Case Study: Novozymes achieves 93% faster contract completion and streamlined onboarding with Adobe Acrobat Sign

Novozymes speeds business growth and on-boards critical talent faster using Adobe Sign

Novozymes, the world’s largest enzyme producer based in Denmark, faced growing administrative and logistical strain from thousands of paper-based contracts across sales, legal, HR and procurement. Rising postage and printing costs, multi-country signature requirements, and slow onboarding processes made contract completion lengthy and error-prone, while cultural preference for wet-ink signatures slowed digital adoption.

By deploying Adobe Sign as part of a digital document workflow, Novozymes streamlined legal and HR processes—handling about 300 legal contracts and 1,000 employment agreements annually—and completed 1,400 workflows since rollout. The solution cut contract completion time by more than 93% (to an average of two days, with some done in minutes), improved compliance and tracking, reduced administrative workload and paper costs, and accelerated hiring of critical talent.

Novozymes

Claus Michael Andersen

Senior Manager, Legal Department