Bravida and Ivalua: Scaling Sustainable Procurement across the Nordics

Industry:

Construction & Real Estate

Headquarters:

Stockholm, Sweden

Employees:

14,000

Website:

www.bravida.se

About Bravida

Established in 1922, Bravida is a premier technical installation and services company operating extensively across the Nordic countries. Providing comprehensive solutions in infrastructure and real estate, the group manages half of its total operational costs through procurement, making the function a critical pillar of its business model.

Challenges

Extreme Organizational Decentralization: Operating with almost 350 different companies, each carrying individual P&L responsibilities, leading to highly localized and fragmented procurement practices.
Operational Complexity at Scale: Managing approximately 1,000 project managers executing daily procurement activities across a centralized and locally organized structure with a small corporate team.
Rapid Growth: Bravida integrated approximately 20 local acquisitions each year, requiring a highly scalable procurement platform that could support continued growth without creating operational bottlenecks.
Evolving Compliance and Sustainability Mandates:Core systems needed to be modernized to comply with upcoming EU regulations and meet increasingly stringent sustainability requirements.
Lack of Centralized Governance: Absence of dedicated contract management and supplier management systems prior to the digital transformation initiative.

Benefits

High Spend & Material Scale Managed via Ivalua: Centralized management over procurement, which accounts for 50% of total operational business costs—where direct materials make up one-third of overall spend, and 50% of direct material consists of standardized catalog items.
Enterprise-wide Scalability: Implemented a flexible, future-proof platform capable of seamlessly absorbing over 20 annual local acquisitions while maintaining corporate governance.
Strategic ERP Optimization: Facilitated a corporate shift toward a leaner, smaller core ERP footprint by extending specialized functional capabilities directly to Ivalua’s procurement and services modules.
Enhanced Local and Central Control: Provided 1,000 project managers and central procurement teams with complete visibility into data, processes, and supplier contracts.

Solutions Selected

Supplier Risk & Performance

Sourcing

Contract Management

eProcurement

Intake Management

Invoicing

IVA

Payments

Spend Analysis

With over 14,000 employees and €3 billion in revenue, procurement is at the core of everything we do. Half of our total costs run through procurement.