The Emptoris Strategic Sourcing Offering

Overview

The Emptoris On Ramp

Spend Analysis

Sourcing

Best Value

Broad Coverage

Efficiency

Global Capability

Product Offering

Sourcing Event Services

Customer Success

Contract Management

Supplier Performance

Compliance

Program Management

	The Emptoris Sourcing Offering

Emptoris Sourcing is a robust software solution that may be deployed quickly and flexibly to meet your unique requirements. At its foundation, Emptoris Sourcing is supported by program management and knowledge sharing capabilities that are integral to the Program Management Solution. On that solid foundation builds the Dynamic RFx module which streamlines and automates the sourcing process. Buyer Decision Support and Supplier Decision Support then empower enterprises to better collaborate with their suppliers and realize best value. The Emptoris Sourcing Solution

Buyer Decision Support

The optimization-based Buyer Decision Support module empower buyers to make the right business decisions and realize best value from their supply base.

Capabilities

Benefits

Build confidence in sourcing decisions

Decrease bid analysis time by up to 95%

Enable enterprise-wide visibility into supplier cost structures

Enforce compliance with corporate purchasing policies and contractual obligations

Negotiate for lowest total cost

Enforce corporate purchasing policies (e.g., budgetary limits, contractual obligations, and vendor count or capacity allocation limits)

Quickly create and modify “what if” scenarios with easy-to-use templates and wizards

Evaluate real-time sourcing trade-offs (e.g., what is the opportunity cost of sourcing from two vendors to hedge supply base risk)

Incorporate advanced supplier pricing schedules (e.g., bundled pricing, unit volume discounts, and business volume discounts)

Determine the total cost impact of non-price factors (e.g., quality, delivery, and reliability)

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Supplier Decision Support

The supplier decision support module extends the optimization-based decision support capabilities to suppliers by empowering them with recommendations to improve their bid and win more business.

Capabilities

Benefits

Empower suppliers to bid more competitively

Further reduce total costs

Develop more collaborative supplier relationships that move beyond a singular focus on price

Empower suppliers with optimization-based bid recommendations that reflect the buyer’s total cost model

Automate the provision of bid feedback to suppliers

Expose suppliers to more specific bid recommendations than those available through traditional reverse auctions

Provide suppliers multiple levers, beyond just price, on which to be competitive

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Multi-stage Negotiation

Multi-stage Negotiation includes all the features and functionality to manage and execute multi-stage negotiations efficiently and effectively.

Capabilities

Benefits

Realize sustainable incremental annual savings of 7-12% on categories repeatedly sourced year after year

Bring a larger percentage of spend under management for greater savings

Reduce sourcing cycle time

Progress from traditional buy/sell transactions to reciprocal collaborative relationships with your suppliers by stepping away from a singular focus on price in your online negotiations

Lower total cost of ownership, improve product quality, and accelerate time-to-market via supplier collaboration

Increase price transparency across your supply base to heighten competition

Supplier Performance Management Visibility

Drive competition for best value through optimized auctions

Expanded Multi Round Negotiations

Flexible Awarding and optimization of residual awards

Roll-up Reporting

Global commerce and program capabilities

Automate the entire sourcing process whether for a single RFx, reverse auction, or a complex multi-stage negotiation

Easily build multi-line proposals and quotes with flexible forms, templates, wizards, and consistent workflows to establish repeatable best practices

Collect qualitative and quantitative supplier bid data, such as specification, warranty, delivery date tolerances, and financing preferences

Calculate total cost formulas and auto-score responses

Give suppliers the flexibility to discount bids with flexible pricing schedules

Easily monitor time-sensitive auction information including bid rank, bid history, current winning bid, next allowable bid, time remaining, and relevant messages within reverse auction dashboard

View supplier scorecards to easily factor supplier performance into purchase decisions

Model real world business constraints to achieve actionable and implementable results

Exercise greater control of supplier selection during events

Exercise flexibility in awarding to override pricing or re-run scenarios at later date to support changes in market conditions / supplier performance

Leverage top line reporting for program and savings tracking to gain visibility and obtain executive buy-in

Remain globally competitive with multi-currency bidding in auctions, simultaneous bidding in all currencies and real-time currency conversion

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Emptoris also offers Sourcing Event Services to help your team overcome both tactical and strategic challenges to realizing even greater value from your sourcing program.

Learn More

Sign up now for the webcast Overcoming Common Challenges to Low Cost Country Sourcing, sponsored by Supply & Demand Chain Executive Magazine, hear speakers from Accenture and Emptoris share research, case studies, and first-hand experience on how companies can deliver on the promise of low-cost country sourcing.

Sign up now for the ISM webcast Practical Approaches to Sourcing for Best Value, Not Just Best Price featuring speakersfrom Cargill and Emptoris.

Download the whitepaper Moving Beyond Reverse Auctions for Scalable, Sustainable Value - Learn how companies are stepping up from a "one size fits all" approach with reverse auctions and are now leveraging more advanced solutions to better support their sourcing strategies.

Find out how the Emptoris solution fared in the Forrester evaluation The Forrester Wave™: eSourcing Suites, Q4 2005.

Emptoris customers have delivered substantial value to their businesses with Emptoris Sourcing. Read about real world examples of how our customers have deployed Emtporis Sourcing to achieve shortened cycle times, better cost performance and greater competitive advantage.

The Emptoris Sourcing Offering

Buyer Decision Support

Supplier Decision Support

Multi-stage Negotiation

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