Lucchini RS deploys Ivalua in just 30 days to manage Sourcing & Auctions processes

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Lucchini RS deploys Ivalua in just 30 days to manage Sourcing & Auctions processes

Orsay, France - January 6th, 2016 - Ivalua, a leading global spend management solutions provider, announced today that Italian industrial group Lucchini RS uses Ivalua's solution to more efficiently manage sourcing and auction processes with their suppliers.

The partnership between Ivalua and Lucchini RS was signed in April 2015 and the platform was made available to Lucchini RS's buyers in just 30 days. As a second step, Lucchini RS will deploy the Ivalua SRM solution in 2016.

"Ivalua solution has proven to be extremely efficient in helping us managing complex sourcing processes and turn on great saving opportunities. We deployed Ivalua solution rapidly and achieve ROI within few weeks. We're now looking forward to the next step of our partnership with the deployment of Ivalua SRM solution achieving even greater savings" declared Francesco CANTONI, Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Manager at Lucchini RS.

Lucchini RS use Ivalua to:

• Easily manage all types of sourcing events ??? spot bids to full strategic sourcing.


• Accelerate the sourcing process with templates and specific workflows.


• Collaborate with key stakeholders on RFP preparation, proposal evaluations and bid awards.


• Get global visibility over all sourcing events and timelines.

 "We're delighted to count Lucchini RS as part of Ivalua customer community. We believe Sourcing is where procurement can deliver its highest strategic value. With Ivalua our customers unlocks the speed and insight required to manage complex projects and supplier interactions, and provides a solid platform to fully leverage real-time information to negotiate effectively." Gérard DAHAN General Manager IVALUA EMEA

Join Francesco Cantoni, Strategic Procurement and Supply Chain Department manager at Lucchini RS during the next IVALUA PROCUREMENT AFTER WORK 21th January 2016 in Hotel Principe di Savoia in Milan. Mr Cantoni will show the performance gains resulting from the deployment of Ivalua sourcing module through practical use-cases and unveil the key success factors of the Lucchini RS project.

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About Ivalua

is a global provider of spend management solutions and a leader in Gartner's 2015 Strategic Sourcing Magic Quadrant. Ivalua's cloud-based software is used by procurement and finance organizations in large, global companies, and every day more than 500,000 users and millions of suppliers from over 70 countries log into the Ivalua platform. Ivalua offers a single platform solution with highly configurable functionality across all major procurement and finance processes, including performance and risk tracking, sourcing, contracts, procure to pay, invoice automation and analytics. The breadth and flexibility of Ivalua's offering accelerates user adoption, spend category coverage and bottom-line savings.

About Lucchini RS Group

Lucchini RS Group is an international leader in the design and production of railway products, castings and forgings intended for all industrial sectors, as well as tool steels and forged ingots.

The Group produces a wide range of railway products: wheels, axles, tyres, wheelsets destined to High Speed transport, Mass Transit systems and Freight and Heavy Haul transport. It manufactures high quality steel castings and forgings used in different sectors such as power generation, aerospace, offshore, petrochemicals, plant engineering, steel industry or shipbuilding. Lucchini RS Group is also specialised in the production of a wide range of tool steels for moulding, die-casting, gravity die-casting and extrusion.

Thanks to its international presence in the railway sector, Lucchini RS Group has become one of the main manufacturers of high quality products in the world, with subsidiary companies located in UK, Sweden, Poland, Austria, Belgium, China and India. This network provides an effective contribution to the railway industry in terms of high quality components and sub-assemblies for rolling stock and maintenance services.

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Aurélie LUCAS IVALUA Marketing & Communication Manager Tel: +33 1 64 86 54 90 -

Fanny LUCAS IVALUA Marketing & Communication executive LD : +33 1 64 86 45 07 -