A practical guide to cost intelligence for volatile markets

Procurement leaders are under more pressure than ever — from executives demanding cost justification, from suppliers pushing through price increases, and from a volatile market where tariffs, labor shifts, and input cost swings can change overnight. The expectation is clear: procurement should protect margins, manage risk, and advise the business with confidence.

Most teams are still working with two imperfect tools. Spend analytics show where money went. Commodity indexes show what's happening in the market. But neither explains why the cost of the specific products you buy is changing — and neither gives you the data to push back on a supplier, protect a margin commitment, or brief your CFO with confidence.

That gap is where procurement shifts from reactive to strategic.

Cost intelligence closes it. By modeling the actual cost drivers behind the products you buy — materials, labor, energy, manufacturing inputs, tariffs — procurement teams can understand in real time what a product should cost, why a price changed, and whether a supplier increase is justified or inflated. That's not a report. That's a defensible position

In this webinar, Daniela Osio, CEO and Co-Founder of Dalinea, will show how leading procurement organizations are using cost intelligence to:

• Protect margins — identify where you're overpaying before a contract renewal, not after.
• Manage risk — understand your exposure to raw material volatility, tariff shifts, and single-source dependencies before they become P&L problems.
• Lead supplier negotiations — challenge price increase requests with cost-level data instead of market benchma.
• Advise finance with confidence — bring a forward-looking cost view to the business, not just historical spend summaries.
• Move procurement from a cost center to a strategic function — with the data to anticipate cost changes, not just explain them

Attendees will walk away with a framework for understanding where cost intelligence fits in their current stack, what it unlocks that spend analytics and benchmarks cannot, and how to use industry-level cost insights to become the most informed voice in the room when supply chain decisions are being made.

Learning Objectives:

How to use product-level cost modeling to challenge supplier narratives and protect negotiating power

Lead supplier negotiations — challenge price increase requests with cost-level data instead of market benchma.

What "proactive cost management" looks like in practice — real examples from procurement teams managing direct materials volatility

How to use cost intelligence to brief finance and the C-suite with credibility

How industry cost insights can transform procurement into a strategic advisory function

Presented by:

Daniela Osio, CEO and Co-Foundr of Dalinea

Daniela Osio is the Co-Founder and CEO of Dalinea (formerly known as Kloopify), a cost intelligence solution for procurement teams. She is passionate about solving meaningful problems, driving innovation, and technology. Formerly at DuPont, Daniela was the Global Risk Management Leader, led 4 categories through the DOW and DuPont merger, and led the employee resource group 'The Latin Network'. In 2021 she won the Young Transform Award by the Future Insight Network and in 2019 was named a 30 under 30 Supply Chain Star by ISM.