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<div><a href="http://valdera.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Valdera</a> has been featured in the <a href="https://procurementmag.com/magazine/procurement-magazine-june-2026?page=68">June edition</a> of Supply Chain Digital.</div>
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<p>In this exclusive interview, Sruti Arulmani, CEO and Co-Founder of Valdera, shares insights into how the company is helping procurement teams gain new levels of visibility.</p>
<p>Sruti had seen how manufacturers were sourcing chemicals through manual processes, outdated supplier databases, and word of mouth. By 2020, the industry had digitized nearly every other function, but procurement of the actual inputs that make products was still stuck in a previous era.</p>
<p>&#8220;Every product that people interact with on a daily basis is made of chemicals and raw materials, but the industry has a massive gap when it comes to actually sourcing them intelligently,&#8221; Sruti explains. &#8220;After COVID emptied shelves and geopolitical disruptions kept compounding, it became clear that the old ways of working just were not going to cut it anymore.&#8221;</p>
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<p>Check out the full video <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mahPf3pXL4E" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here</a>.</p>
<p>The pandemic had exposed just how fragile single-threaded supply chains really were. Manufacturers who had relied on the same handful of suppliers for years suddenly found themselves scrambling, with no systematic way to identify, qualify, or engage alternatives at speed. Sruti and her brother Dheev saw the opportunity to tackle this problem through modern data science and AI.</p>
<p>Valdera now works to bring together category management, market intelligence and a sourcing platform, all to help manufacturers transform their supply chain.</p>
<p>You can read the report in the latest issue of Supply Chain Digital by clicking <a href="https://supplychaindigital.com/magazine/supply-chain-digital-june-2026?page=146">here</a>.</p>
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<p><b>About Supply Chain Digital</b></p>
<p>Supply Chain Digital Magazine connects the leading supply chain and logistics executives of the world&#8217;s largest brands. It serves as a digital hub for connecting industry leaders, covering a wide range of services including media and advertising, events, research reports, demand generation, information, and data services.</p>
<p><b>About BizClik</b></p>
<p>BizClik is a UK-based media company with a global portfolio of leading industry, business and lifestyle digital communities. BizClik’s portfolio includes Technology, AI, FinTech, InsurTech, Manufacturing, Supply Chain, Procurement, Energy, Mobile, Data Centre and EV.</p>
<p>For further information, please visit <a href="https://www.bizclikmedia.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">bizclikmedia.com</a>.</p>
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<p><b>About Valdera</b></p>
<p>Valdera is the only AI-powered procurement technology built for chemicals and raw materials, used by category and sourcing leaders across pharmaceutical, personal care, CPG, and manufacturing. The platform unifies supplier discovery, market intelligence, and category management in one system — automating sourcing and qualification, exposing pricing and supply risk in real time, and giving teams a decisive edge on cost, speed, and resilience. Valdera is redefining how the world&#8217;s most demanding industries source the molecules they depend on.</p>


Procurement Magazine x Valdera: Bringing Chemical Procurement Into an AI-Driven Era

With a large global supplier portfolio, Valdera gives procurement teams the visibility and speed they have never had in chemical and raw material sourcing