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"Digitizing procurement is not a sprint, but a long-distance race," says Michael D'Alessandro, Head of Purchasing Excellence at TRUMPF. The market leader in turnkey solutions for machine tools and laser technology has now been working with the JAGGAER procurement platform for over 15 years.
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Big vision, implemented step by step
With the introduction of a procurement platform, TRUMPF aimed to manage all purchasing activities more efficiently, both operationally and strategically. The company also wanted to intensify collaboration with its suppliers. Describing the current status, Michael D'Alessandro explains: "For companies like ours, active internationally in the manufacturing sector, procurement plays an absolutely strategic role. TRUMPF now works with more than 5,000 suppliers worldwide and handles around 600,000 transactions a year in addition to all supplier management tasks. This generates an enormous volume of procurement data, which we are increasingly leveraging to create value with the help of JAGGAER."
TRUMPF approached the digitalization of its procurement in phases. Initially, the JAGGAER platform was used for supplier evaluations and complaints management. Further operational areas soon followed, including the entire order-to-pay process as well as sourcing for drawing-based manufacturing. Today, the necessary drawings and bills of materials are provided to suppliers automatically, thanks to an interface with the SAP system. This enables the procurement teams to contact more potential and existing suppliers in less time, increasing competition and cutting costs.
Today, TRUMPF handles around 80 percent of its global orders via JAGGAER. In addition to sending requests to suppliers, the source-to-pay platform also allows TRUMPF to track their responses. Two thirds of incoming digital order confirmations are processed automatically end-to-end. Advance Shipping Notices provide additional process reliability in supply chain collaboration. They indicate when the ordered goods are ready for dispatch at the supplier. Logistics, goods receipt, and production can therefore rely on deliveries arriving at the agreed time and can plan staffing accordingly. "With JAGGAER's Purchase Order Management and Invoicing, we have gained enormous transparency and speed across the entire process," confirms Michael D'Alessandro.
Suppliers and manufacturer deepen cooperation
The number of suppliers working with the procurement platform has steadily grown over the years. However, purchasing expert D'Alessandro admits: “Reaching today's high level of more than 5,000 connected suppliers took five to six years. That requires stamina. It makes no sense to try to force a system on suppliers." Patience and effort have paid off: "With JAGGAER, we have made our supplier relationships more transparent and achieved significant efficiency gains across regions and functions–from raw material purchasing through to logistics and transport. Overall, we have generated savings of 9.4 million euros," says D'Alessandro.
Next goal: Simplify compliance and strengthen ESG
Over the coming years, TRUMPF plans to use JAGGAER even more strategically in supplier relationship management. The goal is to efficiently deepen long-term relationships with suppliers while ensuring compliance. This applies to industry standards as well as regulatory requirements such as CBAM or EUDR as well as any future frameworks. TRUMPF is also relying on the procurement platform to achieve its own environmental, social, and governance (ESG) objectives. JAGGAER already provides the flexibility required to do this.
About TRUMPF
TRUMPF is a high-tech company offering manufacturing solutions in the fields of machine tools and laser technology. It drives digital connectivity in manufacturing through consulting, platform products and software. TRUMPF is one of the technology and market leaders in highly versatile machine tools for sheet metal processing and in the field of industrial lasers. In 2024/25, TRUMPF employed about 18,000 people and generated sales of 4.3 billion euros. With about 90 companies, the TRUMPF Group is represented in nearly every European country as well as in North America, South America and Asia. The company has production facilities in Germany, France, the United Kingdom, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, Poland, the Czech Republic, the United States, Mexico and China.
Find out more about TRUMPF at www.trumpf.com
About JAGGAER:.
JAGGAER is a global leader in enterprise procurement and supplier collaboration, and the catalyst for enhancing human decision-making to accelerate business outcomes. We help organizations to manage and automate complex processes while enabling their highly resilient, accountable, and integrated supplier base. Backed by 30 years of expertise, our proven AI-powered industry-specific solutions, services, and partnerships form JAGGAER One, serving direct and indirect, upstream, and downstream, in settings demanding an intelligent and comprehensive source-to-pay solution. Our 1,200 global employees are obsessed with helping customers create value, transform their businesses, and accelerate their journey to Autonomous Commerce. www.jaggaer.com
9.4 million in Savings: TRUMPF and JAGGAER report results. Source: Trumpf Group
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — The death toll from nationwide protests in Iran spiked Tuesday to at least 2,000 people killed, activists said, as Iranians made phone calls abroad for the first time in days after authorities severed communications during a crackdown.
This level of violence around protests hasn’t been seen in Iran in decades.
The U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency, which has been accurate in previous unrest in recent years, gave the latest toll. It relies on supporters in Iran cross-checking information.
The group said 1,847 of the dead over more than two weeks of protests were protesters and 135 were government-affiliated. Another nine children were killed, and nine civilians it said were not taking part in protests also were killed.
With the internet down in Iran, gauging the demonstrations from abroad has grown more difficult. The Associated Press has been unable to independently assess the toll. Iran’s government hasn’t offered overall casualty figures.
Iranians' calls gave a glimpse of life after being cut off from the outside world Thursday night.
