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Supplier categorization is considered as a business approach to reduce the logistic costs and improve business performance. In this work we propose a data clustering algorithm for supplier categorization namely S-Canopy clustering. It is simply making use of canopy clustering to reduce the number of distance comparisons. Comparison analysis shows a feasibility to obtain better results for categorization...