Case Study: Sky plc achieves streamlined procurement and enhanced supplier collaboration with SAP Ariba

Stryker Streamlines Procurement by Increasing Supplier Collaboration

Stryker Corporation, a global medical‑technology leader, faced fragmented procurement processes that relied on multiple manual tools and disconnected systems, producing inconsistent physical and financial data and poor visibility into finished‑goods inventory. That fragmentation slowed decision‑making, reduced accuracy and efficiency, and made supplier collaboration difficult.

To fix this, Stryker consolidated supplier collaboration on SAP Ariba, SAP Business Network and SAP Integrated Business Planning—integrated with SAP S/4HANA—with TCS as lead integrator, allowing forecasts, purchase orders, ASNs and invoices to be managed on a single platform. The change delivered real‑time visibility into physical and financial flows, 100% supplier adoption of the collaboration process, streamlined operations, faster processing and payment times, higher productivity and reduced IT complexity.

Sky plc