Case Study: M-Industry achieves procurement modernization and spend transparency with SAP Ariba

Modernizing Procurement to Bring Innovative Products to Customers

M-Industry, a group of 23 Swiss companies that produce food, personal care and home‑care products for the Migros retail brand, faced fragmented procurement across 12 ERP and non‑ERP systems. The lack of unified source‑to‑contract and procure‑to‑pay visibility made it hard to enforce compliance, control maverick spend, and respond flexibly to changing customer needs.

M‑Industry consolidated its landscape onto SAP S/4HANA and deployed the SAP Ariba portfolio (including Spend Analysis, Sourcing, Contracts, Supplier Lifecycle, guided Buying, and Commerce Automation), harmonized master data, and moved procurement to the cloud. The transformation delivered greater spend transparency and supplier collaboration, stronger compliance and process automation, lower maintenance and support costs, and measurable savings (including a 20% e‑auction saving on packaging in a proof‑of‑concept).

M-Industry

Marco Illgen

Product Owner Procurement