Enhancing Supplier Performance and Spend Visibility

The client is a leading public agency dedicated to sustainability, transforming waste into valuable resources such as recycled water, energy, and materials. Serving more than 5.5 million residents, the agency oversees multiple large-scale projects and initiatives, making it a key pillar in regional environmental management.

Background

As Los Angeles County Sanitation Districts’ (LACSD) operations grew, the complexity of its procurement processes increased significantly. Managing requisitions, purchase orders, and supplier performance across multiple systems became difficult and time-consuming. The agency needed greater visibility into its end-to-end procurement cycle to improve efficiency, control costs, and strengthen supplier relationships. Here are few key challenges faced by the client:

• Limited visibility into purchase requisitions, orders, and supplier performance across departments​
• Difficulty in tracking procurement efficiency and identifying areas for process improvement​
• Lack of consolidated insights to detect price variances and potential savings opportunities​
• Inefficient monitoring of supplier reliability, delivery quality, and purchasing trends​
• Time-consuming, manual reporting processes with limited analytical depth

We deployed our prebuilt flagship solution, branded as ‘DiLytics Procurement Insight Solution,’ which is approved by Oracle Corporation and available on Oracle Marketplace. Leveraging the solution’s rich prebuilt content, DiLytics was able to meet LACSD’s business requirements with minimal customization, ensuring a seamless fit for their needs. This streamlined deployment process enabled LACSD to achieve a rapid time-to-market of just two months. DiLytics also followed a proven 5-step methodology to ensure smooth integration into LACSD’s workflow, blending out-of-the-box capabilities with tailored adjustments.

1. Initiate and Provision ​
2. Deploy Insight Solution Objects ​
3. Load and Verify Data ​
4. Fit-Gap, Design and Develop Solution ​
5. Deploy Solution

With the DiLytics Procurement Insight Solution, LACSD was able to track and analyze key business metricsacross essential procurement areas, including: ​

• Purchase Requisitions – Requisition volumes, trends, detailed statuses, and supplier performance​​
• Purchase Orders – Order activity, purchasing trends, and supplier reliability and efficiency

Results

The client achieved several improvements across procurement operations, including:

• Achieved full visibility from requisition to supplier performance​
• Improved supplier reliability through real-time performance tracking​
• Reduced purchasing costs by identifying spend and price variances​
• Streamlined procurement processes with automated analytics​
• Enhanced purchasing decisions with accurate, on-demand insights​
• Strengthened audit readiness with transparent procurement reporting

Tech Stack Summary 

Data Source: Oracle E-Business Suite and Oracle Primavera Unifier ​

Data Integration: Oracle Data Integrator ​

Data Warehouse: Oracle Autonomous Data Warehouse ​

Data Visualization Tool: Oracle Analytics Cloud and Microsoft Power BI ​