Beyond efficiency
Coupled with its newly deployed“ Agentic Vertical”, Opella expects three wider benefits from the partnership with Candex.
1. Spend that was previously off-system or wrongly routed to Candex will be captured upfront and made reportable, feeding its value tracking and analytics.
2. Colleagues who once worked around procurement will have a frictionless route inside the governance framework, while procurement professionals can move from processing tail transactions to strategic, relationship-led work.
3. The partnership also supports Opella’ s ProcureTech ambitions. Candex is designed to handle engagement and payment without approved suppliers entering the core ERP unnecessarily.
“ You have to automate the tail to make orchestration work,” Lyvio explains,“ and Candex is precisely what will be making that possible.”
‘ It’ s always about the people’
For both Jeremy and Lyvio, the partnership’ s success ultimately comes down to people and mutual understanding.
“ It’ s always about the people,” Jeremy says, praising Opella for managing the Candex project“ at the very highest levels,” while Lyvio credits“ shared clarity” for the partnership’ s success, which enabled Candex to operate reliably within Opella’ s governance architecture.
Ultimately,“ a partner that makes your governance stronger earns a place in your architecture,” Lyvio says.
The next phase
Both teams are exploring higher-risk, traditionally unmanaged spend, such as payments outside purchase order processes known as maverick spend. Opella also sees scope for deeper analytics integration, growing volumes from AI-assisted sourcing, and a better supplier experience as it builds its supplier relationship management framework.
“ There’ s a lot of opportunity in some of those areas that are currently considered unmanaged spend,” Jeremy says. For Lyvio, the partnership is still evolving. He says:“ We are on a journey. We’ ve been accelerating quite a lot in the past months, and by the end of December, it’ s going to be totally in execution.”
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