Case Study: CB Richard Ellis (CBRE) achieves centralized spend control and streamlined procurement with Proactis

CB Richard Ellis Delivers Increased Value with PROACTIS

CB Richard Ellis, the world’s largest commercial real estate services firm (managing 5,000+ properties, $35B+ assets and roughly $370M annual procurement spend), needed to control expenditure across hundreds of sites, manage 8,000+ suppliers and streamline processing of some 150,000 invoices a year. To address this, CB Richard Ellis engaged Proactis for a hosted, organization‑wide purchase-to-pay/spend-management and invoice-processing solution.

Proactis delivered an end-to-end, hosted P2P solution integrated with 15 financial systems and fully deployed across all properties in nine months. The system is used by 500+ employees, established consistent P2P processes, improved site-level budget control, supported considerable transaction-volume growth with the same headcount, and moved up to 50% of invoices to electronic processing—giving CB Richard Ellis stronger AP control and full visibility of planned and actual spend.

CB Richard Ellis

Matthew Burnham

Chief Operating Officer, Property and Asset Management