CASE STUDY
How Yondr Group Scaled Procurement Operations to Support Record-Breaking Growth
Team Canopy
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“Canopy is a critical partner for Yondr Group. Without the platform, we wouldn’t have a clear view of supplier compliance across our supply chain, which means we wouldn’t be able to grow as quickly. It’s that simple!”
Head of Procurement & Risk, Yondr
Introduction
When your business strategy revolves around being the fastest hyperscale data centre developer in the world, procurement can’t be a bottleneck. Every delayed supplier approval, every compliance gap, every manual process becomes a direct threat to your competitive advantage.
This case study explores how Yondr Group, the record-breaking hyperscale data centre developer, used scalable procurement solutions to transform their supplier management from a growth constraint into a strategic enabler during aggressive global expansion.
The Company
Yondr Group
- Leading hyperscale data centre developer, owner operator and service provider
- Record holder for fastest development of a hyperscale data centre
- 2x year-on-year growth in supply chain size
- Rapidly expanding into US, Canada, and Americas markets
Yondr Group’s competitive edge isn’t just technical, it’s operational speed. While competitors take months to bring data centres online, Yondr Group’s streamlined approach delivers facilities in record time.
But as demand exploded and expansion accelerated, their procurement operations needed to evolve to match the pace of business growth.
The Challenge
Yondr’s aggressive growth strategy was outpacing their procurement capabilities, creating bottlenecks that threatened to slow their market-leading development speed.
Procurement Becoming a Growth Bottleneck
With supply chain size doubling year-on-year, manual supplier vetting and approval processes couldn’t keep pace with project demands, forcing development teams to wait for procurement rather than the other way around.
Scaling Challenges Across New Markets
Each market expansion brought new suppliers, different compliance requirements, and fragmented data—but the procurement team needed to maintain consistent standards without slowing down approvals.
Limited Visibility Hampering Decision-Making
Leadership needed real-time insight into supplier capacity, performance, and compliance to make fast expansion decisions, but data was scattered across spreadsheets and local systems.
Resource Constraints on Rapid Growth
The procurement team couldn’t scale headcount as fast as business growth, meaning they needed systems and processes that could handle exponentially more suppliers without proportional increases in administrative overhead.
The fundamental issue: Yondr Group’s record-breaking development speed was being constrained by procurement operations that couldn’t scale at the same pace.
Yondr Group secures £732.9 million to finance Johor data centre – Techerati, Jan 25
The Solution
Canopy’s scalable procurement platform became the foundation for Yondr’s rapid expansion, enabling procurement operations to accelerate growth rather than constrain it.
The platform handles exponentially growing supplier volumes through automated workflows and approvals, allowing the procurement team to focus on strategy rather than administration while supporting 2x year-on-year growth.
Flexible compliance frameworks and region-specific workflows enable Yondr to enter new markets quickly while maintaining global standards, critical for their aggressive expansion timeline.
With 1,000+ data points per supplier automatically captured and maintained, leadership gains real-time visibility into supplier capacity, performance, and compliance to support fast expansion decisions.
Instead of waiting weeks for supplier approvals, streamlined onboarding and compliance processes mean procurement can move as fast as business development identifies opportunities.
The platform’s scalable architecture grows with the business, handling increasing supplier volumes and complexity without requiring additional headcount or system overhauls.
The Results
Within one year, Canopy transformed Yondr Group’s procurement from a scaling constraint into a strategic growth enabler:
“Our ability to quickly validate and onboard suppliers in new markets directly supports our record-breaking development pace. We can now say yes to opportunities we would have had to decline before.”
Head of Procurement & Risk, Yondr Group
Yondr Group secures planning approval for third data centre at London campus – Yondr, Aug 24
Summary
When speed defines your competitive advantage, every business function must be designed for rapid scaling. Traditional procurement approaches create bottlenecks that constrain growth potential.
With Canopy’s scalable procurement platform, Yondr achieved the holy grail of fast-growing businesses: operations that accelerate rather than constrain expansion. The result? Procurement capabilities that support their position as the world’s fastest hyperscale data centre developer while enabling even more ambitious growth targets.
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