About Vexa Electronics
Vexa Electronics assembles control boards and sensor modules across eighteen sites, each historically run as its own buying operation.
The challenge
“Eighteen sites meant eighteen ways of buying, and sometimes two of them calling the same supplier in the same week.”
Group finance could not see committed spend until invoices arrived, and sites negotiated as though each were alone.
The solution
Sites keep their autonomy but share one catalogue, one approval policy and one view of commitments. Group sets the rules centrally; sites operate inside them.
The results
“We kept local control and still stopped negotiating against ourselves.”
Order cycles shortened by nearly a third, and group finance sees commitments as they are made rather than six weeks later.
Looking ahead
Vexa is consolidating its top twenty suppliers onto group agreements now that it can finally see combined volume.
