LEADING AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURER,
PORSCHE CARS NORTH AMERICA, INC.
ADDS WHEELS TO ITS PROCUREMENT
AUTOMATION PROCESSES WITH ZYCUS SOLUTIONS
About Porsche: Existing Procurement Processes before Selecting Zycus:
MS word and exchange of email for internal business requests
Porsche AG is a leading German
automobile manufacturer specializing Microsoft Project Plan for tracking and managing of projects
in high-performance sports cars, SUVs Ariba vendor registration & SAP ERP for managing supplier information
and sedans. Porsche Cars North
Ariba eSourcing solution for managing sourcing events
America, Inc. (PCNA) was established
in 1984, as the exclusive US importer ContractLogix solution as a repository for storing contracts
of Porsche vehicles. PCNA employs
approximately 300 people who Zycus Solution Footprint:
provide parts, service, marketing, and
Contract Management
training for 186 dealers. PCNA's Local
Procurement Center provides a eSourcing
shared service to PCNA and 11 other Request Management
North American Affiliates including Project Management
Porsche Canada, Porsche Latin
Supplier Information Management
America, and Porsche Financial
Services.
Procurement Goals & Vision:
Single source of truth for consolidated procurement data
Seamless flow of information within an integrated solution suite
Easy to use solutions encouraging adoption across business users along with
procurement users
Single platform which would provide visibility into projects to Porsche's top
management
Scalable solutions to increase spend under management
Key Facts & Figures: Existing Challenges:
Contract Management
1200+ contracts stored
Lack of authoring capabilities within existing solution
80+ sourcing events conducted Lack of redline tracking within existing solution
1700+ suppliers on iSupplier
eSourcing
45+ projects managed in iManage
Time consuming & manual sourcing processes
$43Mn+ spend value of projects Lack of process compliance in sourcing events
$15Mn+ total savings Lack of stakeholder buy-in
Request Management
Inefficiency due to manual tracking of requests
Lack of automated conditional routing in approval workflows
Loss of transparency in the process
SOURCE-TO-PAY SUITE E-PROCUREMENT E-INVOICING SPEND ANALYSIS E-SOURCING CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT SAVINGS MANAGEMENT
Key Business Impact: Project Management
Lack of enterprise level visibility into ongoing projects
Increased transparency and
visibility of projects to all Inefficient reporting due to manual processes
stakeholders at Porsche
Supplier Information Management
Increased efficiency and
Cumbersome processes to onboard new suppliers
productivity in procurement
processes with automation Fragmented supplier information spread across disparate systems
Manual process leading to inefficiencies
Increased user adoption among
business and procurement users
Zycus Solutions for Porsche – Key Highlights:
Increased collaboration and
transparency between several iContract:
shared service functions across Ability to author contracts with version control
the organization Various contract types and sub-types created for procurement and legal users
Effective use of contract summary replacing manual signatory process
Integrated workflow management within iContract
iSource:
Accelerated sourcing processes with increased process compliance
Multitude of sourcing templates configured in iSource
Custom roles created for procurement users for carrying out sourcing events
iRequest:
Automated and configurable approval workflows leading to increased efficiency
Various types of request forms created & standardized for Porsche like
procurement requests, legal requests and hotel & meeting requests
Custom roles created for 190+ approvers
175 + workflow conditions created for each request form with an average of 4-5
levels of approvals per request
iManage:
Increased visibility to the top management with project creation for each
procurement request
Availability of pre-packaged and adhoc reports
Single platform to manage & track all procurement project statuses
iSupplier:
Availability of supplier self-registration option to initiate supplier registration
Availability of potential suppliers for sourcing events in iSource
Integrated IT Security review in profile management
SOURCE-TO-PAY SUITE E-PROCUREMENT E-INVOICING SPEND ANALYSIS E-SOURCING CONTRACT MANAGEMENT SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT SAVINGS MANAGEMENT
About us
Zycus is a leading global provider
of complete Source-to-Pay suite of
procurement performance AutoClass
solutions. Our comprehensive
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product portfolio includes
applications for both the
operational and the strategic iCost
aspects of procurement -
eProcurement, eInvoicing, Spend Financial Savings Spend
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and Request Management. Our
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spirit of innovation and our
passion to help procurement eProcurement
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create greater business impact are plier Network
reflected among the hundreds of
procurement solution deployments Supplier Contract
that we have undertaken over the Management Management
iContract
years. We are proud to have as our iSupplier
Authoring
clients, some of the best-of-breed
companies across verticals like iPerform iContract
Manufacturing, Automotives, Repository
Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas,
Food Processing, Electronics,
Telecommunications, Chemicals,
Health and Pharma, Education and
more.
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