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Read the systems as they are
Start with SAP, Dynamics, legacy SQL exports, or CSV files. A useful spend view can begin before a clean ERP migration.
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Post-close operations
Post-Acquisition Supplier Consolidation
Find the real supplier spend across mixed ERPs after an acquisition, with the evidence for each match kept visible.
Source systems
ERP exports
Vendor master
AP invoices
Rebate agreements
Intercompany records
Beetl answer
Consolidated supplier spend
Problem signals
The first months after a bolt-on acquisition often produce several versions of the same basic report. The HQ ERP has one top-supplier list. The acquired plant has another. A legacy export from the previous owner has a third. The disagreement is easy to dismiss as master-data cleanup, but in procurement it can change the amount of money the group thinks it has saved.
The common case is mundane. A supplier appears under its legal entity in one system, a brand name in another, and an old acquired-company name in a third. Until those records are treated as one relationship, the group may miss a rebate threshold it has already crossed. The same problem works in reverse when intercompany invoices are counted as external spend and inflate the procurement baseline.
Beetl connects the ERPs read-only and treats supplier matching as a decision with evidence, rather than a hidden step inside a spreadsheet. The operating partner gets a better answer to a simple question: what do we actually spend with this supplier across the group?
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A top-supplier report changes depending on which ERP exported it.
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Rebate thresholds are crossed at group level but invisible at plant level.
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Intercompany invoices look like third-party spend until someone checks the evidence.
Beetl workflow
The work happens before the dashboard. If two ERP records are treated as the same supplier, the reason for that match has to remain visible.
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Make the match explainable
A supplier match may come from a VAT ID, an IBAN, a legal-name change, a group rebate agreement, or an acquisition history. The evidence matters as much as the match.
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Keep the decision for next month
When procurement confirms a match, Beetl keeps that decision with the supporting rows so the next reconciliation can start from prior work.
Expected outputs
The output should be something procurement can use in a negotiation and finance can trace when the number is challenged.
- A consolidated spend view that shows which supplier records were merged.
- Rebate opportunities with the invoices and agreements behind them.
- Intercompany corrections that finance can trace back to the source.
Find the hidden supplier-spend picture
Start with one vendor master and one AP export. The first review is simply whether the same suppliers are already showing up under different names, entities, or ERP schemas.
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