High-Value,
Focused Consulting
Emptoris consulting services deliver high-value solutions using small teams with strong analytical and problem solving abilities, process discipline, and advanced communication skills. They focus on helping customers realize increased value from Emptoris. With an understanding that technology is only one part of a solution, they address additional success drivers that include strategy, process, organization, people, communications, monitoring, and change management. Moreover, they focus on knowledge transfer and partner with you to develop a structured, phased roadmap to self-sufficiency. Engagement timeline, scope, team, and objectives are tailored to meet your unique requirements and business objectives.
Client Business Objectives
- In-house expertise in supply and contract management practices, planning, and execution
- Rapid resolution of specific supply and contract management challenges
- Expert-driven commodity and sourcing strategies
How Emptoris Delivers
Expert Consultants
Emptoris consultants are business generalists with a focus on supply and contract management. They know that every business is different and, by design, take a consultative approach to client engagements—they first learn your business and then partner with you to advance it. While they leverage an internal knowledge base of best practices, they do not apply cookie-cutter approaches. Instead, they apply their experience and knowledge relevantly and contextually to develop the best solutions for your business.
Our consultants systematically leverage three sources of commodity expertise to be quick on the uptake as they engage unique client and commodity challenges.
- Knowledge Base: Emptoris maintains a cross-industry internal knowledge base of best practice, such as project plans, sourcing strategies, and supplier and market data
- Professional Team Expertise: Emptoris' professional consulting team brings together extensive domain experience and deep insight into cross-vertical, global sourcing best practices
- Research: Emptoris conducts primary and secondary research to augment its in-house knowledge whenever needed
Deep Understanding of Emptoris Solution
All our consultants are experienced with the functional application of the Emptoris solution. Moreover, they bring insight from working with numerous other customers and seeing firsthand the levers that drive greater success. With all the power and flexibility in the Emptoris solution, you can leverage their experience to identify the right approach for your business and quickly meet your goals.
Flexible, Scalable Consulting Model and Proven Methodologies
Emptoris consulting services can be flexibly tailored and scaled to meet your unique business requirements. Engagements can range from focused event management to overall program development that addresses multiple levers in your business that will drive success. In all cases, we bring proven methodologies—from our multi-phased sourcing process and opportunity assessment framework to our supplier assessment modeling—and best practices that can be adapted to your unique business requirements and objectives.
Service Offering
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| Sourcing Event Management |
Complete sourcing event management and support capabilities for all commodity categories. Full- and custom-service levels are available to accommodate your unique requirements. |
Opportunity Assessment |
Identification and prioritization of sourcing opportunities, leveraging spend data and other secondary inputs. This includes opportunity modeling, presentation and report development, opportunity prioritization assistance, and program planning. |
| Supply Management Program Design and Development |
Design and implementation of program work streams including: organization structure, standard processes, communication, monitoring, planning and forecasting, change management, and governance. These are based upon up-front objectives development and a supply management capabilities audit.
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Contract Process Integration and Compliance |
Design and implementation of standard processes, communication, monitoring, planning, change management, and governance to integrate contract management with other related processes such as sourcing and supplier performance management to support greater compliance. This is based on up-front objectives development and capabilities audit. |
| Process Education |
Customizable Emptoris supply management education programs for supply management organizations and their suppliers. Supply management courses include sourcing process best practices, negotiation strategies, sourcing analysis and decision making, reverse auction best practices, research fundamentals, and others.
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| Process Automation |
Implementation of specific process automation tools for high-value commodity categories and supply management activities. |
| Supplier Assessment Model Development |
Supplier assessment requirements gathering, assessment content development, software implementation and testing, documentation, and system rollout. |
Emptoris consulting services offer high-value, focused solutions. You can leverage their expertise and experience and that of our system integration partners to help your organization quickly and effectively meet your business objectives and maximize the return on your investment in Emptoris.
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