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Emptoris Education Overview
If you want to get up to speed quickly and ultimately master Emptoris to maximize the return on your investment, Emptoris education services offer the training to get you there. Our courseware provides the knowledge necessary for administrators and end-users—buyers and suppliers, for example—to learn the functionality of Emptoris and apply it to your business. The mission of our education services is to help you:
- Learn not just the solution functionality but also how to apply it in a
business context that suits your needs
- Master key concepts, tools, and skills to fully realize the benefits of
the solutions
- “Learn by doing” through engaging, interactive courses
Our courses leverage a combination of lectures, labs, case studies, reference manuals, and job aids. We have standard courses that can be tailored to your business needs and offer:
- Experienced trainers who bring an understanding of your business processes and tie real-world situations into the lessons to make them relevant
- On-site training at your location or via open enrollment at Emptoris’
corporate locations
- Flexible web-based and instructor-led delivery options
Class Offerings
Course |
Description |
Target Audience |
| Emptoris Buyer Training |
This 3-day lab-intensive course introduces first-time users to the tools and techniques to successfully create and manage sourcing events using Emptoris. Through a combination of lecture, hands-on exercises, and case studies, students will learn: project management, creating, monitoring, and scoring RFx events and auctions , supplier-side responses and bidding, analysis through optimization, and messaging, reporting, and exporting events.
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Users involved in the sourcing process |
Emptoris Sourcing Fundamentals |
This comprehensive 4-day course covers the topics in the Buyer Training course plus other administrative functionality, including: buyer and supplier organizations, catalogues, supplier profiles, and pre-configuration decisions.
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Implementation team members and Users involved in the sourcing process |
Sourcing Advanced Topics
Prerequisite: Buyer Training or Sourcing Fundamentals |
This 2-day course is designed to educate power users on advanced sourcing functionality and enable them to make more informed decisions. Through a combination of lectures, hands-on exercises, and case studies, students are taught: detailed use of bid form customization for complex bidding, detailed use of bid field formulas to calculate total cost, creation of scenarios using optimization to decide how to best allocate sourcing awards based on supplier pricing, non-pricing criteria, and corporate purchasing policies.
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Users who currently use Emptoris to run sourcing events and want to learn advanced functionality to maximize event results |
Emptoris Supplier Assessment |
This full-day session provides hands-on instruction on assessing suppliers using Emptoris. Topics include: initiating an assessment, monitoring supplier participation in an assessment, analyzing and reporting assessment findings. |
Buyers participating in a supplier qualification event |
| Emptoris Supplier Performance Management |
Through a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, this 2-day course trains users on how to view and manage the ongoing performance of their existing suppliers. Topics include: setup of performance metrics with associated attributes (including Key Performance Indicators (KPIs), scorecards, overall performance and feedback questions), how to utilize performance management information throughout the Sourcing solution, how to create a category-based feedback survey to collect qualitative feedback from users, monitor supplier performance through Overall Performance, Scorecard and KPI trend reports, and comparison among best and worst suppliers, analyzing key suppliers’ performance across categories and preferred metrics for more detailed analysis. |
Users involved in monitoring ongoing performance of suppliers |
| Emptoris Sourcing Upgrade |
Through a combination of lecture and hands-on exercises, this 1-day course trains users on the new features and functionality of Emptoris. |
Experienced Users migrating to the next new release |
| Emptoris Contract Management for the Core Team |
This intensive 2-day introduction explains how the Emptoris Contract Management application is used and administered. Topics include: features and functions of the system and how to navigate within the application, the contract lifecycle, how to create Business Term Variables (BTVs), clause templates, contract templates, and how to manage individual users, groups, and permissions. |
Implementation core team members |
| Emptoris Contract Management for Standard Users |
This 2-day course provides users with skills, knowledge and hands-on practice with the Emptoris Contact Management application. Topics include: features and functions of the systems and how to navigate within the application, the contract lifecycle including, how to use the central repository search functions and Folders feature to manage contracts. |
Users involved in Contract Management |
Emptoris Contract Management for Application Administrators |
This 1-day session provides Application Administrators with the skills needed to manage both contract elements and the user environment. Topics include: an overview of the administrative functions in the application, how to navigate within the administration environment, how to create Business Term Variables (BTVs) – tracking terms and language terms , clause templates and contract templates, how to set approvals for terms, clauses, and contract templates, how to set email event notifications, how to manage users/groups/permissions/external companies, and how to administer system settings. |
Contract Manage-ment Application Administrators |
| Emptoris Contract Management: Interview Wizard Design and Development |
This 1-day course provides ECM Application Administrators or “super users” with the skills and knowledge needed to create Interviews using the Wizard functionality. Topics include: Overview of features and functions of the ECM Interview Designer, the Interview design and development process, how to define Interview elements, how to design Interview steps and navigation, how to develop Interview steps within simple and complex Interviews (using expressions and conditions), and how to deliver, test and modify Interview Designs. |
Emptoris Application Administrators and “Super Users” |
| Emptoris Spend Analysis |
This 1/2-day course educates the user on the tools and techniques to successfully analyze spend using Emptoris. Students will learn the following: understanding the enterprise-wide spending profile, identify savings opportunities, track employee purchasing and contract compliance, identify areas for supply base rationalization. |
Users involved in the analysis of their organization’s spend |
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Course Offerings 
Buyer Training 
Advanced Functions and Optimization Workshop 
