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Nippon Gases ropes in Zycus to streamline its source-to-pay process over a multi-year deal

February 07, 2022:ย Nippon Gases, the fourth-largest industrial and medical gas company in Europe, signed a multi-year contract with Zycus, the pioneer inย Cognitive Procurement software suite.

Nippon Gases is the European part of Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation and present in 13 countries in Europe. Nippon Sanso Holdings group is more than $8B in revenue and employs more than 19,000 professionals.

With a goal of โ€œMaking life better through gas technologyโ€, Nippon Gases has embarked on the journey of digital transformation of its procurement processes with Zycus.

โ€œWe encourage collaborative innovations to make life better through our technological solutions and gases. Nippon Gases is undergoing a digitalization and transformation process to deliver a better experience to all of our key stakeholders. Zycus is a key partner in this journey, providing high-quality services and technologies that will optimize our process most efficiently.โ€โ€“ Gabriel Kiewek, Procurement Director, Nippon Gases.

โ€œThe Gas Professionalsโ€ understood the value of the fully integrated suite from the same vendor and thus transitioned from their existing manual and multi-software environment to an integrated and comprehensive source-to-pay solution. This will bring better synergies between various business units across Europe, serving 150,000+ customers.

Zycusโ€™ eProcย solution will improve efficiency and effectiveness across catalog, requisition, and purchase order management functions and eInvoicing solution will enable all suppliers to invoice digitally and deliver truly touchless A/P processing.

They also added Zycusโ€™ iRisk to the mix to ensure improved supplier collaboration & performance thus maintaining uninterrupted supply of gases.

โ€œZycus is confident that this digital transformation would add fuel to Nipponโ€™s overall mission of creating social value through innovative gas solutions that will enhance human well-being and contribute to a more sustainable futureโ€โ€“ Chiranjib Guha, Chief Customer Officer APAC EMEA, Zycus.

About Zycus:

Zycus is the pioneer in Cognitive Procurement software and has been a trusted partner of choice for large global enterprises for two decades. Zycus has been consistently recognized by Gartner, Forrester, and other analysts for its Source-to-Pay integrated suite. Zycus powers its S2P software with the revolutionary Merlin AI Suite. Merlin AI takes over the tactical tasks and empowers procurement and AP officers to focus on strategic projects; offers data-driven actionable insights for quicker and smarter decisions, and its conversational AI offers a B2C type user-experience to the end-users.

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About Nippon Gases: Nippon Gases, one of the leading industrial and medical gases companies in Europe, is part of the Nippon Sanso Holdings Corporation, which has over 100 years of experience and also boasts a major presence in Japan, Southeast Asia, Australia, the United States and Canada, operating in 31 countries with more than 19,000 employees around the world. Our presence in Europe positions us as a leading company with over 3,000 employees of which 27% are women, operating today in 13 countries and serving more than 150,000 customers. Safety, priority number one in our company, is constantly improving due to the search for risk factors and behaviours, and the observance of our safety principles by all our employees. Nippon Gases commitment to our customers, employees and associates and to the communities in which we operate is a reflection of our dedication to the environment and to sustainability. Together, we are โ€œThe Gas Professionalsโ€ and we all have the same goal: โ€œMaking life better through gas technologyโ€.

Zycus Inc.

Annie Arora

Manager โ€“ Marketing, Zycus Inc.
annie.arora@zycus.com