Analysis of spend by vendor through the analysis of
the vendor master file, includes de-duplicating vendor accounts and
assigning an eOTD Class to vendor accounts. The eOTD class should
be translated to a hierarchical classification (UNSPSC, eCl@ss, CPV,
Custom classification) through a look up table. May include identifying
family trees and grouping spend by ultimate parent company. The purpose
of the analysis is to support vendor optimization programs which typically
involve assessment of risk by class and a plan to either increase
vendor numbers to mitigate risk or to decrease vendor number to improve
pricing.