How Snowflake Consolidated its Procurement Tech With Zip

Regarded as a global leader in data cloud mobilisation, Snowflake faced a critical challenge as it scaled: procurement processes at the company were fragmented and inefficient, leading to silos across numerous tools.

The company was also home to a landscape where managers were working autonomously, investing in an array of tools to help solve their own, individual problems. However, this put additional layers of complexity on to operations and resulted in challenges that saw Snowflake face the increased scrutiny and compliance expectations that come with being a public company.

Fragmentation hindered Snowflake's ability to move fast in a rapidly evolving technology and market landscape.

Together, these challenges caused the company to turn to Zip.

Streamlining operations: Zip's unified platform solution

Through Zip and its user-friendly procurement intake management platform, Snowflake immediately streamlined its operations. The platform helped to align systems that had become fragmented, and automated cross-functional review processes. Zip became a single door for all requests and purchase information, answering Snowflake's call to action.

Joe Frederick, Sr. Director of Procurement & Sourcing at Snowflake, says: "Our north star was putting all privacy, legal, security and procurement workflows in one visualisation and approval process.

"All we did was send an email the day before going live and adoption took off. There was no change management needed. Zero."

Zip delivered Snowflake a comprehensive intake to pay platform that not only unified procurement processes but also gained enthusiastic company-wide adoption. Zip's ease of use allowed Snowflake to tackle its procurement challenges head-on.

Visibility, efficiency and substantial savings

Thanks to Zip's intervention, Snowflake was able to obtain a comprehensive view of its spending data, which has been crucial as it helps to drive over 3.3 billion data queries and runs more than 515 million data workloads each day. The platform's ability to streamline approval workflows and provide clear, trackable processes was a huge step forward for the team at Snowflake.

Joe adds: "Zip knocks it out of the park. The one-page screen—the workflows that show each and every step… employees love it.

"We're finally measuring the whole process for the first time—and the cycles within that process are faster than ever."

Zip prides its platform on its ability to cut through the clutter, thanks to its purpose-built foundations. Because it streamlines approval workflows, customisable to Snowflake's organisational hierarchies, the teams at Snowflake have gained visibility into the procurement journey stage-by-stage.

Zip believes that, all in all, it's hard to imagine a better example of procurement transformation at scale.