500+ tail-spend suppliers centralized for Corning

Supporting an innovation giant in managing its tail spend. Consolidating the supplier base for increased administrative and accounting efficiency.

Corning Incorporated is an American company and a world leader in materials science, with a track record spanning more than 160 years. It designs and manufactures glass, ceramics, and optical physics products: damage-resistant cover glass for mobile devices, optical fiber and connectivity solutions for telecommunications networks, precision glass for displays, emissions-control technologies for the automotive sector, and life sciences products.

An industrial group of this kind, with operations spread across several continents and product families, generates a high volume of class C purchasing: non-strategic production components and consumables, laboratory equipment, maintenance and calibration services, packaging supplies, and one-off technical services at its manufacturing sites. The breadth of its business segments multiplies the number of purchasing categories to manage. Our transactional workload calculator puts a figure on that administrative load.