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How AI Should-Cost Modeling Improved Supplier Negotiation and Cost Visibility

How one client in the specialized Oil & Gas industry, the lack of objective data translated directly into lost negotiation leverage and margin erosion.

Overcoming Strategic Constraints: 
Cost Opacity and Supplier Monopoly

The client faced a critical issue of Cost Opacity. Their supplier both designed and manufactured complex parts, maintaining a monopoly on data by providing no cost breakdown. Previously, the company was often limited by a reliance on suppliers to define where costs were originating. This lack of objective cost-truth threatened their target cost savings of 15-20%.

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Before True ValueHub, our sourcing was often limited by cost opacity. By generating objective cost-truth, True ValueHub’s Al has helped catapult our savings and provided the defensible leverage needed to negotiate below market value. It has truly helped us get in the room with key stakeholders and project savings with much higher confidence.

Strategic Sourcing

Project Process Manager

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True ValueHub has transformed our cost engineering and cost model development, cutting work that once took weeks and months down to days. With direct access to global data and data‑backed cost models, we enter negotiations with confidence and consistently drive meaningful savings.

Automotive OEM Customer

Senior Group Manager, Cost Engineering

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Transforming Procurement with AI-Powered Cost Intelligence

See how True ValueHub helped a leading manufacturer uncover cost truth from limited data, strengthen supplier negotiations, and drive measurable savings through AI-powered should costing and procurement intelligence.

What if you could understand how much it really costs your supplier to manufacture every part and assembly before

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