Emptoris Program Management

Improve Management Control and Accountability

• Establish a framework to manage and monitor all procurement programs including budget and savings programs.
• Leverage a single solution for gaining real-time program visibility, actively managing key program tasks and monitoring, measuring and tracking against goals and objectives.
• Assign procurement project tasks and track those tasks through to completion; link goals and tasks to specific sourcing events and contracts.

Drive Sustainable Savings and Reduce Risk

• Improve global coordination of savings and risk mitigation initiatives.
• Track and report on savings achieved by project or task, and automatically calculate annualized spend and savings.
• Gain visibility into and monitor specific issues and risks at the program, project, milestone or task level.
• Manage all savings and risk initiatives in one place with standard and customizable dashboards and reports.

Improve Productivity and Increase Capacity

• Provide a single, central workspace that improves communication and collaboration.
• Track and manage organizational resources at the program, project, milestone or task level.
• Automate standard tasks and provide alerts for exception handling, reducing the effort to manage programs and track results.
• Design business processes using a graphical modeler to improve workflow management.
• Establish a knowledge base of trusted data which can be mined for information and insights.

Ensure Compliance

• Establish a defined framework through which all procurement programs can be managed and monitored.
• Define processes and ensure compliance to corporate and regulatory standards.
• Manage the security access and limits on procurement programs and define specific user roles.
• Actively track and monitor issues and risks that impact programs and the broader organization.
• Automatically adjust tasks in reaction to various developments and risks and prevent programs or tasks with open issues from closing.