Case Study: Air France-KLM achieves procurement transparency and cost savings with SAP Ariba

Air France KLM Helping a Strategic Sourcing Initiative Take Flight with SAP Ariba Solutions

Air France-KLM, a global airline group with ~95,000 employees and €25 billion in revenue, needed to simplify and standardize strategic sourcing across its operations to improve efficiency, increase category coverage, speed supplier onboarding, and gain transparency into contracts and supplier performance.

The company deployed SAP Ariba solutions — Ariba Sourcing, Ariba Contract Management, and Ariba Supplier Information and Performance Management — consolidating processes for 3,000 suppliers and 7,500 contracts covering €6 billion in annual spend. The initiative increased visibility and productivity, reduced contract management costs and cycle times, enabled 300 sourcing events per year, and improved supplier onboarding and performance tracking.

Air France KLM

Dolf Mesland

Manager Procurement Processes & Systems