Dräxlmaier and Ivalua: Driving Digital Transformation and Procurement

Industry:

Automotive

Headquarters:

Vilsbiburg, Germany

Employees:

60,000

Website:

www.draexlmaier.com

About Dräxlmaier Group

Dräxlmaier Group is a privately owned, family-managed global automotive supplier now operating in its third generation. With a global procurement team of around 400 employees, the company manages a total spend of approximately €3 billion. Dräxlmaier develops and manufactures complex automotive systems, requiring robust transparency and flexibility across its global supply chain.

Challenges

System Fragmentation and Breaks: The organization previously operated numerous standalone in-house systems, causing severe operational breaks across the procurement process.
Manual Excel Workarounds: Teams had to rely heavily on manual data downloads, offline processing in Excel, and subsequent uploads, increasing the likelihood of human error.
Lack of Supply Chain Transparency: Managing over 10,000 global suppliers across complex automotive systems required a single digital base to provide full transparency of vendor data and KPIs.
Data Inconsistencies: Fragmented datasets necessitated a major enterprise-wide data cleansing effort prior to migrating and going live on a unified platform.

Benefits

Single Source of Truth: Transitioned to a unified digital platform that provides a single base for all procurement data, eliminating system breaks and manual workarounds.
Centralizing €3B in Global Spend: Dräxlmaier Group eliminated fragmented legacy systems and manual Excel workarounds across 11 global offices, with the procurement team managing a €3 billion global spend (€2B direct, €1B indirect material).
Global Supplier Visibility: Centralized KPIs, delivery quality metrics, and sustainability tracking for over 10,000 suppliers in one unified platform.
AI-First Innovation Roadmap: Empowered employees to leverage agentic AI, including Eco-bot for tail spend management and upcoming AI agent capabilities through IVA Studio.
Sticky Future-Proof Strategy: Established a clear roadmap for digital advancement, with Lifecycle Supply Management live, Source-to-Contract launch in phase two, and Procure-to-Pay scheduled for future deployment.

Solutions Selected

Supplier Risk & Performance

Sourcing

Contract Management

eProcurement

Intake Management

Invoicing

IVA

Payments

Spend Analysis

Ivalua’s innovation roadmap for the next few years was one of the main reasons why we decided on Ivalua. You really deal with AI with all the needs that your customers have, and it’s a very flexible system.