Capgemini, one of the world’s foremost consulting technology, and outsourcing service providers has been awarded a five-year contract by the Hilti Corporation, one of the world’s leading technology suppliers for the construction industry.

Capgemini Procurement Services, a new division of Capgemini Business Process Outsourcing unit, now provides the complete suite of electronic solutions for Hilti’s Procurement Indirect Materials, leveraging its IBX on-demand technology platform.

The project with Hilti is now live with the first phase in Germany. More than 3,000 end-users are guided to an electronic ordering process with a full scope of call-off methods including catalogues, web-shops, vendor forms and free text orders. Hilti will channel all suitable indirect spend via one channel through the “IBX on demand platform”. Hilti and Capgemini further plan to introduce Contract Management, automatic Invoice Matching and Electronic Sourcing with Online RFPs (Request for Proposals).

Capgemini will work with Hilti to reduce complexity and to increase transparency in the procurement process for indirect materials. The target is to increase efficiency, contract compliance and spend under management while achieving cost savings.

Jürgen Friederici, Senior VP Procurement Indirect Materials, from Hilti said “We chose Capgemini above competitors because they were offering smart customer relationship management and best industry practice with realistic and measurable goals. Their offering focused on quality and a partnership built on honesty and trust. Capgemini’s eProcurement solutions and content management system with full integration into our ERP was unequalled. We look forward to working with them over the next five years.”

Leif Bohlin, Capgemini Procurement Services Lead said: “This deal is the perfect match: Hilti’s on demand offering for drilling machines is the ideal metaphor to explain Capgemini’s Procurement as a Service model. Hilti is very well known for its outperforming and outlasting machinery – and we will supply them with an as robust ‘procurement as a service’ solution.”