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Streamlining Global Supplier Management with a Unified Digital Platform

A Diversified Powerhouse Shaping Indonesia’s Industrial Future

As one of Indonesia’s most prominent and diversified business groups, the organization operates across multiple industries including pulp and paper, agribusiness, energy, telecommunications, financial services, and real estate. With decades of business leadership, it has established a reputation for driving industrial growth and economic development across Southeast Asia. The conglomerate’s operations span a broad global footprint, supplying products and services to numerous markets while maintaining a strong focus on sustainability, innovation, and responsible resource management. Its subsidiaries employ thousands of professionals and collaborate with an extensive network of suppliers, partners, and distributors worldwide, enabling the organization to maintain agility and competitiveness across sectors.
As the enterprise’s geographic reach and business scale continued to grow, managing supplier relationships across diverse industries became increasingly strategic. Each business unit maintained its own supplier processes and systems, leading to fragmented onboarding experiences and limited real-time insights. To enhance collaboration, governance, and efficiency, the organization partnered with the Cherrywork Suite of Digital Solutions from Incture, envisioning a unified digital supplier ecosystem designed to bring consistency, visibility, and agility to supplier management across all business entities.

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Challenge:
Strengthening Governance and Efficiency Through Better Integration

Challenge:
Strengthening Collaboration and Visibility across a Global Supplier Ecosystem
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With operations spanning multiple industries and regions, the organization managed a dynamic and diverse supplier ecosystem that played a critical role in ensuring business continuity and growth. As supplier engagement increased, the onboarding process required closer coordination across departments and geographies. Each business unit followed its own workflows, approval hierarchies, and documentation practices, which created a growing need for process alignment. The reliance on emails, spreadsheets, and manual exchanges made it more time-intensive to consolidate information, verify credentials, and track progress. As global operations scaled, the organization identified the opportunity to establish a consistent and agile onboarding framework, one that would streamline supplier data management and strengthen governance across all regions.
To further enhance operational efficiency, the business sought a centralized digital platform that could connect procurement, finance, and compliance teams in real time. This would allow teams to access a unified view of supplier information, eliminating repetitive documentation efforts and ensuring that every stakeholder worked with accurate, up-to-date data. The absence of such visibility made it harder to proactively monitor onboarding timelines or gain strategic insights into supplier performance trends. By introducing a connected and transparent system, the organization aimed to accelerate supplier enablement, improve inter-departmental collaboration, and empower decision-makers with real-time intelligence, laying the foundation for scalable and sustainable supplier relationship management.

Solution:
Strengthening Governance Through Integrated Automation

Solution:
Streamlining Supplier Onboarding through a Unified Digital Platform
To bring greater consistency, transparency, and efficiency to its supplier management processes, the organization implemented the Cherrywork Supplier Collaboration Portal , a cloud-based, SAP-integrated solution designed to unify supplier onboarding and collaboration across all business units. The platform introduced a seamless self-registration process developed using SAPUI5, enabling suppliers to register independently through a single digital interface. This feature simplified the initial onboarding stage, allowing suppliers to submit documents, certifications, and compliance information directly through the portal. Built-in workflows were designed to support verification, compliance checks, and risk assessment, ensuring that every new supplier met organizational standards before becoming part of the network.
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The Cherrywork platform further streamlined collaboration by providing real-time visibility into onboarding progress for all stakeholders. Procurement, compliance, and finance teams could now access the same up-to-date information, significantly improving coordination and decision-making. Automated approval workflows minimized administrative effort, while periodic supplier data verification maintained the accuracy and reliability of master data. By consolidating multiple regional processes into a single, standardized platform, the solution transformed supplier management into a transparent, efficient, and data-driven function enhancing trust, speed, and collaboration across the global supplier ecosystem.

Results:
Transforming Weeks into Days: Measurable Accounts Payable Impact

Results:
Accelerating Efficiency and Strengthening Supplier Collaboration
The implementation of the Cherrywork Supplier Collaboration Portal brought measurable improvements across the organization’s supplier management ecosystem. Supplier onboarding time was reduced by 3X, enabling faster partner enablement and more agile business operations. With digital self-registration and automated workflows, the organization successfully onboarded 40 new suppliers each month, accelerating supply chain responsiveness and improving time-to-market. The unified portal eliminated redundant processes and manual coordination, resulting in 40% cost savings through process digitalization and enhanced operational efficiency.
Beyond measurable gains, the solution established a single source of truth for supplier data, ensuring consistency, transparency, and compliance across all business units. Real-time access to onboarding status and supplier records strengthened internal collaboration, while periodic data verification-maintained integrity and reliability. The result was a scalable, insight-driven supplier management process—empowering teams to make informed decisions, mitigate risks, and foster stronger, long-term supplier relationships.

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