Case Study: Progress Rail achieves 30% reduction in planners' daily workload and real-time PO collaboration with SourceDay

Progress Rail - Customer Case Study

Progress Rail, a Caterpillar company with 100+ US facilities and multiple ERPs (SAP, Infor), struggled with decentralized, manual PO management—buyers and planners relied on email and weekly spreadsheet snapshots, spent up to 40% of the day on clerical tasks, and lacked order acknowledgments and visibility to PO changes. To solve this, Progress Rail selected SourceDay’s PO collaboration solution to bring suppliers, buyers and planners into a single, real-time view.

SourceDay implemented a single collaborative platform (including its Radar feature) that went live in weeks, achieved over 90% supplier adoption, and enabled procurement to manage by exception. The result: planners’ daily workloads dropped by about 30% (approximately three hours), communications that once took a full day now take 15 minutes or less, data accuracy and supplier performance improved, and SourceDay’s automation freed the team to focus on strategic work.

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