Imerys
Imerys Streamlines Procurement Across 40 Countries with Ivalua
About
Imerys is a French multinational company that specializes in the production and processing of industrial minerals.
Headquarters:
Paris, France
Employees:
14,000
Challenges
Business Background: Imerys has grown through several acquisitions resulting in siloed, disconnected tools.
- Difficulties in consolidating all contracts from all legal entities into a single, centralized location
- No consolidated view of spend and contracts at Procurement level
- Inefficiencies in contract management
- Lack of spend compliance across the organization
Benefits
- Supplier Database: A comprehensive, one-stop shop master database for suppliers across 40 countries.
- Quicker opportunity identification: Imerys captured 20 RFx and €2.2B in Spend in one year.
- End-to-End Supplier Onboarding: Includes multiple third-party integrations for compliance and data enrichment.
- One-Off Agreement Management: Implementation of specific processes to manage unique agreements, while maintaining rigid confidentiality restrictions.
- Central Catalog Management: Integration of direct materials and products from DHL and Lyreco via punchout.
- Global Spend Reporting: Utilizes Ivalua for consolidated purchasing requisition information (requisition, receipt, invoice) from various ERPs (Prism, Quimeo).
The Value of a Complete, Unified Source-to-Pay Platform
Greater adoption and automation
360 degree spend and supplier visibility
