Case Study: Cox Enterprises achieves rapid procure-to-pay consolidation and higher user adoption with SAP Ariba

Cox Enterprises - Customer Case Study

Cox Enterprises, a $15 billion communications, media and automotive services company with over 50,000 employees and businesses such as Cox Communications, Manheim and AutoTrader, faced a fragmented procurement environment across six ERP systems. The decentralized, dated platform limited spend visibility, prevented consistent front-end approvals, and made it difficult to drive supplier and catalog adoption across the organization.

To address this, Cox implemented the cloud-based Ariba Procure-to-Pay solution integrated with its ERPs, completing the rollout in 14 weeks using out-of-the-box functionality. The new platform improved supplier collaboration via the Ariba Network, drove rapid user adoption (300+ new users within months), enabled 12 PunchOut catalogs, delivered more consistent POs and payments, and provided scalable, continuously updated functionality to increase visibility and compliance.

Cox Enterprises

Brooke Krenn

Senior Manager, Procurement Systems