Case Study: Jotun Group achieves unified global spend management and first-year ROI with Emburse

Jotun selected Emburse to centralize global spend management

Jotun Group, a global paints and coatings manufacturer with about 10,000 employees, processed roughly 80,000 expense reports a year but was operating 13 disconnected spend systems and many manual Excel/Word workflows. This fragmentation left managers with limited visibility, increased fraud and compliance risk, and created a poor, time-consuming user experience—so Jotun Group selected Emburse (deploying Emburse Chrome River and Emburse Analytics Pro) to centralize and modernize global expense management.

Emburse delivered a phased, hands-on implementation that standardized expense processes, enforced policy with built-in rules, enabled mobile reporting and automated approvals, and provided country-level dashboards via Emburse Analytics Pro. The result: 75% of the company rolled out in four months, ROI achieved within the first year, faster reimbursement of ~80K reports annually, improved visibility and controls, elimination of duplicate and out-of-policy expenses, and a more secure, auditable global expense process.

Jotun Group

Hamish Waddell

Global Finance Process Manager