ORA Developers has implemented a unified, digital procurement platform from JAGGAER across its international projects, aiming to streamline sourcing, improve supplier collaboration, and embed sustainability into its supply chain, reflecting a broader industry shift towards digital and ESG-conscious procurement practices.
ORA Developers has moved to digitalise and centralise procurement across its international portfolio by deploying a unified procurement solution from J...
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AGGAER, a step the developer says will streamline sourcing, strengthen supplier collaboration and improve visibility across its operations.
According to JAGGAER’s press release, the platform has been rolled out to support ORA’s growth in markets including Egypt, Cyprus, Greece, Grenada, the Caribbean, Pakistan, the UAE, Iraq and Tunisia. The vendor said the deployment standardises supplier performance evaluation on a single system so ORA can “identify and engage the highest-performing partners in each market, regardless of geography,” a capability JAGGAER says will help ensure consistent quality and access to premium materials across the developer’s residential, commercial and hospitality projects.
The implementation emphasises electronic tendering and audited workflows. JAGGAER said the sourcing and supplier-management modules bring “structured, audited and fully digital” bid management that can reconcile differing local regulatory requirements with central oversight, improving governance while preserving local autonomy. The company claims this will strengthen supply-chain resilience, speed project delivery and improve resource allocation.
ORA is also, according to the announcement, using the platform to move responsible sourcing upstream. JAGGAER’s supplier onboarding and performance tools allow suppliers to be assessed against sustainability and diversity criteria during onboarding and evaluation, which the vendor says supports clearer reporting on ESG-related procurement indicators and embeds sustainability into early project stages.
Industry context suggests ORA’s choice follows a broader procurement digitalisation trend. JAGGAER markets its JAGGAER ONE platform as a comprehensive spend-management architecture designed to cover “100% of business spend” with plug-and-play services for data management, integrations, workflows and analytics. The vendor argues such architectures reduce costs and maverick spend while improving transparency and control.
Previous client deployments cited by JAGGAER illustrate similar objectives. According to the company, Cosentino migrated procurement processes to JAGGAER to unify negotiations, supplier management and non-conformance handling, reporting improved visibility and a reduction in administrative burden. Dr. Oetker has likewise been named as a recent customer, selecting JAGGAER to replace legacy software and to standardise international purchasing processes, citing the supplier’s SAP integration capabilities and bid-evaluation support.
The supplier-management features JAGGAER highlights include a guided self-service onboarding portal, configurable compliance checks and dynamic dashboards and scorecards for data-driven performance assessments. JAGGAER said these functions are intended to reduce manual tasks and provide risk management to support resilient supply chains.
Troy Meyers, Chief Customer Officer at JAGGAER, is quoted in the announcement as saying: “ORA is creating a benchmark for how real estate and construction companies can use digital procurement to unlock efficiency, transparency and resilience at scale. Their approach demonstrates how a modern, data-driven procurement model can support business expansion while improving supplier collaboration and sustainability outcomes. We are proud to support ORA on this transformation.”
JAGGAER has recently signalled further investment in intelligence for its platform: the vendor announced the appointment of Gopinath “GP” Polavarapu as Chief Digital and AI Officer to lead an AI roadmap intended to embed automation and real-time decision support into JAGGAER ONE. JAGGAER said the AI work will target process automation and “Agentic AI” capabilities to accelerate outcomes for customers.
While ORA and JAGGAER describe clear commercial and ESG benefits, independent measures of the project’s impact on cost, delivery times and sustainability metrics were not disclosed in the announcement. Company statements frame procurement digitalisation as a strategic enabler for developers, but the net effects will depend on the rigour of supplier data, integration with project workflows and the governance applied across disparate jurisdictions.
For now, ORA’s deployment illustrates how property developers are treating procurement as a lever for quality control and sustainability as much as cost reduction, and how vendors such as JAGGAER are positioning unified, analytics-driven platforms, now increasingly coupled with AI roadmaps, as the backbone for that shift.
Source: Noah Wire Services
