Deliver Procurement Value Beyond Savings.

Achieve automation and greater visibility.

Smart Procurement

Deliver procurement value using a consulting-driven approach to enable process automation, strategic sourcing, spend optimization, supplier diversification, real-time collaboration and contract governance.

Challenges

Key Challenges Reported by Procurement Leaders

65

No Visibility Beyond Tier 1 Suppliers

55

Lack Insight into Supplier Performance

49

Do Not Have Adequate Internal Talent

48

Underutilizing Digital Technologies

48

Think Current Value Measures are Irrelevant

Offerings

Smart procurement drives procurement excellence in the core tenets of people, process and technology by working with senior business leadership to develop a strategy that is holistic in its vision and approach, thus creating a connected technology ecosystem that drives automation, delivers timely and relevant insights, optimizes costs, and enhances supplier relationships.

Management Consulting

  • Procurement Strategy and CPO Advisory
  • Spend Assessment and Strategic Sourcing
  • Category Strategy and Management
  • Enterprise Cost Takeout and Value Engineering
  • Supplier Risk and Diversity Management
  • P2P Needs Assessment and Tool Selection
  • Change Management
  • Interim Roles and Staff Augmentation
  • M&A Operational Integration

BPO / PaaS

  • Business Process Outsourcing (BPO)
  • Procurement as a Service (PaaS)
  • Procurement Process Assessment
  • Process Digitalization and Optimization
  • Support for End Users and Suppliers

Digital Systems

  • Digital Supplier Network
  • Supplier Management
  • Strategic Sourcing
  • Contract Governance
  • Invoice Management
  • Supply Chain Collaboration
  • Transactional Data Digitization
  • Cognitive Automation
  • ERP Integrations

Analytics & Insights

  • Procurement Diagnostics
  • Process and Spend Optimization
  • Spend Analytics
  • AI-Guided Buying
  • Supplier Risk Management
  • Commodities Risk Management
  • Fraud Detection

Benefits

Our Smart Procurement Solutions Drive Measurable Business Value

100

Visibility into Spend

80

Faster Supplier Onboarding

65

Increase in Automation

60

Reduction in P2P Cycle Time

20

Procurement Cost Savings

Accelerators

Through our proprietary, customized accelerators, we empower enterprises to leverage cutting-edge technologies to sense risk, digitize transactions, improve supplier collaboration and accelerate technology deployments.

SENSE.AI
Early warning system assesses potential opportunities and risks, evaluates impacts, and enables a timely response.
  • Warnings for weather, regulatory changes, sanctions, tariffs, etc.
  • Delay predictions and value-at-risk estimations for shipments.
  • Benchmarking and scenario analysis from 100,000+ events.
DOC.AI
Extract information from unstructured transactional documents using OCR and reduce manual work ten-fold.
  • Automatically extract key data fields with OCR/AI algorithms.
  • Quick document handling with higher degree of data accuracy.
  • Transfer extracted data into digital systems and workflows.
PROCURE.AI
Leverage real-time market intelligence and forecasting recommendations to support procurement decisions.
  • Commodity pricing (current and forecast) and market events.
  • Supplier contracts impacted by events and pricing fluctuations.
  • Key supply/demand locations and export/import countries.
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COLLAB-LITE
Collaborate with suppliers to track POs, improve forecast accuracy, and rapidly identify and respond to disruption.
  • Intuitive collaboration portal.
  • Real-time communication.
  • Rapid requirement gathering.
  • Accurate supplier commits.
  • Material and shipment tracking.
SPEND NOW
Decision support tool provides KPI-driven spend management and procurement intelligence via customized dashboards.
  • Intuitive dashboards.
  • Spend visibility.
  • Descriptive analytics.
  • Predictive analytics.
  • Minimum 3% savings.
ARIBA NOW
Packaged solution for SAP Ariba accelerates deployments, drives predictable outcomes and maximizes business value.
  • Standard configurations and ERP integration interfaces.
  • Best practice templates and industry-specific process maps.
  • Customized training materials.

Partners

Stay ahead of the curve and gain added value by tapping into our strong partner ecosystem and integration engineering expertise.

Insights & Resources

Explore these resources to learn more about our smart procurement solutions.

Blog

How GenAI is Revolutionizing Sourcing and Procurement

Leveraging GenAI in your procurement function can drive process automation, enhanced supplier collaboration, cost reduction and better decision-making.

Videos

Spend Analytics – Gain Insights and Discover Hidden Savings

Our spend analytics solution provides procurement managers with the ability to derive meaningful and ready-made business insights from spend data.

White Papers

6 Critical Focus Areas for Procurement Success

Drawing from our extensive experience working with a range of organizations, we have identified six critical focus areas for procurement to achieve success.

Videos

Ensure Procurement Success in 2023 with these 3 Strategies

Optimize costs, secure supply, digitize and automate processes. This broadcast delivers real-world insights that you can apply to your procurement ops now.

Blog

Spend Analytics – There’s a Better Way

Gone are the days of manual spend data extraction and analysis. Procurement leaders must arm buyers with insights that enable timely, informed decisions.

Case Studies

Leading Edtech Company Boosts Win Rates in Key US School Districts by 40%

New software architecture roadmap and cloud-native solutions helped an edtech company redefine their user experience by solving data and platform problems.

Case Studies

Data Warehousing and Spend Optimization Position Auto Manufacturer to Save Millions

Data consolidation and enrichment and new dashboards are enabling predictive analytics and arming the company with unprecedented visibility into spend.

White Papers

Buddy Buyer Services – Drive Rapid User Adoption

Through eSourcing-as-a-Service, users can get the support they need to rapidly adapt to their new procurement system and achieve operational excellence.

Case Studies

AI-Powered Spend Analytics Software Helps Manufacturing Company Identify $55 Million in Noncompliant Purchase Orders

Manufacturing company leverages spend analytics to enable the tracking, monitoring and analyzing of spend data – and improve visibility on a global scale.

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