Case Study: a multisite industrial and manufacturing organization streamlines procurement and saves 15% with Aquiire

20 Independent Energy Facilities Consolidate Procurement Processes with B2B Marketplace

A multisite industrial and manufacturing organization with 26 locations and over 65,000 employees was struggling with highly decentralized procurement. Each of its 20 facilities used a different eProcurement system—including Ariba, PeopleSoft/Oracle, and SAP—along with unique processes and supplier communities. This fragmentation created significant challenges in managing supplier data, consolidating rates, and achieving savings. The company needed a way to unify these disparate systems without replacing their existing back-end solutions and complex, facility-specific approval workflows.

The vendor Aquiire implemented its real-time eProcurement solution, which created a single, user-friendly shopping interface for all employees. The solution integrated seamlessly with each facility's existing back-end systems, allowing for intelligent search across all supplier data and side-by-side comparison shopping. For Aquiire's customer, this resulted in streamlined supplier data management, a 15% incremental savings from leveraging enterprise-wide spend, and a consolidated, consumer-like purchasing environment across all 26 facilities.