Case Study: Körber AG achieves global supplier data harmonization and streamlined procurement with Ivalua

Global data harmonization and digitization across Direct and indirect spend

Körber, an international technology group with about 10,000 employees across more than 100 locations and five business areas (Digital, Pharma, Supply Chain, Tissue, Tobacco), faced a fragmented procurement landscape: heterogeneous IT and multiple ERP systems, growing procurement objectives, weak supplier collaboration, and a broad set of stakeholders needing buy-in. The company sought to ensure traceability, simplify its IT footprint, optimize spend, boost automation, and improve four key processes (plan to strategy, supplier lifecycle, source to contract, requisition to pay).

Körber selected Ivalua’s central, flexible source-to-pay platform — including Supplier Management, Sourcing, Contract Management, Procurement, Invoicing and Strategy & Analytics — to provide a single, unified data model and end-to-end collaboration for direct and indirect spend. The implementation harmonized supplier data into a single point of truth, improved supplier collaboration and contract transparency (raising compliance), reduced maverick spend, increased efficiency through automation, and achieved broad, rapid user adoption.

Körber AG

Michael Stietz

Senior Vice President & Chief Procurement Officer