Global companies face an exceptionally complex economic and operational environment that presents significant challenges, from managing global growth to sustainably reducing costs, from enforcing compliance to mitigating increasing volatility and risk.

Procurement organizations play a critical role in managing these challenges – and in achieving critical corporate objectives. Yet, Procurement organizations are challenged themselves with managing an increasingly global supply base, optimizing complex processes and making sense of data scattered across disparate systems.

IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management helps companies meet these challenges with a suite of solutions that connect disparate systems and teams to provide complete visibility and control over spend, contracts, service providers and supplier intelligence and processes.

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Provides complete management, visibility and control over procurement, sourcing, contracts, and supplier processes to maximize financial performance and optimize commercial risk.

IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management is a flexible suite of solutions that provide organizations greater visibility and control over global spending, contracts and suppliers, as well as related intelligence and processes.

The suite includes solutions for sourcing, contract management; spend analysis, supplier lifecycle management, services procurement and telecom expense management, which can be deployed individually or as a single cohesive platform.

IBM Emptoris solutions help companies drive improved performance, capture sustainable cost savings, mitigate varied risks, improve compliance and directly impact the bottom-line.

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  Enterprise and Category Spend Management

  Analyze enterprise spend across systems and effectively source and manage complex categories.

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  Supplier Management Risk and Compliance

  Effectively manage supplier information, relationships and processes to ensure compliance and mitigate risk.

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  Source to Contract

  Maximize and lock in savings with advanced sourcing and enterprise contract management capabilities.

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  Sales Contracts

  Effectively manage sales contracts throughout the contract lifecycle to reduce time to close.

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Enterprise and category spend management

Source to contract

Supplier management risk and compliance