You Can't Do Category Management Without Clean Procurement Data.
Most procurement teams know what they want to achieve. The data underneath is what's stopping them.
Pearstop fixes that automatically, at scale.
Your procurement data is costing you more than you think
Without a clean spend baseline, every sourcing decision, negotiation, and cost reduction initiative is built on guesswork.
- Invoice and supplier databases are messy, inconsistent, and impossible to analyse at scale
- Manual categorisation takes weeks and is riddled with errors — destroying the integrity of your spend analysis
- Without clean spend data, category management is impossible and supplier negotiations are guesswork
- Manual or offshore classification is slow, inconsistent, and doesn't learn, meaning you repeat the same work every time you onboard a new supplier or customer.
Pearstop doesn't replace your buyers. It removes the repetitive work so they can focus on the decisions that actually require human judgement, supplier negotiations, contract strategy, and category management.
How It Works
From raw invoice data to a clean spend baseline — in three steps.
Connect Your Data
Upload invoice exports, supplier lists, and purchase order data in any format — spreadsheets, ERP exports, CSV files.
Auto-Categorisation Engine
Pearstop automatically categorises your spend using UNSPSC standards, replicating expert-level tagging at scale — 95% without manual effort.
Clean Spend Baseline
Receive a verified, structured spend baseline ready for procurement analytics, sourcing decisions, and supplier negotiations.
Key Benefits
What you gain when your procurement data is finally clean.
95% Less Manual Work
Automated categorisation eliminates weeks of manual tagging — your team focuses on decisions, not data prep.
UNSPSC Compliant
Industry-standard classification that integrates with any procurement platform, ERP, or reporting tool.
Full Spend Visibility
See exactly where your money goes — by category, supplier, and business unit — in one trusted view.
Faster Sourcing
Clean data means faster, more confident sourcing decisions and stronger negotiating positions.
Results That Speak for Themselves
Real outcomes from procurement teams in technical industries.
Of spend lines categorised automatically using UNSPSC standards — no manual effort required.
Average reduction in time to produce a reliable spend baseline compared to manual methods.
Clean spend baselines reveal hidden savings opportunities that were invisible in dirty data.
"We had thousands of product lines that needed to be categorised before we could even begin to understand our costs. Pearstop classified 95% of them in under a week. That would have taken our team six months and still wouldn't have been this accurate."
Frequently Asked Questions
Straight answers about how Pearstop's procurement data quality work works.
What is procurement data quality and why does it matter?
Procurement data quality refers to the accuracy, consistency, and completeness of spend data across invoices, purchase orders, and supplier records. For hard services companies managing decentralised purchasing, poor data quality makes category management impossible — teams can't see what they're buying, from whom, or at what cost. Pearstop automates the cleaning and classification of procurement data for companies like Strukton, processing over 35,000 lines a month and supporting 1–3% cost savings through better category management and supplier consolidation.
What does the data cleaning process actually involve?
We start with your raw spend export — from SAP, Oracle, or any ERP. We deduplicate supplier records, resolve naming inconsistencies, standardise description fields, fill in missing data where possible, and classify every line against a taxonomy such as UNSPSC. The output is a clean, structured dataset ready for category management, reporting, or further analysis.
How long does it take to clean a large procurement dataset?
Most initial datasets are returned within a few business days regardless of volume. Ongoing classification — such as Strukton's 35,000 lines per month — runs automatically once the pipeline is set up. There's no manual effort required on your side after the initial data handover.
Do we need to change our ERP or internal systems?
No. Pearstop works with your existing data exports. You don't need to change your ERP, connect any systems, or install anything. We take what you already have — however messy — and return it clean and classified. Integration into your workflows is straightforward once the data is ready.
What kind of cost savings can we expect?
Based on client results, clean procurement data typically supports 1–3% cost savings through better category management and supplier consolidation. The actual figure depends on how fragmented your current data is and how actively your procurement team acts on the insights — but the baseline improvement in visibility alone changes how decisions get made.
Ready to Clean Your Procurement Data?
Book a 7-minute discovery call and see exactly how Pearstop builds your spend baseline.
Book a 7-Minute Discovery