Daimler achieves economies of scale in business travel procurement
The automotive industry has long been a pioneer in Supply-Chain Management and none more so than global automotive giant, Daimler. Indeed, the company views an integrated supply-chain as fundamental to its commitment to customer service.
The strategic investment in SAP Travel Management with Amadeus has been a major success.... Compliance has increased dramatically from 50% under the previous pre-approval system to over 90% in 2004. Overall, we achieved a saving in direct costs of $5.6 million per annum, while the indirect or ‘process’ cost per trip has decreased by 50+%.Daimler
With 104 manufacturing plants, 14,000 suppliers and 13,000 sales outlets across 200 countries, it has built a highly-efficient global supply-chain of extraordinary proportions.
Five years ago, Daimler recognised that the ERP systems implemented during the late nineties had created an opportunity to apply automotive supply-chain expertise to its extensive business travel operations.
The company realised that if it could achieve for business travel the same transparency of data, so meticulously developed for its core business, it could achieve savings in both time and money through economies of scale and greatly simplified processes.
Download our white-paper/case study to find out how Daimler has done just that in collaboration with BCD Travel, SAP and Amadeus.
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