GATX saw tangible results within weeks after onboarding Levelpath. One of the first major improvements came with the use of Levelpath’s AI Copilot pre-built sourcing prompts. By clicking one button within the platform, GATX’s procurement team is now able to quickly summarize supplier pricing, draft a description of services, and note some risk factors across proposals within seconds. Bid comparisons that used to take a lot of manual time, now are completed and shared with business stakeholders almost instantly. “AI Bid analysis now with one click of a button literally takes 15 to 20 seconds. It’s especially powerful when we’re managing complex bids with 10 to 12 proposals; what used to be manual and take a long time is completed in seconds.” explains their Director of Sourcing and Procurement.

Within just one week of kicking off their implementation, GATX launched sourcing projects through Levelpath. Early user adoption followed quickly. On Day One, GATX achieved a 29% adoption rate from its shop stakeholders. Levelpath partnered with GATX to provide training for all their stakeholders to encourage adoption and compliance, empowering everyone to start getting value.

In another instance, procurement needed to source lobbying support, a category the team had never managed. Using Copilot, the team generated a high-quality RFP in seconds, sent it to 12 firms, and then used AI to summarize responses, shortlist candidates, and even generate interview questions for final vendor selection. “Sometimes we don’t really have the availability to do an RFP, but with Levelpath we are able to do 10 in the same time it used to take to do 1,” said the SVP of Operational Finance, Procurement, and Supply Chain.

In parallel, GATX has begun migrating critical procurement data into Levelpath, including contracts and category strategies. Gathering information from documents with Levelpath’s Optical Character Recognition (OCR) capabilities will save time from previously manual processes. This shift allows the organization to start building a centralized, structured foundation for managing procurement operations more effectively.

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