Case Study: Boliden Group achieves consolidated visibility of €2B spend and supplier optimization with SAP Ariba Spend Visibility

Boliden Group Delivering Comprehensive Insights on Supplier and Spend Data with Ariba Spend Visibility

Boliden Group is a global mining and metals company operating across multiple sites in Sweden, Finland, Norway and Ireland. Facing fragmented spend and supplier data from disparate systems, Boliden lacked a consolidated view to drive strategic sourcing, benchmarking and procurement improvements across its seven procurement sites.

Boliden implemented SAP Ariba Spend Visibility to aggregate, classify and enrich spend data, applying custom and industry taxonomies and a unified supplier database. The program analyzed €2 billion in spend (340,000 transactions) and enriched 6,000 supplier records, uncovering spend-reduction opportunities, supplier parentage hierarchies to improve negotiation leverage, and higher-quality analytics covering €800 million annually—delivering a company-wide baseline for performance improvement and faster user adoption.

Boliden Group

Simon Miller

Sourcing Project Manager