitigation

Matchory’s real-time data and analytics enable procurement teams to anticipate potential disruptions and prepare alternative sourcing strategies well in advance.

Improved Supplier Monitoring

Continuously track supplier performance, compliance, and market dynamics to ensure ongoing alignment with your risk management objectives and business continuity plans.

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"With Matchory we bring transparency to the supplier market. Today, I know much faster which suppliers exist and can compare them directly and evaluate them more effectively."

Timo Rickermann Chief Procurement Officer, DMG Mori
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For Strategists & Analysts
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Market & Supplier Analysis

A key benefit of using Matchory’s Supplier Discovery platform is the ability to set up, run and refresh as many supplier scans as you want, whenever you want and get instant results back. Our category manager customers use this facility to do continuous assessment of their supplier markets: looking for emerging suppliers; comparing availability in different regions; identifying emerging regions and adapting their strategies as conditions change.

Real-Time Market Insights

Matchory provides up-to-date data on market trends, supplier movements, and regional dynamics, empowering you to make informed and agile decisions.

Competitive Landscape Analysis

Easily compare suppliers’ capabilities, pricing structures, and certifications across regions to identify the best-fit suppliers and benchmark market standards.

Emerging Market Identification

Discover new and growing supply regions to diversify your sourcing strategy, capitalize on emerging opportunities, and stay ahead of global supply chain shifts.

Tailored Supplier Scans

Set custom filters and parameters for supplier searches to generate highly targeted results, enabling you to align market insights with your organization’s unique goals and requirements.

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"With Matchory we bring transparency to the supplier market. Today, I know much faster which suppliers exist and can compare them directly and evaluate them more effectively."

Timo Rickermann Chief Procurement Officer, DMG Mori
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For Cross-functional Teams
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Internal Stakeholder Collaboration

Users of Matchory can perform continuous analysis of supply market to monitor new entrants and compare sub-sectors. Rapid identification of alternative global suppliers can also support your cost reduction and product/service availability processes

Centralized Collaboration Platform

Matchory provides a single source of truth where category managers and stakeholders can access shared supplier data, ensuring alignment and reducing miscommunication.

Streamlined Feedback Collection

Easily collect and consolidate feedback from stakeholders on supplier evaluations, helping to build consensus and make well-informed decisions.

Role-Based Access and Transparency

Enable different stakeholders to contribute to projects while maintaining control through role-based access, ensuring security and clear accountability.

Enhanced Cross-Functional Engagement

Matchory fosters seamless collaboration between procurement, finance, operations, and sustainability teams, enabling more holistic and strategic sourcing decisions.

For Compliance & ESG Leads
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Sustainability & Compliance

The Matchory Supplier Discovery platform can support your ESG-related processes by bringing transparency to your supply base.If the suppliers in your market publicly reference any certifications or qualifications that are important to your company then they will be rapidly identified and added to the longlist for you to review.Furthermore Mats, our AI copilot will help determine which certifications are relevant to your search so that you don’t miss anything important.

Streamlined Supplier Compliance Tracking

Matchory allows you to quickly identify and track suppliers' compliance with industry standards, regulations, and sustainability certifications, reducing the risk of non-compliance and ensuring that your suppliers align with your corporate values.

Automated ESG Reporting

The platform automates the collection and analysis of sustainability and compliance data, making it easier to generate reports and track your company's progress toward ESG goals without manual effort.

Customizable ESG Filters

Matchory offers customizable search filters that allow you to prioritize suppliers who meet your specific sustainability and compliance criteria, ensuring that your sourcing aligns with your environmental and social governance objectives.

Increased Transparency and Accountability

With access to detailed supplier profiles and certification information, Matchory helps bring greater transparency to your supply chain, empowering you to hold suppliers accountable to your sustainability and compliance standards.

For Innovation & R&D Procurement
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Supplier Innovation

The Matchory Supplier Discovery platform can support your innovation-related tasks by helping you find new and emerging suppliers that can fit the specific needs of your internal stakeholders. These exciting new suppliers could be used directly or you could use them to challenge your existing suppliers to innovate faster in the directions you need.

Access to a Global Pool of Innovative Suppliers

Matchory helps you discover new and emerging suppliers from diverse industries and regions, bringing fresh ideas and innovative solutions that can drive your business forward.

Collaborative Innovation Opportunities

The platform allows you to identify suppliers who are at the forefront of technological advancements and sustainability, fostering potential partnerships that can accelerate your innovation initiatives.

Competitive Supplier Benchmarking

Matchory's comprehensive supplier data allows you to benchmark suppliers' innovation capabilities, giving you the insights needed to push existing suppliers to adopt more forward-thinking practices and technologies.

Agile Supplier Selection for R&D Projects

With fast access to a wide range of suppliers, Matchory enables you to quickly find those that can meet the specific needs of your R&D teams, supporting the development of new products and solutions with innovative, high-potential partners.

"Matchory helps us to easily obtain very comprehensive information on the players in the markets relevant for us."

Dr. Alexander Brandt Chief expert digitalization in market and competitor analysis, Bosch
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Technology

The engine behind your portfolio intelligence

MatchoryID

Every supplier resolves to a universal, immutable identity. MatchoryID persists through mergers, rebrands, and relocations — connecting fragmented records across ERPs, spreadsheets, and emails into one stable anchor for all downstream intelligence.

Portfolio Benchmarking

Your portfolio, finally comparable against the global market. Once resolved and enriched, your suppliers sit structurally alongside a global index of 15M+ verified profiles — making consolidation potential, pricing gaps, missing alternatives, and resilience blind spots visible. Matchory provides the comparability. Your team builds the strategy.

Open Data Layer

One verified data layer for every consumer — humans, ERPs, AI agents. Microsoft Copilot, Claude, and your custom agents query the same truth via UI, REST API, webhooks, and MCP. Three separated intelligence layers (Global Index, Customer Portfolio, Agent Enrichments) with confidence scores on every data point.

Built for Enterprise Trust.

ISO 27001 certified, GDPR compliant, EU-sovereign by default — Matchory clears the security and compliance bar your enterprise customers already expect.

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Procurement category, 2023
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