Axiata Group Berhad, a leading Asian telecommunications company, has partnered with Bristlecone and SAP to transform its sourcing and procurement departments, reduce costs and drive best-in-class processes.
By standardising and streamlining procurement processes across all their operating companies, Axiata expects to improve its ability to view expenses across all operating companies, reduce costs, facilitate compliance, and identify inefficient, non-standard processes.
In this first-of-a-kind project for Malaysia, Axiata is using the on-premise version of the SAP Supplier Relationship Management application for requisition to PO processes and the SAP Spend Performance Management analytic application, along with cloud-based procurement applications from SAP Ariba. Through the deployment of a harmonised, scalable eProcurement platform, Axiata hopes to achieve greater efficiency, visibility and governance.
“The transformation journey has not been an easy one. Bristlecone’s dedication, professionalism and commitment have been crucial factors in the implementation of the eProcurement platform which has been one of the key elements in our transformation process,” said Peter Chen Heng, head – process and compliance, Axiata.
“Axiata was by far the most mature implementation in the Procurement Ecosystem out of our 250+ engagements we have successfully completed. They are truly ahead of the market,” said Irfan Khan, CEO and president, Bristlecone.
Axiata decided to work with SAP for the project because of its best-in-class functionality, ability to customise solutions and high level of security and scalability.
“The 21st century enterprise cannot achive its cost, revenue and cashflow goals without being connected. Software from SAP will help assist Axiata to organise resources and optimise collaboration across their current procurement structure, to achieve new levels of innocation, efficiency and agility to run simple,” said Terrence Yong, managing director, SAP Malaysia. “We look forward to working with Bristlecone to enable this digital transformation at Axiata.”
