Case Studies
Le Groupe Saur: Saving money with a multi-supplier platform
The Context
For more than 80 years, Saur employees have been ensuring that water is supplied in sufficient quantity and consistent quality, while meeting the environmental challenges associated with their activity. Producing and supplying drinking water, treating wastewater, designing, building, maintaining and operating the facilities needed to manage the water cycle: several thousand professionals work, every day, to help make water a quality good accessible to all.
Energy management is a crucial issue in carrying out its activities. Historically, Saur was exclusively supplied with energy by EDF. But the opening to competition in this field has put the cards back on the table and the slightest saving can now have a big impact on overall spending.
In this context, Saur started working with new energy suppliers and had to adapt its information system to maintain automatic data integration in a transparent way for its users. The Saur group's IT department therefore naturally turned to the search for a multi-vendor platform to anticipate future changes in this market, which has become very competitive.
The Project
After selecting from a number of solutions on the market, Saur opted for Neovacom's previous solution: "the initial implementation took quite a long time, and the acceptance procedure required adjustments to enable full integration into the group's information system, both for technical and financial data. The Neovacom team proved to be competent and available to support us throughout the project".
When Saur put part of its energy contracts out to tender again and selected ENGIE as its new supplier, the IT Department naturally turned to Neovacom to implement a new solution. For this project, the Freedz solution, developed in the meantime, was chosen. "We were able to capitalize on the previous project," explains Philippe Bovagnet. What's more, " Engie was already one of the suppliers available on Freedz, so the operation was totally transparent for us".
This project was very important for Saur: "We had set a strict and unchangeable deadline, driven by contractual objectives with Neovacom and ENGIE. The teams, available and involved, made it possible to meet these commitments".
Profits received
The benefits of this project are significant for Saur: "We now benefit from an invoice collection platform that allows us to easily change supplier, without the technical side being an obstacle, and therefore indirectly to participate in the savings linked to this competitive bidding.
"What's more, the supplier for whom this project was designed was already connected to Freedz for other customers. Its implementation was transparent for us, which enabled us to roll out the solution very quickly ".
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