PSA Peugeot Citroën Chooses Ivalua Buyer
Mountain View, CA - Dec. 20, 2010 – . PSA Peugeot Citroën has selected Ivalua Buyer to implement its new global Supplier Management Repository. The decision provides the company with a single, centralized application that ensures easy access to supplier information across all its purchasing departments, worldwide.
For the global automobile manufacturing giant and industry leader, with operations in 160 countries, the primary goal of the deployment was to replace its homegrown application with a flexible solution that meets the needs of the procurement organization for a single, user-friendly, multilingual and upgradable system available to buyers in all regions of the world. “Ivalua Buyer won us over with its ergonomic design, its simplicity, and its complete range of features,” explains Bruno Rigaudy, Director of Procurement Information Systems for PSA Peugeot Citroën. “It has also allowed us to meet our objectives in terms of greatly reducing maintenance costs.”
This large-scale project, initiated in March 2010, is considered today a broad success by PSA Peugeot Citroën with 2,000 regular users and 73,000 suppliers managed in the system.
In practice, the integration of Ivalua Buyer with PSA Peugeot Citroën’s B2B extranet portal (http://b2b.psa-peugeot-citroen.com/) provides secure access to all business partners, and allows for interactive and personalized management of the full array of PSA’s vendors. Suppliers can, in turn, quickly follow-up, add information, update their profile in detail, and access various applications through the B2B portal.
“This new application was adopted very quickly by all our users,” reports Thierry Perrotto, Contracting and Procedures Manager for the Procurement Department. “With the old system, it took 11 days to reference a new supplier. Now, with Ivalua Buyer’s Supplier Management Repository, it only takes 3 days. It’s a real time-saver!”
After several months of use, results exceed expectations and show a high level of adoption among users and suppliers. Feedback solicited from internal users and suppliers confirm that the application has cut down paperwork and updates to the database are being made in real-time by suppliers themselves. In addition, Ivalua Buyer’s interfacing with PSA Peugeot Citroën’s multiple SAP ERP instances ensures a complete integration into the company’s procurement information systems. It allows for interactive and fully automated data synchronization. It is a step-function improvement of the overall supplier management performance.
“Thanks to the close collaboration between our two teams, we were able to install an application that meets the specific standardization needs of the Supplier Management Repository at automotive industry giant PSA,” says Daniel Amzallag, VP of Product Marketing and Strategic Alliances. “We are very proud to count PSA as one of our many global clients that have successfully deployed ambitious international projects, combining supplier database expertise and complex ERP systems integration.”