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High Growth and Strategic Procurement Evolution for Regional Sports Governing Body

Transforming procurement with a forward-thinking approach and innovative solutions.

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Industry:

Sports

Headquarters:

Switzerland

Employees:

3,000

About

This sports organization collaborates with 55 athletic associations, fostering growth and development across its member networks. Dedicated to supporting youth and women’s teams, it plays a crucial role in organizing and managing competitive events that inspire athletes and strengthen communities. The Top Regional Sports Governing Body is a large, multifaceted organization that is not just a sports business, but also a service, event, and broadcasting organization with diverse operations such as hospitality and merchandise.

Challenges

Disjointed procurement activities, limited resources, and restricted supplier and spend visibility, hindering effective decision-making.
Complex operations, involving business, service, sport, event organization, broadcasting, merchandise, and large event management, creating diverse indirect procurement challenges.
Required a procurement solution that could address their unique needs while remaining agile to adapt to future challenges and evolving demands.
Market options either enforced rigid processes or offered flexibility without necessary compliance controls, neither fitting their requirements.

Benefits

Holistic Procurement Visibility: Ivalua provides a complete view of the end-to-end business process from sourcing to payment. Unlocks data transparency, streamlining workflows and enhancing decision-making..
Supports Growth and Strategic Procurement: From Procure-to-Pay to advanced strategic procurement (S2C), enabling spend analytics and supplier performance evaluations, Ivalua helped build stronger supplier relationships and negotiate better contracts.
Adaptability to Organizational Changes: As they expanded from 70 to 800 employees, Ivalua’s adaptable platform allowed for scalability. This flexibility aligned with their evolving needs, ensuring they could navigate complexities at their own pace while receiving high-level support from Ivalua.

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Solutions Selected

Supplier Risk & Performance

Sourcing

Contract Management

eProcurement

Invoicing

Payments

Spend Analysis

What we saw at the time of selection was the possibility to adapt the tool to our needs. We didn’t have a process, we built it with the Ivalua Platform. The biggest tangible benefits we see is the amount of data that we can handle to drive positive impact to the business. Our decisions are well-informed, pointed and strategic, which would not have happened without the flexibility, transparency and analytics Ivalua provides.