Global Rollout in Weeks
Reduction in manual procurement workload
The people are knocking on our doors and eagerly waiting to use Lio. Showing us that we picked the right solution.
Lisa Madynski
Global Procurement Indirect Excellence, BASF Coatings / Surventis
The Company
You probably passed Surventis’ work on the street today. Roughly one in four cars worldwide is finished with coatings from the business formerly known as BASF Coatings.
In July 2026, the coatings division was carved out of BASF and relaunched as Surventis in a €7.7B transaction. Backed by Carlyle and the Qatar Investment Authority, with BASF retaining a 40% stake, Surventis became one of the world’s major standalone automotive coatings players almost overnight and they picked Lio as their Partner to transform their entire Procurement funciton.
The Challenge
The carve out created a rare opportunity to rethink procurement instead of simply carrying old processes into the new company. Procurement still ran across several systems, with breaks between intake, sourcing, negotiation and ordering. Material data was another major pain point. For Employees it was extremely painful to find existing materials, leading to a database full of duplicate part numbers and unnecessary sourcing processes. At the same time, tailspend sourcing remained completely unstructured, there was never multiple bids, many suppliers where chosen outside existing agreements and created compliance risk and monitoring price changes was really hard. Surventis didnt need another Tool, they needed a Partner to bring it all together
With Lio
Surventis is not simply carrying old procurement processes into a new company. Together with Lio, the team is using the carve out as a chance to build the procurement setup they actually want going forward.
Lio Agents autonomously validate PRs before they reach SAP, source and negotiate tail spend, process order confirmations and onboard suppliers. Every Agent is completely tailored to their processes instead of training a new team that had to be hired first.
Guided Buying is now the only entry point. A requester describes what they need. Lio determines the right channel, applies the right policy and produces a requisition that SAP can process.
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