How Northwestern Mutual uses Zip
18%
“We estimate we've saved up to 18% over the last year”
As published on zip.com. Captured by usedby on Oct 8, 2026.
What happened
Northwestern Mutual uses Zip as a single intake portal for procurement requests, routing them through privacy, security, and third-party risk review. It later extended Zip to cover procure-to-pay, replacing Coupa and connecting requests, vendor agreements, POs, and invoices in one workflow.
Summary written by usedby from the source page, in English. The figures are those of Zip and Northwestern Mutual, not ours.
- 20%“increased our spend under management by as much as 20%”
"There's one front door," Kee says. "All those one-off requests are captured and sent through the right processes. We estimate we've saved up to 18% over the last year and increased our spend under management by as much as 20%."
Senior leaders can finally have procurement conversations with a strong level of confidence.
With Zip, we can fully attest that everything is going through the appropriate privacy, security, third-party risk assessment process. And we can answer questions with more data than we’ve ever had before.
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- The figure: 18%CheckedPrinted word for word on the page, near the name of Northwestern Mutual.
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