Witnesses described a heavy security presence in central Tehran, burned-out government buildings, smashed ATMs and few passersby. Meanwhile, people remain concerned about what comes next, including the possibility of strikes after U.S. President Donald Trump said he could possibly use the military to defend peaceful protesters. Trump also has said Iran wants to negotiate with Washington.
“My customers talk about Trump’s reaction while wondering if he plans a military strike against the Islamic Republic,” said shopkeeper Mahmoud, who gave only his first name out of concerns for his safety. “I don’t expect Trump or any other foreign country cares about the interests of Iranians.”
Reza, a taxi driver who also gave just his first name, said protests remain on many people's minds. “People — particularly young ones — are hopeless but they talk about continuing the protests,” he said.
Several people in Tehran were able to call The Associated Press on Tuesday morning and speak to a journalist there. The AP bureau in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, was unable to call those numbers back. The witnesses said text messaging still was down and that internet users in Iran could connect to government-approved websites locally but nothing abroad.
Anti-riot police officers, wearing helmets and body armor, carried batons, shields, shotguns and tear gas launchers, according to the witnesses. Police stood watch at major intersections. Nearby, the witnesses saw members of the Revolutionary Guard's all-volunteer Basij force, who similarly carried firearms and batons. Security officials in plainclothes were visible in public spaces as well.
Several banks and government offices were burned during the unrest, they said. Banks struggled to complete transactions without the internet, the witnesses added.
However, shops were open, though there was little foot traffic in the capital. Tehran's Grand Bazaar, where the demonstrations began Dec. 28, was to open Tuesday. However, a witness described speaking to multiple shopkeepers who said the security forces ordered them to reopen no matter what. Iranian state media had not acknowledged that order.
The witnesses spoke on condition of anonymity for fear of reprisal.
It also appeared that security service personnel were searching for Starlink terminals as people in northern Tehran reported authorities raiding apartment buildings with satellite dishes. While satellite television dishes are illegal, many in the capital have them in their homes and officials broadly had given up on enforcing the law in recent years.
On the streets, people also could be seen challenging plainclothes security officials, who were stopping passersby at random.
State television also read a statement about mortuary and morgue services being free — a signal some likely charged high fees for the release of bodies amid the crackdown.
Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, in a statement carried by state TV, praised the tens of thousands who took part in pro-government demonstrations nationwide on Monday.
“This was a warning to American politicians to stop their deceit and not rely on traitorous mercenaries,” he said. “The Iranian nation is strong and powerful and aware of the enemy.”
State TV on Monday aired chants from the crowd, which appeared in the tens of thousands, of “Death to America!” and “Death to Israel!” Others cried out, “Death to the enemies of God!” Iran’s attorney general has warned that anyone taking part in protests will be considered an “enemy of God,” a death-penalty charge.
Iranian Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi, speaking to the Qatar-funded satellite news network Al Jazeera in an interview aired Monday night, said he continued to communicate with U.S. envoy Steve Witkoff.
The communication “continued before and after the protests and are still ongoing," Araghchi said. However, “Washington’s proposed ideas and threats against our country are incompatible.”
White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said Iran’s public rhetoric diverges from the private messaging the administration has received from Tehran in recent days.
“I think the president has an interest in exploring those messages,” Leavitt said. “However, with that said, the president has shown he’s unafraid to use military options if and when he deems necessary, and nobody knows that better than Iran.”
Trump announced Monday that countries doing business with Iran will face 25% tariffs from the United States. Trump announced the tariffs in a social media posting, saying they would be “effective immediately.”
Trump believes exacting tariffs can be a useful tool in prodding friends and foes on the global stage to bend to his will.
Brazil, China, Russia, Turkey and the United Arab Emirates are among economies that do business with Tehran.
Trump said Sunday that his administration was in talks to set up a meeting with Tehran, but cautioned that he may have to act first as reports of the death toll in Iran mount and the government continues to arrest protesters.
“I think they’re tired of being beat up by the United States,” Trump said. “Iran wants to negotiate.”
Iran, through the country’s parliamentary speaker, warned Sunday that the U.S. military and Israel would be “legitimate targets” if Washington uses force to protect demonstrators.
More than 10,700 people have been detained over the two weeks of protests, said the U.S.-based Human Rights Activists News Agency.
This frame grab from videos taken between Jan. 9 and Jan. 11, 2026, and circulating on social media purportedly shows images from a morgue with dozens of bodies and mourners after crackdown on the outskirts of Iran's capital, in Kahrizak, Tehran Province. (UGC via AP)
A picture of Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is set alight by protesters outside the Iranian Embassy in London, Monday, Jan. 12, 2026. (AP Photo/Alastair Grant)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media shows protesters dancing and cheering around a bonfire as they take to the streets despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world, in Tehran, Iran, Friday, Jan. 9, 2026.(UGC via AP)
In this frame grab from footage circulating on social media from Iran showed protesters once again taking to the streets of Tehran despite an intensifying crackdown as the Islamic Republic remains cut off from the rest of the world in Tehran, Iran, Saturday Jan. 10, 2026. (UGC via AP)
FILE - Protesters march on a bridge in Tehran, Iran, on Dec. 29, 2025. (Fars News Agency via AP, File)
