Caesars Entertainment sets its sights high in delivering best-in-class sourcing practices and selected SAP® Ariba® to accomplish this goal. As for Caesars and most other industries, one essential cornerstone of emphasis is automation. Purchasing automation allows for several key benefits to be realized:
- Optimizes labor costs
- Reduces the chance of process or strategy failure
- Improves spend visibility and quality
- Provides an easy ordering experience for our team members
- Allows strategic sourcing to focus on strategic initiatives
In 2012, when Caesars stood up a complete procurement solution, the goal was to bring in polished, strategic-level skill sets and allow automation to manage the simpler transactions. This approach allows team members to be focused on value-add activities and allows the system to manage the simple day-to-day transactions.
Using SAP Ariba, the strategic sourcing department’s transactions are now around 80 percent automation and about 20 percent unplanned requests that need to be facilitated outside of normal pipeline events.
