When Idex acquired a new company, it took them a month to integrate this company into the procurement system, providing the following immediate benefits:

  • Integration of new employees in the group culture (key to a merge success)
  • Use of group supplier agreements and contracts for immediate saving
  • Quick organization adaptation
  • Immediate change of financial system, allowing the new company to feed group ERP without any IT project

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Business cases

Suez Environment : Finance

By covering the complete purchase-to-pay cycle for all spending, including recurrent and strategic procurement, SITA has completely automated the process. Using a b-pack partner to scan and process more than 500,000 invoices a year that are sent to b-pack for semi-automatic reconciliation, they improved drastically on their financial operations, thus saving time and money.

 

Implementing good receiving allowed SITA, a public company part of Fortune 500 under Suez Environment, to manage on a monthly cut-off basis on their accrual, providing accurate financial statements.

GSF: Multiple ERPs

When GSF implemented b-pack, they had 7 different ERP’s to manage their business (each business unit having financial autonomy). GSF used b-pack to centralize the spending chain with common supplier database, catalogs, and organization, while bringing business dedicated customized features to ease operations. Benefits include:

  • Big saving in ERP maintenance and upgrade
  • Centralized and under control procurement provided direct cost saving
  • Going from 100% manual to 80% automatic invoice matching

IDEX: M&A

When Idex acquired a new company, it took them a month to integrate this company into the procurement system, providing the following immediate benefits:

  • Integration of new employees in the group culture (key to a merge success)
  • Use of group supplier agreements and contracts for immediate saving
  • Quick organization adaptation
  • Immediate change of financial system, allowing the new company to feed group ERP without any IT project

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AON implements b-pack purchase-to-pay solution

CASE STUDY:  AON France

With an existing investment in a corporate ERP solution, Aon* France wanted to improve on its purchasing management through automation – but not sacrifice their well-established and proven processes. After an in-depth needs assessment, the company developed a long list of requirements for a robust solution that would deliver security, reliability, centralization, and traceability. The company was focused on harnessing technology for more rigorous management of budgets, suppliers, processes, and quality control across the purchasing cycle.

With 160 users across more than five job functions and an unending calendar of projects, Aon France’s Facilities and Purchasing manager, Angelo Videira, was charged with honing in on a solution that would optimize the company’s purchasing cycle.

Selected in 2006, b-pack was a clear frontrunner to address Aon France’s needs due to its high security, robust business processor and in-depth traceability, among other benefits and features. Because b-pack is created with Web- and standards-based open technology, it was quickly deployed, flexibly personalized and can be easily evolved to address Aon France’s ongoing needs.

After an “easy” installation (the application is remotely hosted at b-pack) and a few internally-led two-hour training sessions, Aon France was ready to optimize their business operations with b-pack. Job functions tapping the power of b-pack span Aon France’s buyers, accountants, database administrators and other purchasing-related job functions.

The company has realized significant productivity and financial gains, including real-time reports access, workflow security and traceability, purchase justification and a corporate catalog that addresses 85 percent of the company’s specific purchasing needs. Based on past successes, Aon France is now entering the second phase of deployment, as the company continues to improve on its purchasing and business optimization with b-pack.

*Aon is the leading provider of risk management services, insurance and reinsurance brokerage, and human capital and management consulting.

 

Testimonial

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“In less than 2 months, b-pack was configured to manage all of our categories bringing total visibility in our spending.”
Donal Burke, United Drug CPO
«[b-pack] was selected for its ease-of-use and ease-of- deployment (due to being a Web application). The pilot was focused on administrative expense management… Out of approximately 50,000 vendor invoices, a large percentage can now be driven directly through the accounting process, which lightens the load for the accountants so they can focus on more productive tasks that add greater value. Before [b-pack], we had no budgetary control. With this tool, we can apply a pragmatic analysis and manage the budget in real-time. As a result, we can proactively manage accounting gaps rather than absorb them. »
- Bertrand Drouet, CFO for Groupe Vivadour
«Orchestrating [an in-depth needs study to select the solution most adapted to our requirements] was very de-centralized: about 15,000 people are impacted at some level in the procurement process. We needed the most agile, collaborative and adaptable solution possible… The solutions that addressed our business needs stood out in terms of functionality and value.
And b-pack… was the winner. »   - Florent Picq, e-purchasing project manager of Groupe La Poste