Intake-to-Procure

Capture unmanaged spend and guide any employee through the purchase approval process.

Customer results

PO-backed spend
IT and security compliance
Cycle time reduction

Dynamic intake

Capture all procurement requests through one tool, from purchases to contracts.

Collaborative approvals

Streamline financial, legal, IT, and security approvals to give employees complete visibility into request progress.

Full orchestration

Integrate your critical tools into Zip workflows and orchestrate your whole process from request to payment.

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Customer case studies

Industry
Software
Employees
1200+

“Since we implemented Zip, we can approve spend faster, we can approve it in parallel, and as a final approver, I have more confidence that we've done our due diligence during the process.”

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Ivan Markarov
Ivan Markarov
VP of Finance
Before Zip
  • Challenging spend approval coordination across finance, legal, procurement, IT, and security  teams in a scaling business
  • Time wasted for legal teams without a centralized contract repository 
  • No control over upcoming contract negotiations
After Zip
  • Decreased approval cycle times by 88% in Zip
  • Cross-functional visibility into all vendor approvals 
  • 360° view of all vendor data across renewals, documents, financial transactions, security surveys, and approval history
  • Challenging spend approval coordination across finance, legal, procurement, IT, and security  teams in a scaling business
  • Time wasted for legal teams without a centralized contract repository 
  • No control over upcoming contract negotiations
  • Decreased approval cycle times by 88% in Zip
  • Cross-functional visibility into all vendor approvals 
  • 360° view of all vendor data across renewals, documents, financial transactions, security surveys, and approval history
Industry
Financial services
Employees
7000+

“We’ve been able to create earlier awareness and visibility for our sourcing needs. This allows us to rationalize new requests against existing vendor solutions, enabling cost savings. With Zip we have increased our overall visibility across the entire lifecycle from intake to order. "

Jeff Wagner
Jeff Wagner
Sr. Director of Procurement Operations
Before Zip
  • Duplicative expenses due to vendor proliferation
  • Fragmented approval process
  • Late engagement for sourcing requests
After Zip
  • Rationalize requests for new spend against existing vendor solutions. 
  • Vendors properly vetted by capturing necessary approvals in a timely and consistent manner  
  • Dynamic approval process adopted allowing for seamless partnering with our stakeholders.   
  • Earlier engagement with business partners to drive better decision making.
  • Duplicative expenses due to vendor proliferation
  • Fragmented approval process
  • Late engagement for sourcing requests
  • Rationalize requests for new spend against existing vendor solutions. 
  • Vendors properly vetted by capturing necessary approvals in a timely and consistent manner  
  • Dynamic approval process adopted allowing for seamless partnering with our stakeholders.   
  • Earlier engagement with business partners to drive better decision making.
Industry
Cryptoeconomy platform
Employees
4000+

“Zip is key to transparency, simplification, collaboration and efficiency for our procurement process.”

Cindy Yan
Cindy Yan
VP, Global Source to Pay & Real Estate Strategy
Before Zip
  • Multiple cross-functional  systems that didn’t fit together
  • Business requesters were confused about systems and process
  • No visibility into approval and purchase request workflows
After Zip
  • Cross-functional collaboration made the team more successful in negotiations much earlier in the cycle
  • Vendor onboarding time reduced from 44 to only 27 days
  • Improved spend management with aligned POs
  • Multiple cross-functional  systems that didn’t fit together
  • Business requesters were confused about systems and process
  • No visibility into approval and purchase request workflows
  • Cross-functional collaboration made the team more successful in negotiations much earlier in the cycle
  • Vendor onboarding time reduced from 44 to only 27 days
  • Improved spend management with aligned POs
Industry
Observability software
Employees
3600+

“Zip enables us to provide exceptional customer care while creating much-needed process visibility and structure. It would have taken us years to achieve this on our own.”

Ed Petrush
Ed Petrush
Senior Director of Global Procurement
Before Zip
  • A hyper-growth enterprise organization with a siloed procurement process across disparate teams and systems
  • Difficult oversight and an inflated supplier base
  • Wasted time on manual reviews and approvals
After Zip
  • Intake-to-procure created the foundation for an integrated global procurement function
  • $375M in addressable spending and a supplier base of nearly 3,500 vendors under management.
  • 100% compliance on payment orders of over $1K
  • A hyper-growth enterprise organization with a siloed procurement process across disparate teams and systems
  • Difficult oversight and an inflated supplier base
  • Wasted time on manual reviews and approvals
  • Intake-to-procure created the foundation for an integrated global procurement function
  • $375M in addressable spending and a supplier base of nearly 3,500 vendors under management.
  • 100% compliance on payment orders of over $1K
Industry
Financial Services
Employees
430

“I never expected to hear such amazing feedback from our end stakeholders; they feel like this is a huge win. It's a time-saving improvement for them. They also appreciate the visibility they have on each individual request. They can actually track their progress and see their own cues.”

Peter Lorimer
Peter Lorimer
Chief Financial Officer
Before Zip
  • Internal customers frustrated by the lack of transparency into the purchasing and approval process
  • Mature finance function and defined purchasing process but no dedicated resources to run procurement or stood up
  • Turned on POs in NetSuite, but rolled back due to negative business experience
After Zip
  • $400K+ in purchase savings from increased visibility and adoption of purchase process by stakeholders
  • Automated purchase intake and vendor review allow finance to run complex procurement process without hiring a dedicated team
  • Successfully brought POs to the business by leveraging Zip’s integration to NetSuite
  • Internal customers frustrated by the lack of transparency into the purchasing and approval process
  • Mature finance function and defined purchasing process but no dedicated resources to run procurement or stood up
  • Turned on POs in NetSuite, but rolled back due to negative business experience
  • $400K+ in purchase savings from increased visibility and adoption of purchase process by stakeholders
  • Automated purchase intake and vendor review allow finance to run complex procurement process without hiring a dedicated team
  • Successfully brought POs to the business by leveraging Zip’s integration to NetSuite

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