Case Study: Los Alamos National Laboratory achieves faster, automated procurement and external workforce management with SAP Ariba

Los Alamos National Laboratory Scales Procurement and External Workforce Management

Los Alamos National Laboratory, a defense and security organization in New Mexico, was experiencing rapid growth in purchasing spend and a projected 250% increase in contingent labor. To keep pace, it needed to replace slow, paper-based procurement and workforce processes with a more integrated, compliant digital approach, and turned to SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass.

SAP Ariba and SAP Fieldglass were implemented to automate source-to-pay and external workforce management workflows, with support from SAP Services and Support. The result was major efficiency gains: commercial transactions under US$250,000 now take 8 hours instead of 30 days, workflows are moving 18x faster, and LANL has improved visibility, supplier transparency, and compliance while scaling operations more effectively.

Los Alamos National Laboratory

Christine Hipp

Head of Procurement Center of Excellence