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Matthew Spencer discusses how FlockScore is revolutionizing supplier performance data through a collaborative, AI-powered model.

In this episode of The Procurement Software Podcast, James Meads welcomes Matthew Spencer, procurement veteran and founder of FlockScore, a newly launched startup rethinking how supplier performance is captured and shared across industrial supply chains. Matthew brings a rare perspective as a procurement practitioner-turned-founder, having led SRM and sustainability at Bekaert Group before identifying a critical market gap: supplier scorecards were siloed, static, and lacked ecosystem-level insight. FlockScore aims to change that, offering a collaborative, AI-powered model for tracking supplier performance. Can we really crowdsource Supplier Performance Data? We unpack how FlockScore’s “open contribute-to-access” model lets procurement teams upload anonymised supplier performance data in exchange for aggregated, comparative insights. Matthew explains how AI agents enrich these insights by scanning public sources for issues like recalls, shutdowns, or delivery disruptions, without exposing contributor identity. Also discussed in this episode: Why supplier performance often takes a backseat to compliance and innovation The limits of traditional scorecards and why category-specific…

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Host: James Meads

Guest: Matthew Spencer

Topics covered

• supplier performance
• procurement
• AI in supply chains
• collaborative models
• data sharing
• sustainability

Keywords

• supplier performance data
• FlockScore
• AI
• procurement
• supply chains
• scorecards
• data sharing
• sustainability

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Organizations: FlockScore, Bekaert Group

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