Industry: Consumer Goods
Unilever PLC is a worldwide supplier of consumer goods in foods, household care and personal product categories. Since January 2001, the Company's operations have been organized into two global divisions, Foods and Home & Personal Care. This structure allows for improved focus on its division's activities at both the regional and global levels. These global divisions' operations are organized into businesses on a regional basis, with the exception of Diversey Lever and Prestige within Home & Personal Care, and the global businesses of Ice Cream and Frozen Foods and Food service within the Foods Division.
The Problem
The existing IT systems allowed for capture and analyses of spend only at a very top level. Hence detailed and actual spend areas went unnoticed largely. Unilever was looking for software that could classify transaction data with high accuracy and through put and with Real time classification capability and integration with Ariba Buyer.
Zycus Solution
Zycus comprehended the problems and given the pain points Unilever faced Zycus solution team recommended the deployment of Zycus' Spend Data Management Solution, which would help Unilever to get accelerated as well as more detailed insight into it’s spend landscape, by enabling data classification
- At a granular level including supplier, commodity, and plant level, and
- Automate the spend analysis process so that it can be done on an ongoing and real time basis.
The solution offered by Zycus was found suitable by Unilever due to:
- Accuracy
- Easy Integration with the existing Ariba E-procurement Software
- Auto Scheduler functionality
- Ease Of Training
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