What is bad supplier data actually costing you?
The cost hides in plain sight: duplicate payments, manual rework, stalled AI and ERP initiatives, and reporting nobody can fully defend. Most teams have come to treat it as normal. It isn’t, and it’s measurable.
Calculate your cost exposure Take the 3-minute check$12.9M
average annual cost of poor data quality per organization¹
82%
of procurement and sourcing professionals are less than fully confident in their supplier data²
5%
of revenue lost to fraud each year, with billing schemes among the most common forms³
$2.9B
lost to business email compromise in a single year⁴
Where is it costing you?
Bad supplier data sends different bills to different teams. Here’s where it shows up.
ERP migration
Duplicates and unresolved records carry forward into the new system.
AI and analytics
Models trained on fragmented, duplicate supplier records.
M&A integration
Two vendor masters that never fully reconcile.
Reporting and compliance
Numbers built on self-reported, unverified data.
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1. Gartner, 2020. Average annual cost of poor data quality. 2. Supplier.io research: share of procurement and sourcing professionals reporting less than complete confidence in their supplier data. 3. Association of Certified Fraud Examiners, Occupational Fraud 2024: A Report to the Nations. 4. FBI Internet Crime Report, 2023, business email compromise losses.