Scoutbee is building a knowledge graph with Neo4j to power its supplier discovery and intelligence platform. The knowledge graph will integrate Scoutbee's data with external sources to create rich supplier profiles connected by relationships. This will allow Scoutbee to provide explainable answers to customer questions about suppliers and their relationships. The knowledge graph is part of Scoutbee's effort to democratize data access and build a foundation for continual data-driven process improvements.

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Knowledge graphs
at scoutbee with
neo4j
Nischal Harohalli Padmanabha
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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○ Founded: 2015 Würzburg
○ First product launch: 2017
○ Investment to date: $76M
○ Global Presence: Germany, USA, UK, India, China,
Malaysia, Philippines
○ Employees: 140+
○ Identified more new suppliers than anyone else on
the planet for partners like Unilever, Siemens, Audi
and many more
AI Powered Supplier Data
Platform

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Traditional
Supplier
Discovery
Smarter
Supplier
Discovery
Approx.
100 - 180
working hours
Approx.
8 - 12
working hours
RFI
7 suppliers
Longlist
9 suppliers
Supplier
Screening
10 suppliers
Shortlist
6 suppliers
RFP
3 suppliers
RFI
50 suppliers
Longlist
100 suppliers
AI-Supplier
Screening
1,000 suppliers
Shortlist
20 suppliers
RFP
10 suppliers
24 weeks
6 weeks
No match
Good match
Great match

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The challenge.
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The solutions?
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Data Foundation for
improved resilience
Resilient
Supply
Base
More Alternative
Suppliers
Easier Supplier
Collaboration
Better Supplier
Information
Richer Market
Information
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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Actionable Data to
Proactive Processes
Consolidate
Suppliers
Enrich with
External Data
Search
Commodity
or Supplier
Compare &
Evaluate
5
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2
3
4
Data Foundation
360° Supplier
Profiles
Discover
Onboard &
Collaborate
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Potential
Suppliers
Scoutbee
Data
Supplier
Data
3rd Party
Data
Internal
Data
Existing
Suppliers
DISCOVERY INTELLIGENCE
AI-powered Data
Foundation
Scoutbee
Data
Foundation
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The future of procurement is data.
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Data challenges
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Heterogeneous data Varied Data ownership Partial information
Varied data value
streams
Varied Data consumers We don’t know what we
don’t know?

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Present continuous, solution.
Suppliers are entities in the real world and
not just an entry on the database. They have
relationships with other suppliers and
depending on your question, you might get a
very different perspective of a supplier.
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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Present continuous, solution.
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With our solution…
Not only do we want to answer our
customers questions as accurately and as
quickly as possible, but we also want to
provide our reasons behind our answers.
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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So who are we
partnering to build
our knowledge
graph with?
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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So, why neo4j?
Data Democratisation
at scoutbee
Community and
ecosystem
Enterprise Offering
Very friendly sales
team ;)
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The big picture
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.
Data Pillars
at scoutbee
People Democratisatio
n
Governance Technology

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The big picture
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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The big picture
Better Data, Better Decisions, Better World.

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The impact of the work.
Data integrity,
compliance and
governance
Iterative data
modeling
Unique value
proposition in the
market
1 2 3 4
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Reduction in time and
cost for data
management with
increase in data
consumers and variation
in data.
Explainable AI, reducing
time for customers to
validate the answers
provided by scoutbee
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22. Better Data
Better Decisions
Better World.
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