Customer Spotlight
Delivering Global Spend Visibility for PepsiCo
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Food & Beverage
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At a Glance
Key Takeawas
PepsiCo implemented SpendHQ to gain comprehensive, global procurement visibility, enabling quicker and more data-driven sourcing decisions.
Challenges
Prior to SpendHQ, PepsiCo struggled with fragmented, hard-to-access spend data across regions and systems, slowing decision-making efforts.
Benefits
With real‑time analytics, standardized reporting, and seamless integrations, PepsiCo’s procurement team now achieves faster insights, increased efficiency, and improved global spend management.
“By leveraging SpendHQ’s advanced analytics platform, we can identify spending patterns, track expenditures, and unlock opportunities for cost savings across all our procurement categories.”
Originally published in Procurement Magazine
Jose Bustillo, Vice President, Delivery & Procurement Excellence, explains how the platform helps PepsiCo make faster, more informed spending decisions
In today’s complex business environment, large organizations struggle to obtain clear visibility into their spend data. This challenge stems from several factors that create barriers to effective procurement intelligence.
Jose Bustillo, Vice President, Delivery & Procurement Excellence at SpendHQ, a spend analytics and performance management software provider, identifies the main obstacles companies face.
Jose Bustillo, Vice President, Delivery & Procurement Excellence at SpendHQ
“The complexity of data structures for different organizations, different departments and different ERP systems makes extracting value from data very complicated.”
Beyond siloed information, inconsistent data formats compound the problem: “I’ve worked with large organizations that use Excel spreadsheets, but then have different regions and different countries using a completely different variation in data entry formats.”
Why Use Spend Analytics?
When selecting a spend analytics solution, Jose emphasizes several critical capabilities, with integration functionality a primary consideration.
“At SpendHQ, we have more than 40 connectors and integrations with different products, including some of the largest and most used tech products available,” he explains.
Advanced analytics capabilities and dashboard flexibility are equally important. These features enable stakeholders to easily access and understand procurement information.
Jose Bustillo, Vice President, Delivery & Procurement Excellence at SpendHQ
“Solutions like SpendHQ provide data integration capabilities, advanced analytics, flexibility to create dashboards and a user-friendly interface, with a single source of truth to manage project data and spend.”
The SpendHQ-PepsiCo Partnership
PepsiCo partnered with SpendHQ to address a need for comprehensive spend visibility on a global scale.
Crucially, the beverage and snack giant sought a consolidated platform that employees could use with ease.
“SpendHQ unlocks opportunities for cost savings across all regions and categories, but also optimises sourcing strategies and efficiencies within procurement teams,” says Jose.
PepsiCo is seeing numerous advantages since implementing SpendHQ’s Spend Intelligence solution. Most notably, the company now benefits from comprehensive spend visibility through a single source of truth.
This visibility helps the procurement team make “faster, data-driven decisions by having quick access to insights, spend trends and spend patterns,” according to Jose. What previously took weeks now takes minutes, improving productivity and reducing cycle times for identifying risk or cost-saving opportunities.
The platform also facilitates better alignment between procurement activities and broader business objectives.
Jose notes: “It’s easier to align how procurement adds value to the business objectives as a whole.”
Lauren Hymen, Vice President for Strategy and Transformation at PepsiCo, calls the partnership with SpendHQ “transformative”.
Lauren Hymen, Vice President for Strategy and Transformation at PepsiCo
“SpendHQ provides us with comprehensive spend visibility on a global scale, allowing procurement associates to access critical data with just a few clicks.
“By leveraging SpendHQ’s advanced analytics platform, we can identify spending patterns, track expenditures, and unlock opportunities for cost savings across all our procurement categories.”
System Integration
As mentioned, SpendHQ’s ability to integrate with existing systems provides significant advantages, connecting with multiple ERP systems and other technology providers.
“Having the capability to integrate with multiple systems provides seamless data flow across all systems and reduces manual processing and reporting,” Jose explains.
This integration capability offers both flexibility and scalability.
“We are built for collaboration and it’s critical for companies to look into how seamless data flows work, especially with complex data,” Jose concludes.
“In the long term, that’s going to help close a lot of pain points. It will increase adoption, improve process alignment and bring scalability and flexibility benefits to the organisation as a whole.”
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