# How Ace Hardware uses Levelpath

**15,600+**: “15,600+ employees actively using Levelpath for intake requests”

As published on [levelpath.com](https://www.levelpath.com/customer-story/how-ace-hardware-cut-through-the-procurement-noise-at-scale). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-08.

- Company: [Ace Hardware](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/ace-hardware.md)
- Tool: [Levelpath](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/levelpath.md)
- Industry: [Retail](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/retail-offline-omnichannel.md)
- Teams: Procurement, Legal, Supply Chain

## What the story says

Ace Hardware uses Levelpath to centralize intake requests and sourcing between facility managers at its distribution centers and the indirect procurement and legal teams. It also uses the platform's supplier enrichment and AI to analyze its supplier base and support RFPs.

Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Levelpath and Ace Hardware, not ours.

> With Levelpath's Hyperbridge reasoning engine, Ace Hardware simplified its supplier landscape by identifying 40% of secondary suppliers that were providing overlapping services.

- **16**: “16 distribution centers connected through Levelpath, providing real-time visibility for facility managers”
- **40%**: “40% of secondary suppliers identified as overlapping, enabling strategic consolidation”
- **12%**: “12% of distribution center employees engaging through mobile, with adoption continuing to climb”

> Levelpath has become a central portal for Ace as it relates to working with our distribution folks and making procurement easier for them.
>
> Fraz Baig, Director of Category Management and Operations

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-08.

- Checked: the figure 15,600+ is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Ace Hardware.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Ace Hardware.
- Checked: Ace Hardware uses Levelpath. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-08.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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Source: https://www.usedby.ai/case-studies/ace-hardware-levelpath · How we check: https://www.usedby.ai/methodology