UPL and Ivalua: Scaling Globally with One Procurement Platform

Discover why UPL selected Ivalua as their go-to solution, driven by its unmatched flexibility for global operations and superior strategic sourcing capabilities that outshine market competitors.

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Industry:

Manufacturing

Headquarters:

Mumbai, India

Employees:

12,000

Website:

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About UPL

Headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra and founded in 1969, UPL has established itself as a significant player in the agribusiness sector, specializing in the research and development, manufacture, packaging, and marketing of agrochemicals, including pesticides, herbicides, and fungicides.

Challenges

Before implementing Ivalua solutions, UPL faced significant challenges including competitive pressures, increased focus on quality, and fragmented procurement management processes.
UPL needed to centralize strategies, daily operations, and supply chain transparency across regions that were segmented. Their proposal was to move from an existing system that lacked data transparency and cohesion to a more flexible platform to track all spend and suppliers, supplier relationship management, and improve compliance as well as leverage supplier negotiations.
Improve management and control of direct spend transactions.

Benefits

Margin Improvement: Automated pricing compliance on direct materials has significantly boosted margins.
End-to-End Process Adoption: Achieved 100% PR-PO adoption in India through a top-down leadership approach, enabling the combination of multiple PRs into a single sourcing event for better outcomes.
Centralized Procurement: Established a global shared services unit in India to streamline operations, improve visibility, and increase overall efficiency.
Robust SAP Integrations:
- Scalable integration with SAP’s Pricing Condition Engine
- On-demand real-time budget checks
- Multi-tenant connectivity across SAP systems

Solutions Selected

Supplier Risk & Performance

Sourcing

Contract Management

eProcurement

Invoicing

Payments

Spend Analysis

The biggest benefit is having a single source of truth in one centralized platform. With strategic sourcing and transactional procurement on one platform globally, we benefitted from scale and efficiency.