Case Study: Kakao Corporation cuts supplier sourcing lead time by 30% with Oracle Cloud Procurement

Kakao Cuts 30% Lead Time to Source Suppliers with Oracle ERP Cloud

Kakao Corp., a mobile platform company serving over 170 million users with chat, payment, music, e‑commerce, and more, needed to standardize and modernize procurement as its service portfolio and scale rapidly. The procurement team wanted to automate RFP, quotation, and bidding processes, improve enterprisewide visibility and collaboration, enable secure mobile access to procurement data, and allow suppliers to connect without ActiveX requirements.

Kakao implemented Oracle Cloud Procurement/ERP—principally Oracle Sourcing Cloud—with implementation support from SE Partners. The new system cut supplier sourcing lead time by up to 30%, expanded and improved the supplier pool via electronic bidding and multi‑channel sourcing, increased employee productivity and transparency through mobile access and BI tools, simplified supplier onboarding without ActiveX, and strengthened data security.

Kakao Corporation

Jackie Sung

Part Manager, Purchase Part Department