NEW YORK & LONDON & MUMBAI, India--(BUSINESS WIRE) --Sep. 22, 2025-- WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), a digital-led business transformation and services company, today announced its strategic engagement with the DRÄXLMAIER Group, an international automotive supplier with more than 60 sites in over 20 countries.
WNS Procurement will manage the implementation of Ivalua’s Spend Management platform to enhance efficiency and unify DRÄXLMAIER’s procurement processes. This new engagement will replace DRÄXLMAIER’s existing procurement systems with an integrated, state-of-the-art solution that enhances Supplier Risk & Performance Management, Sourcing, Contract Lifecycle Management, and eProcurement – ensuring optimized global procurement operations.
"WNS Procurement helps organizations unlock the full potential of their procurement functions through strategic digital transformation. This approach transforms procurement into a proactive value creation engine, directly aligned to achieving business results. By deploying Ivalua’s platform, we will support DRÄXLMAIER to drive greater efficiency and proactively address risks across increasingly complex supply chains. This implementation delivers tangible value to the bottom-line with data-driven and digitally enabled procurement solutions," said Keshav R. Murugesh, Group CEO, WNS.
"Leveraging Ivalua’s platform enables us to modernize, streamline and digitize our procurement processes for both direct and indirect spend," said Robert Suvak, Head of Procurement at DRÄXLMAIER. "With the help of WNS Procurement this transformation will improve efficiency, enhance supplier collaboration, and support our mission to advance the automotive industry. We have an ambitious transformation vision designed to elevate our market leading position. Leveraging WNS Procurement’s expertise is essential to realizing that vision."
"Ivalua is proud to be the trusted spend management technology provider for the automotive industry," said Jan-Hendrik Sohn, VP Sales Central & Northern Europe at Ivalua. "WNS Procurement’s proven implementation expertise, alongside our best-in-class platform, represent a key differentiator for DRÄXLMAIER as it looks to digital transformation to drive automotive innovation."
WNS Procurement is a market leader in procurement and supply chain advisory, managed services and digital transformation. Procurement teams of the Global 2000 across industries partner with WNS Procurement to become the top value creator in their business by implementing category-driven models powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Human Intelligence (HI).
About DRÄXLMAIER
The DRÄXLMAIER Group develops and manufactures complex wiring harness systems, exclusive interiors, and innovative solutions for the mobility of the future, including high-performance high-voltage battery systems, on an end-to-end and cross-system basis. The globally present company thereby covers the entire process chain: from the initial idea, through the development process, and up to precisely in sequence delivery of the products to the assembly lines of automobile manufacturers. As a family business, DRÄXLMAIER also attaches particular importance to responsible and sustainable business practices for the benefit of people, the environment and society.
About Ivalua
Ivalua is a leading provider of cloud-based, Spend Management software powered by AI agents. Our unified Source-to-Pay platform enables businesses to better manage all categories of spend and all suppliers, increasing profitability, improving sustainability, lowering risk and boosting employee productivity. We are trusted by hundreds of the world’s most admired brands and recognized as a leader by Gartner and other analysts. Learn more at www.ivalua.com.
About WNS
WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS) is a digital-led business transformation and services company. WNS combines deep domain expertise with talent, technology, and AI to co-create innovative solutions for over 700 clients across various industries. WNS delivers an entire spectrum of solutions including industry-specific offerings, customer experience services, finance and accounting, human resources, procurement, and research and analytics to re-imagine the digital future of businesses. As of June 30, 2025, WNS had 66,085 professionals across 65 delivery centers worldwide including facilities in Canada, China, Costa Rica, India, Malaysia, the Philippines, Poland, Romania, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States.
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FAQs
1. How is WNS transforming DRÄXLMAIER’s procurement?
The extensive DRÄXLMAIER procurement transformation handles the modernization of end-to-end sourcing operations across its global automotive supply network. By standardizing disparate regional processes and introducing unified digital workflows, WNS helps the organization transition from tactical execution to a strategic source-to-pay (S2P) model. This structural shift optimizes multi-million dollar spend categories while establishing complete corporate spend visibility.
2. What role does Ivalua’s platform play in this transformation?
Implementing the cloud-based Ivalua procurement platform serves as the central technological backbone for this global digitization strategy. The software unifies supplier onboarding, master data management, contract repositories, and transactional invoicing into a single source of truth. This centralized visibility eliminates data silos, enforces contract compliance, and significantly reduces purchase order cycle times.
3. How does digital procurement improve supplier collaboration?
Building a connected ecosystem directly accelerates supplier collaboration procurement teams rely on for operational continuity. Digital portals provide external vendors with self-service capabilities to update compliance certification, monitor real-time invoice statuses, and respond instantly to RFPs. This transparent digital data stream reduces friction, eliminates costly miscommunications, and strengthens strategic, long-term vendor partnerships.
4. What benefits can companies expect from digital procurement transformation?
The primary digital procurement benefits realized during a successful rollout span across dramatic process efficiencies, hard cost savings, and risk mitigation. Sourcing organizations unlock deep analytics capabilities that quickly expose maverick spending patterns and supplier delivery failures. Furthermore, automating routine administrative tasks allows teams to focus on active category negotiation and total cost of ownership (TCO) optimization.
5. How is AI applied in DRÄXLMAIER’s procurement process?
Deploying advanced AI in procurement environments enables the automated ingestion and classification of complex global spend data. Machine learning algorithms flag potential risk patterns, spot supplier compliance variations, and optimize working capital models. This cognitive layer allows automotive procurement leaders to shift away from retrospective analysis to implement predictive, preemptive risk tracking.
6. How does the strategic partnership between WNS Procurement and Ivalua deliver unique value to complex global enterprises?
WNS Procurement enhances the deployment of leading technology systems by combining world-class change management and operational consulting with advanced platforms like Ivalua. Rather than simply delivering a software configuration, WNS applies deep domain expertise and managed category services to ensure rapid user adoption and process alignment. This unique approach guarantees global enterprises maximize their digital ROI, secure continuous cost savings, and build a highly resilient supply chain.