Session

Sponsored by: Confluent | How Grainger Powers Real-time Supplier Compliance with Confluent and Databricks

Overview

ExperienceIn Person
TrackData Engineering & Streaming
IndustryEnterprise Technology, Manufacturing
TechnologiesDelta Sharing, Unity Catalog
Skill LevelBeginner

Modern procurement demands more than periodic reviews — it requires a continuous, intelligent pulse on every supplier relationship. In this session, Grainger shares how they moved from batch pipelines and manual scorecarding to a real-time supplier compliance platform built on Confluent and Databricks. You'll learn how Confluent's Tableflow seamlessly bridges streaming Kafka data into Delta tables within Databricks Unity Catalog — eliminating brittle ETL, unifying schemas, and giving Procurement teams the live insights they need to make faster, more confident decisions about their supplier portfolio.

Session Speakers

Paul Cappelluzzo

/Principal Data Architect
W.W. Grainger, Inc.

PRADEEP NAGISETTY

/Sr Manager Product&Platform Engineering
Grainger