# How Snowflake uses Fairmarkit

**6.4 days**: “Cycle times dropped dramatically, from 25 days to 6.4 days.”

As published on [fairmarkit.com](https://www.fairmarkit.com/case-studies/snowflake). Captured by usedby on 2026-10-07.

- Company: [Snowflake](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/snowflake.md)
- Tool: [Fairmarkit](https://www.usedby.ai/tools/fairmarkit.md)
- Industry: [Data & Analytics](https://www.usedby.ai/companies/industry/data-analytics.md)
- Teams: Procurement, Strategic Sourcing

## What the story says

Snowflake's procurement team uses Fairmarkit to automate repetitive sourcing tasks, centralize supplier communications, and run sourcing events with features such as auto-send, auto-award, intake and a scope of work generator. This shifts buyers from tactical work to more strategic activities.

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

> Record-Low Cycle Times: Cycle times dropped dramatically, from 25 days to 6.4 days.

- **31.8%**: “Autonomous Sourcing: 31.8% of sourcing events now run autonomously through Fairmarkit, up nearly 15x from the previous year.”
- **5%**: “Elevated Savings: Improved awarded savings by an additional 5%.”

> If we're talking about 10 total steps to go through this process, like how do we make that five steps, right? Fairmarkit, the great end user experience…it's really enabling us to provide that extra value and tell the great story of how we can get that Amazon-like experience
>
> Conor Murchison, Director of Strategic Sourcing

## What usedby checked

We compared the story with its live page on 2026-10-07.

- Checked: the figure 6.4 days is printed word for word on the page, near the name of Snowflake.
- Checked: the passage quoted above is copied word for word from the page, near the name of Snowflake.
- Checked: Snowflake uses Fairmarkit. Confirmed line. Latest check across sources: 2026-10-07.
- Not checked: the result itself. We quote it; we did not measure it.

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