Steve DuBuc
Americas Leader of Sourcing & Procurement Transformation, Partner & Managing Director
Detroit
Unify fragmented spend data, generate negotiation-grade insights, and execute sourcing faster with practitioner-built workflows. Corus brings every spend signal into harmony:
One trusted spend baseline
AI-enabled category insights
Supplier network intelligence
Integrated RFx execution
Traditional sourcing can’t keep up
Procurement leaders are operating in unprecedented times, and multiple disruptions make effective analysis a persistent challenge.
- Constant volatility: Trade shifts, geopolitical events, and sudden demand swings.
- Fragmented data: No “one version” of spend, putting compliance at risk.
- Margins under pressure: Procurement is on the front line of EBITDA; you need to deliver more in cost savings, faster.
- Too manual to scale: Hours wasted cleaning data and reconciling versions—work that delays real action.
- Speed vs. confidence: Decisions are needed in hours, not weeks and you may move too fast on weak facts.
Corus from AlixPartners is an end-to-end, AI-powered source-to-contract intelligence platform. Designed by practitioners, this isn’t just another piece of software; this is our proven expertise digitized.
Key capabilities
Spend transparency and control
One trusted spend truth—fast. Corus establishes a unified baseline across fragmented direct and indirect spend sources, accelerating opportunity sizing from months to days.
Category insights
Turn data into negotiation-grade intelligence. With a baseline established, Corus translates visibility into action. It serves as an AI-enabled category advisor that unlocks a larger, more defensible savings pool, enriched by benchmarks built on decades of AlixPartners’ category experience.
Supplier network insights
Broaden your options at scale and pace, and reveal hidden dependencies. Corus uses agentic AI to compress the cycle time of supplier discovery and comprehensive evaluation. It expedites the activation of alternate suppliers, reduces concentration risk, and shifts Procurement teams to a strategic viewpoint of economics, risk, and ESG drivers.
Integrated sourcing planning and execution
From insight to award—seamlessly. Corus is sourcing as an operating system, enabling execution at speed and governance with discipline. Run more sourcing events in less time, capture trackable savings, and ensure the next budget cycle doesn't erode hard-won margin gains.
The path to rapid value
1. Establish a trusted baseline
Within the first two weeks, we connect to your disparate systems and use AI to build a unified, categorized view of your direct and indirect spend.
2. Identify sourcing opportunities
By weeks three and four, our AI-enabled advisors run should-cost models, tariff scenarios, and benchmark analyses to pinpoint top opportunities and quick wins.
3. Activate initiatives and extract value
From week five onward, you launch targeted sourcing waves, execute automated RFx, run scenario-based awards, and lock in centralized spend control to ensure your savings sustain.
Proven performance and measurable impact
Corus takes you from fragmented data to real-world impact. When structural opportunities exist, our clients establish a stronger procurement operating model and can unlock:
Faster time to value:
2–10x faster*: Days to baseline. Weeks to realized savings.
Margin improvement:
3-5x more savings than traditional methods*
Structural control:
Sustainable savings and smarter disruption response for revenue protection.
(* Speed and savings ranges depend on category maturity and market conditions)
We have already delivered:
Client result
>$100M
in annual savings & 10%+ margin improvement
Industry Retail
Challenge Post-COVID supply chain
Client result
$50M+
in COGS reduction
Industry Industrial automation
Challenge Raw material inflation
Time Frame 3 months
Client result
14%
unit cost reduction
Industry Packaging distribution
Solution AI should-pay models
Client result
50%
reduction in time and complexity
IndustryPrivate equity
Scope19 portfolio companies
