At Cyrias, we adopt a “Fast Track” approach to deploying the Ivalua platform. This highly pragmatic approach enables our customers to benefit from the best purchasing practices offered by the solution within just a few weeks.
What is a Fast Track project?
A Fast Track project is defined primarily by its speed of deployment: on average 4 months.
It is based on the adoption of the Ivalua standard and the best practices it embeds. To facilitate adoption by future users, this standard is generally enhanced with the essential configurations and integrations to provide a Minimum Viable Solution (MVS). The Fast Track approach applies to all modules in the suite.
Fast Track main targets:
- Small and medium-sized businesses wishing to quickly control their expenses.
- Organisations of all sizes with non-compliant or obsolete purchasing solutions, wishing to structure their Purchasing and Finance processes within a short timeframe.
The Fast Track approach is a catalyst of digital transformation, with a progressive roll-out designed to generate rapid ROI. It enables our customers to adopt a continuous improvement approach and supports the skills development of their purchasing and finance teams.
What challenges does Fast Track address?
The Fast Track approach is a pragmatic response to several challenges:
- Implementation budget control: adoption of a standard, rapidly deployable solution, enabling project costs to be limited while meeting short-term profitability requirements.
- Internal resources optimization: implementation of a “a ‘MVS’ solution focused on key processes, concentrating effort on a restricted project team.
- Addressing to compliance and transparency issues: ability to rapidly deploy a structuring solution to address the obligations encountered by some of our customers in sensitive contexts such as an IPO or M&A operation.
- Accelerated value creation: rapid demonstration of purchasing gains to justify investment and demonstrate measurable ROI from the earliest phases of the project.
- Standardisation and governance of processes: centralisation of purchasing practices within a single tool to guarantee greater visibility, operational consistency and strategic alignment.
Fast-track project deployment is made possible using a robust, standardized methodology that have been refined through 10+ projects:
| Steps | Contents | Week |
| Kick Off | Reminder of scope, deliverables and methodology. Demonstration of the standard solution. | 1 |
| Workshops | 3 to 4 module presentation workshops. Collection of key processes and interfaces to be configured. | 1 to 3 |
| Configuration & Integration | Module configuration, activation of mandatory interfaces. | 2 to 8 |
| Testing & Training | Provision of a configured platform. Administrator and key user training. | 9 to 11 |
| Go-live | Organization of production go-live. | 12 |
| Hypercare | Cyrias support for the first 4 weeks. | 12 to 15 |
Cyrias: your partner for Fast Track deployment
Cyrias, backed by its experience in several Fast Track projects, mobilizes:
- A dedicated project team, expert in the Ivalua solution, throughout your project
- Specific supports material and guides adapted to each project
- Post-Go-live support to enrich and progressively evolve the solution.
Our aim: to help our customers get the most out of their Ivalua platform in the shortest possible timeframe, while giving you solid foundations to build your purchasing information system over the long term.
Would you like to accelerate the digital transformation of your purchasing processes? Ivalua Fast Track with Cyrias is the ideal solution for rapid, controlled and structured deployment.
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