Case Study: University of California achieves system-wide spend visibility and millions in savings with JAGGAER Spend Radar

University of California’s $200 Million Secret

University of California, a 10‑campus system managing roughly $7 billion in annual spend across hundreds of thousands of suppliers and 15+ million transaction lines, launched the P200 Challenge to save $200 million annually by 2017. Fragmented, inconsistent purchasing and payment data across disparate campus systems made it impossible to see spend at the departmental or campus level, so University of California engaged JAGGAER and its Spend Radar spend analysis solution to tackle the visibility problem.

JAGGAER implemented Spend Radar to aggregate, normalize and classify PO, invoice and card data from all campuses, providing a single, refreshable source of truth and monthly insights. As a result, University of California gained system‑wide and departmental spend visibility, enabled smaller campuses to leverage system data, and tracked procurement benefits—helping the P200 program beat its $200 million goal by $69 million in FY2015‑16 and target over $300 million by FY2016‑17; for example, Spend Radar identified $300M in lab‑supply spend that yielded about $14M in annual savings. JAGGAER’s solution delivered measurable cost reductions and faster, data‑driven sourcing decisions.

University of California

Todd Wirsching

Analytics and Reporting Manager