By adopting Coupa Category Strategy, Tata Steel replaced fragmented, manual processes with a standardized platform, improving strategy quality, governance, and overall business alignment.

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Company Overview

One of Europe's largest steel producers, supplying high-grade products across multiple demanding sectors.

Headquarters

Velsen-Noord, NL

Employees

11,500

Website

https://www.tatasteelnederland.com/en

Value as a service

Real-time

visibility into spend coverage

standardized platform

powered decisions backed by clean spend data

Challenge

Managed procurement via inconsistent manual templates.

Lacked clear vision into active strategies and total spend.

Disconnected business strategy from daily activities.

Struggled with low visibility and version control issues.

Solution

Coupa Category Strategy

Results

Replaced manual processes with a scalable platform.

Ensured consistent strategy development via guided approach.

Gained real-time visibility into strategy status and spend.

Enabled faster decisions through stronger collaboration.

"By moving to a digital solution that has stakeholder collaboration embedded in the process, jointly thinking about options and trade-offs became part of our process. This mindset and behavioral shift is what elevated a digitization project into a transformation."
— Daniel Kalmann, Digital Procurement Manager, Tata Steel Netherlands