Case Study: CareFusion achieves global spend visibility and cost savings with Bristlecone SaaS Spend Management

CareFusion - Customer Case Study

CareFusion, a global medical devices company, needed a new enterprise-wide spend management platform after spinning off from Cardinal Health. The company wanted to replace its prior spend analytics tools and unify fragmented data sources to improve spend visibility, reduce costs, and better manage supplier risk. Bristlecone provided the solution using SAP SPM 2.1 and a SaaS-based model.

Bristlecone integrated spend data from five systems into a single global platform and deployed its proprietary Data Extractor Kit, File Validation Tool, Auto Upload Process, and Supplier Diversity Solution. The implementation gave CareFusion visibility into $1.7 billion in annual spend, improved data reliability, sped deployment, and helped reduce supplier base and costs while strengthening supplier collaboration and negotiation.

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