The business
Before using Corcentric, Andra, a French national radioactive waste management agency, was using paper for its purchasing process. The agency was looking for a purchase-to-pay solution to reduce their costs and implement a sustainable development policy by getting rid of the paper trail. Other main goals included:
- Improve visibility
- Drive better purchasing monitoring
- Speed up the approval process
“We wanted to give our managers complete visibility and ensure the chosen solution wouldn’t only be a black box,” said Aurélien LARRAT, Purchasing Performance Project Manager. “We were looking for an easy to use solution which could evolve to be as close as possible to our existing processes, a tool that allows everyone to monitor their purchasing request approval process”.
To guarantee the success of this project, the organization conducted an RFI and compared over 30 solutions to find the one which would best meet the requirements of the executives. “One of the main benefits of Corcentric is its e-commerce-like ease of use. Corcentric allows us to standardize our approval rules using dynamic workflows due to its flexibility,” said LARRAT.
The experience
Following the RFI, Andra chose Corcentric for its ease of use, simple configuration, and ability to adapt to their business needs. In order to ensure the success of the initiative, about 30 experts and future users have been working together during the implementation.
By doing so, Corcentric has been able to improve the monitoring of the agency’s purchasing activities while reducing the average approval process time. Implementing Corcentric’s Procurement solution enabled rapid onboarding for over 500 users and delivered a quick return on investment. The application includes features such as eProcurement, approval workflow automation, and supplier management. The tool manages more than 3,500 purchase orders and 10K+ invoices a year.
Corcentric has allowed Andra to manage all their purchasing categories, catalogs, and spend in one centralized platform, including services which represents most of their spending. “Andra wanted to give complete spend visibility to the approvers,” said LARRAT.
The future
Corcentric has been able to efficiently manage the organization’s expectation by streamlining their purchasing activities while improving their monitoring capabilities. Andra can now manage all purchasing requests and purchase orders within Corcentric. By doing so, the agency has improve its visibility from requests all the way to invoicing, reduced the average approval processing time, and lowered indirect costs.
“One of the main benefits of Corcentric is its e-commerce like ease of use. Corcentric allows us to standardize our approval rules using dynamic workflows due to its flexibility.”
– Aurélien LARRAT, Purchasing Performance Project Manager
In addition to the current features in place, Andra wants to integrate the supplier score carding capacity to their existing Corcentric environment. This feature will allow them to better manage their suppliers’ performance while minimizing risks. “Corcentric gives us the flexibility to configure fields based on how we actually work,” said LARRAT.
Next steps include integrating the Corcentric solution with their SAP application along with implementing Corcentric’s sourcing feature.
Spotlight
Customer
Solutions Deployed
- Procurement
About the company
Andra is an industrial and commercial organization that leverages solutions to manage French radioactive waste, in order to preserve current and future human beings.
World HQ
Paris, France
Size
€284 Million
Industry
Energy & Utilities
Results
75%
budget towards purchasing
90
days to go live
98%
cut in approval rules
