External Intelligence

From external signals to better decisions

Vision AI: from camera image to direct action.

Turns market data, news, price trends, legislation and other external sources into clear guidance for your operations. That way you can anticipate risks earlier, spot opportunities faster and make decisions based on the world outside your organisation, not just internal data.

Turn external data into a strategic advantage.

Important signals are often outside your own systems: market prices, weather impacts, competitor activity, and changes in laws and regulations. With External Intelligence, we collect, structure and translate that external information into actionable insights for procurement, production and commerce. This creates an additional layer of information that helps you steer faster and more accurately.

Use cases

Use cases proven in practice

External Intelligence helps organisations directly connect external developments to operational and commercial decisions.

Purchasing

Monitor market prices, raw material trends and supply chain risks, so you can make faster adjustments to supplier selection, cost price and availability.

Purchasing

Monitor market prices, raw material trends and supply chain risks, so you can make faster adjustments to supplier selection, cost price and availability.

Suppliers

Combines internal performance with external market information to assess suppliers, flag risks early and make alternatives clear during disruptions.

Suppliers

Combines internal performance with external market information to assess suppliers, flag risks early and make alternatives clear during disruptions.

Production planning

Enriches production planning with external factors such as weather, seasonal patterns and market trends, so that volumes, capacity and timing better align with expected demand.

Production planning

Enriches production planning with external factors such as weather, seasonal patterns and market trends, so that volumes, capacity and timing better align with expected demand.

Sales

Discover potential customers through external data sources and support pricing decisions by linking external signals to internal sales.

Sales

Discover potential customers through external data sources and support pricing decisions by linking external signals to internal sales.

Compliance

Tracks changes in laws and regulations, making compliance less manual and reactive.

Compliance

Tracks changes in laws and regulations, making compliance less manual and reactive.

Market & competition

Combines external sources such as market prices and competitor information to identify opportunities, risks and commercial moves earlier.

Market & competition

Combines external sources such as market prices and competitor information to identify opportunities, risks and commercial moves earlier.

The building blocks

Our external modules

Smart modules that automatically structure external data and market signals and turn them into direct actions. Flexible to deploy and scalable for any workflow.

Inkoop

Market price monitoring

Tracks market prices and flags changes immediately.

Inkoop

Market price monitoring

Tracks market prices and flags changes immediately.

Verkoop

Lead Discovery Engine

Automatically identifies new commercial opportunities in the market.

Verkoop

Lead Discovery Engine

Automatically identifies new commercial opportunities in the market.

Logistiek

Traffic and delays

Analyses traffic data and predicts transport delays.

Logistiek

Traffic and delays

Analyses traffic data and predicts transport delays.

Finance

Market benchmarking

Compares performance with market and competitor data.

Finance

Market benchmarking

Compares performance with market and competitor data.

HR / Workfoce

Talent sourcing

Automatically finds suitable candidates on external platforms.

HR / Workfoce

Talent sourcing

Automatically finds suitable candidates on external platforms.

Duurzaamheid

ESG benchmarking

Compares sustainability performance with external standards.

Duurzaamheid

ESG benchmarking

Compares sustainability performance with external standards.

Duurzaamheid

Regulation monitoring

Automatically keeps track of changes in laws and regulations.

Duurzaamheid

Regulation monitoring

Automatically keeps track of changes in laws and regulations.

From looking back to looking ahead.

Many organisations mainly focus on what is already visible internally: ERP data, reports and operational KPIs. But strategic advantage often comes from understanding what is changing outside the organisation as well. External Intelligence makes external developments structurally useful in your decision-making. As a result, you do not only respond when the impact becomes visible internally, but can predict, prioritise and adjust earlier.

From looking back to looking ahead.

Many organisations mainly focus on what is already visible internally: ERP data, reports and operational KPIs. But strategic advantage often comes from understanding what is changing outside the organisation as well. External Intelligence makes external developments structurally useful in your decision-making. As a result, you do not only respond when the impact becomes visible internally, but can predict, prioritise and adjust earlier.

Connected with the market leaders.

External Intelligence works best when external signals are brought directly together with the systems you already use. Link market data, regulations, pricing information and other external sources to ERP, CRM, production or reporting processes

Discover how AI and data make your business smarter, faster and more sustainable.

Discover how AI and data make your business smarter, faster and more sustainable.

Discover how AI and data make your business smarter, faster and more sustainable.