Case Study: TransAlta achieves faster contract approvals, improved transparency and cost savings with Ivalua

Digitally transforming Source-to-contract to drive Transparency, productivity & savings

TransAlta, a century-old power generator with roughly $3 billion in annual revenue and operations in Canada, the U.S. and Australia, needed to modernize its Source-to-Contract (S2C) process. Facing a greenfield implementation with limited digitization experience, heavy manual work, multiple SAP instances and seven DocuSign interfaces to integrate, and a full supplier migration to manage, the company sought greater transparency, faster sourcing cycles, consolidated data and higher user satisfaction.

TransAlta implemented Ivalua’s full-suite procurement platform (Supplier Management, Sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement, Invoicing and Strategy & Analytics) to standardize S2C across all spend types. The transformation delivered a single, auditable S2C experience, accelerated approvals from days to hours, enabled 100% active users, made 3,600+ suppliers available for sourcing and contracts, supported 70+ sourcing events per month and digitized up to 250 contracts—improving visibility, compliance, collaboration and cost outcomes.

TransAlta

Timothy Morrison

Manager Supply Chain