Hulu Uses Suplari to Pull Quick Reports for Stakeholders
"Suplari saves us hundreds of hours in reporting tasks. With just a few clicks, we can walk into meetings with our CFO prepared with accurate data on-demand"
Drew Lowe, Head of Strategic Sourcing
GIA Makes Smarter Investments in IT Because of Suplari
THE CHALLENGE:
GIA is a complex global organization operating out of 13 countries. With an ERP system implemented for finance, their procurement team found it difficult to assess and manipulate data.
Managing spend and risk was challenging, while trying to offer value across other departments.
THE SOLUTION:
Suplari connected, cleansed, and unified GIA’s spend data across legacy systems including Workday and Concur.
Spend, contract, and purchasing insights made it easier to understand varying spend types, P-card spend, and PO compliance violations.
Real-time access to reporting and visibility into spend inefficiencies and opportunities.
THE RESULT:
No more manual reporting = increased productivity
Stronger partnerships with IT and other departments
Identified high risk and high growth suppliers
Improved collaboration with key suppliers
Custom insights empowered audit compliance team to increase number & frequency of reviews.
Leader in Wireless Home Audio Drives Visibility & Cost Savings in Advance of IPO
THE CHALLENGE:
While preparing for a 2018 IPO, Sonos was challenged by larger competitors, Amazon and Google, in the smart speaker market.
A large international footprint, disparate data, limited analytics, and complex procurement systems savings and business initiatives a challenge to support.
THE SOLUTION:
Suplari connected Sonos’ spend data across multiple legacy systems using Machine Learning technology.
In less than 30 days, Sonos had access to intuitive reporting and analysis across AP, P-card, T&E, and contract spend within Microsoft Dynamics and Apptus.
Integration and normalization of AP data surfaced real-time insights into spend under management, days payable outstanding, and on-time renewals.
THE RESULT:
Immediate access and visibility drives efficiency, easy access to data, and deeper partnerships across sourcing, procurement, AP, FP&A, and purchasing teams.
Drove savings by renegotiating contracts with shipping and freight suppliers.
Reduced YoY marketing spend by 20%, travel by 20%, and IT spend 15%.
Hulu Uses Suplari to Drive Sourcing & Reforecasting Process
THE CHALLENGE:
High spend on cloud, IT, content & Marketing, with rapidly changing spend and budget.
Procurement team needed to drive sourcing & category strategy to better manage suppliers and drive predictability of spend.
THE SOLUTION:
Suplari connected Hulu’s spend data across legacy systems including and Workday Financials.
Achieved improved sourcing and category strategy with custom categorization, enabling more spend under management
Strong partnership on implementation, onboarding and collaboration with the executive team.
THE RESULT:
Data visibility and insights driving better sourcing, strategy, and planning
Eliminated hundreds of hours manual reporting, increasing productivity and efficiency
Procurement & budget holders empowered to make better and faster decisions with spend visibility and insights
CDK Global Gets More Expert Eyes on Supplier Data With Suplari
THE CHALLENGE:
CDK Global implemented a multi-year spend reduction initiative to innovate & invest in new cloud-based software.
CFO tasked Procurement to drive near term spend reduction due to high spend on IT, Professional Services, Contingent Labor.
Align spend & forecasting process.
THE SOLUTION:
Sitting on top of Zycus data, Suplari was able to unify CDK Global’s spend and contract data in less than three weeks.
Customized insights enabled better focus on IT categories/sub-categories.
Suplari Tags enabled supplier accountability by executive team member.
Procurement team can strategically partner with business leaders to manage spend.
THE RESULT:
No training required; team using Suplari on day one for spend analytics across finance
Insights driving improved sourcing, strategy, and planning
No more manual reporting = increased productivity
CDK Global leaders empowered to make faster decisions to manage spend & budget
National Retailer Leverages Suplari to Compete In a Challenging Retail Environment, Unlocks Tail Spend to Invest Online
THE CHALLENGE:
With a shifting retail market and Amazon disruption, Nordstrom shifts their focus with a $4 billion dollar multi-channel strategy to stay competitive.
Driving savings, strategic spend, and spend reduction is core to their strategy.
With an outdated procurement system and disparate data, Nordstrom’s procurement team spent 80% of their time working on reports instead of savings initiatives.
THE SOLUTION:
Suplari connected Nordstrom’s spend data across multiple legacy systems using Machine Learning to drive efficiency in data cleansing and normalization.
In less than 30 days, Nordstrom had accurate visibility across their spend and suppliers, enabling them to quickly identify savings opportunities across all categories.
The Nordstrom procurement team is now a strategic partner on critical budgeting and spend reduction initiatives.
THE RESULT:
60x increase in employee productivity with automated data integration, analysis, and proactive insights
