How Stena Metall gained full control of spend with Ignite
Discover how Stena Metall used Ignite to gain full control over spend, improve contract compliance, and drive strategic decision-making across the organization.
Spend Intelligence
Find more savings from your procurement spend.
Full spendvisibility. AI-powered savings opportunities. Decisions grounded in data. Ignite turns your procurement data into something you can own and act on, so you can find more savings and spend less time on analysis.
Customers typically find 5 to 10% savings in addressablespend
Procurement data you can’t trust is hard to act on.
Most procurement teams are working with data they don't own and can't fully trust. Getting a clear picture of where spend is going shouldn't be this hard.
Data you don’t own
Spend data is spread across ERPs, accounting systems, and spreadsheets. Getting it into one place falls on you.
Data you can’t fully trust
Even when you pull it together, spend data is rarely clean, complete, or structured the way you need it. Before you can act on it, someone has to fix it manually.
Analysis takes too long
Building reports in Excel or PowerBI takes hours that should be spent finding savings and managing suppliers.
Not enough answers
Basic reporting tells you what was spent, not where off-contract spend is happening, which categories have consolidation potential, or what your payment terms look like across suppliers.
Ignite Intelligence
With Ignite, procurement data stops becoming something you manage, and starts becoming something you act on.
The old way
- Data spread across systems you don’t own
- Data that's rarely clean or structured the way you need it
- Hours spent in Excel and PowerBI to get to basic analysis
- Opportunities found through time-consuming analysis
- Savings tracked in spreadsheets
The Ignite way
- One clean, connected data foundation you own
- Data cleaned, structured, and ready to use from day one
- Analysis available instantly, without rebuilding reports manually
- Opportunities flagged automatically by saving agents
- Savings managed and measured in one place
AI Powered
Reliable data for complex procurement
Ignite gives you a clean, connected data foundation from day one, so you can focus on finding opportunities, not fixing data.
A procurement data foundation you can own and trust
Ignite pulls data from ERPs, accounting systems, and other sources into one place, turning messy inputs into a reliable foundation. Messy data is not a barrier to getting started. It’s exactly what Ignite is built for.
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Manage spend by category, not just by supplier
Ignite AI to classify spend against your taxonomy automatically, structured to your business units and categories, and ready to use from day one. Every suggestion is visible before it's applied, so you stay in control.
Book demoSpend in full context
Ignite connects spend to contracts, suppliers, performance, risk, and emissions, so every decision comes with the context it needs. See where agreements are being missed, which suppliers need attention, and where value is slipping.
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Answers without the manual work
Ready-made dashboards cover the questions you ask every day, without rebuilding reports in Excel or PowerBI. When you need to go further, Ignite AI continuously flags supplier bundling and renegotiation opportunities, so you focus on acting rather than searching.
Book demoTrack savings from initiative to impact
Turn identified opportunities into initiatives and track progress from start to finish, so savings are documented, measurable, and easy to report upward.
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Ignite Intelligence
Prompt your procurement data, get an answer
Ask Ignite lets you query your procurement data in plain language and get clear answers in seconds.
Ask in plain language
Type a question, get an answer. Ask about a supplier before a renegotiation and Ask Ignite pulls together everything you need, like spend history and performance, all from your data.
Generate reports instantly
Turn any question into a chart or visualization without building a report from scratch. Ask Ignite creates it for you on the spot. Just save and monitor.
Answers grounded in your business
Ask Ignite is trained on procurement and grounded in your specific data and context, so every answer reflects how your business actually works.
"With Ignite's AI classification, I was able to do what would normally take a full business day in less than an hour. In the last few days alone, I’ve classified a couple million euros of spend and a couple thousand transactions, and it took minutes, not hours.”
"The onboarding was hands-on and pragmatic, with a dedicated customer success manager who understood our business and challenges, allowing us to get useful insights quickly."
“With 1,500 suppliers and ESG criteria included in our assessments, there’s no way to identify which of our suppliers stand out without a good solution — you need a tool to collect, harmonize, and utilize this information.”
"Ignite dynamically displays updated spend data tailored to each situation. Whether we’re preparing for a supplier evaluation or managing a category, Ignite helps us find and display the data in a way that drives better results."
"Ignite stops the drudgery of maintaining and updating complex data sets. It lets us focus on what we do best - discovering areas for improvement, defining strategies, and making data-driven decisions."
"Ignite helps us manage our spend, making it easy to work fact-based with procurement across all our business units and categories.”
“We chose Ignite because the platform provides us with a great overview and rich analytics capabilities, as well as having all data collected in one place - which is the best starting point for actionable analyses and covering all emission categories."
Commonly asked questions
Answers to the questions we hear most from procurement teams. Still have one? Book a demo and we'll walk you through it.
Does Ignite work with our existing systems?
Yes. Ignite connects to your ERPs, accounting systems, and other data sources and pulls everything into one place, even when formats differ.
Our spend data is messy. Is that a problem?
No, it’s exactly what Ignite is built for. Ignite cleans, normalizes, and harmonizes your data, so you get a reliable foundation you own and trust.
How does Ignite classify spend?
Ignite AI suggests how to categorize spend based on your taxonomy and how your business is structured. Every suggestion is visible before it’s applied, so your team stays in control of what gets used. Customers see a 96% approval rate on AI suggestions.
How long does it take to get started?
Most customers are get to value within 30 days. Onboarding is guided, no heavy IT involvement is required, and your Customer Success team is focused on helping you succeed.
Can we build our own reports and dashboards?
Ignite has ready-made dashboards that cover the majority of what you need day to day. For ad-hoc questions, Ask Ignite lets you query your data in plain language and get answers instantly. And if you come across something worth tracking over time, you can save it as a dashboard and monitor it going forward.
Better intelligence. Faster decisions. Real savings.
More time fixing data than finding savings.
Ignite changes that.