Swissport chooses Ivalua to optimise its purchasing information system
Press release
Swissport chooses Ivalua
to optimise its purchasing information system
Orsay, France - 26th of September 2017 - Ivalua, the leading global provider of e-purchasing and spend management solutions, is proud to announce that the Swissport Group Services has selected the Ivalua solution.
As a world's largest provider of ground and cargo handling services in the aviation industry, Swissport provides services on behalf of some 835 client-companies and handles around 230 million passengers and 4.1 million flights (movements) per year.
« With the global deployment of the IVALUA solution, we aim to standardise our source to pay process, automate and optimise performance. Managing more efficiently the different stages of the source to pay workflow in a single tool, this is new to our organization, but is a very welcome change. Ivalua has impressed us from the beginning due to their competent and customer friendly approach. » explains Marianna Zangrillo, SVP and Group CPO at Swissport.
Providing Swissport's buyers with Ivalua's collaborative source to pay tool will empower their business in order to meet the following challenges:
· Establish a professional procure to pay process for all the externally acquired goods and services
· Close the gap between strategic sourcing and operational buying
· Fill the missing links between selected suppliers, negotiated contract conditions and purchase orders
· Reduce the number of transactions (invoices)
· Reduce the number of discrepancies between orders and invoices
· Introduce the 3-Way Match Process for invoices
· Automate the P2P process to reduce inefficiencies
« We are proud and honoured of the trust that Swissport has put in Ivalua for the group's Full Suite project. Using a powerful tool generates many short-term gains both in terms of workload for buyers and in terms of decision-making support, particularly for our clients in the industrial sector. Choosing Ivalua is a true mark of trust in our e-Purchasing know-how and our ability to provide innovative solutions for companies the size of Swissport Group Services » concludes Gilles Bismuth, Senior Vice President of Business & Development EMEA.
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About Ivalua
Ivalua is a global provider of Spend Management solutions and a leader in Gartner's 2017 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.
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About Swissport
Swissport International Ltd. provides ground services for more than 230 million passengers and handles 4.3 million tonnes of cargo a year on behalf of some 835 client-companies in the aviation sector. With a workforce of more than 62,000 personnel, Swissport is active at more than 280 stations in 48 countries across five continents, and generates consolidated operating revenue of EUR 2.7 billion.
Swissport contact:
Dr. Christian Goeseke T: + 41 43 815 01 30Media contact:
BuchananRichard Oldworth / Chris JuddT: +44 (0)20 7466 5000