SKF: Enabling Procurement Excellence with SAP® Ariba® Solutions

By deploying SAP Ariba solutions, AB SKF is standardizing and harmonizing its direct procurement processes, introducing shared best practices, and delivering lower costs.
Before: Challenges and opportunities
- Standardize and simplify procurement processes across the global enterprise
- Reduce administration costs and complexity by introducing digital procurement workflows
- Increase compliance with the company procurement policy to 100%
Why SAP
- Comprehensive procurement management software integrated with the core SAP solutions
- Centralized compliance monitoring and control of purchasing behaviour
After: Value-driven results
- Simplified procurement with fully digital procure-to-order processes
- Greater compliance with the procurement policy and prompt, actionable feedback on results
- Empowerment of business units to agree on reduced supplier costs while ensuring quality
100 % of indirect spend with purchase orders in most categories
16,000 suppliers added to the master vendor database
SEK 40 million of spend controlled