Case Study: Alcoa streamlines global eProcurement and boosts supplier adoption with Aquiire

Leveraging Suppliers Punchout Interfaces and Catalog Database without Incremental Software Development

Alcoa, a global manufacturer with over 61,000 employees, faced significant challenges with its eProcurement system. After migrating to Oracle iProcurement, the company struggled with supplier catalog management, rogue spending, low user adoption, and unifying purchasing across its international operations. To address these issues, they turned to the vendor Aquiire for a solution.

Aquiire implemented its real-time eProcurement system, creating the "Alcoa Mall" portal within just three months without any incremental software development. The solution leveraged Alcoa's existing supplier interfaces and catalog database. The results included a major reduction in resources needed for catalog management, significantly expanded user adoption, and increased savings from directing spend to preferred suppliers.

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