Emptoris is pleased to announce this year's Emptoris Customer Awards Program. The Emptoris Awards provide our valued customers the ability to showcase their successes and innovations, to recognize the hard work of their teams, and to laud the organization’s achievements over the last year. This year’s winners will be announced and awarded at a special ceremony at Emptoris Empower, the global user conference being held from October 18 – 20, 2011 in historic Boston, Massachusetts.

5 Reasons to Participate

• Awareness: Share your successes internally and promote them throughout the organization. As budgets tighten, further endorsement and recognition of your successes can heighten attention on the value of your programs.
• Recognition: Be recognized by your peers at Emptoris Empower 2011 in historic Boston.
• Education: To share your stories with peers and advance best practices in supply and contract management.
• Award: Winners will receive a personalized, engraved award, presented to them at the conference. We will ship the award back to your organization after the conference, where you can show it off to your peers and colleagues.
• Vision: Emptoris will also be using insights and direction gleaned from the award nominations to help guide its future investment and development of its solution suite.

The Award Categories

Emptoris has created several award categories to allow our valued customers an opportunity to compete for recognition regardless of the size or scale of the organization. You have a passionate story to tell, we want to hear it!

• The Emptoris Sustainable Transformation Award is presented to a company that has demonstrated long term, sustainable savings and delivered strategic value to their organization through the application of an Emptoris solution or suite of solutions.
• The Emptoris Innovation Award is presented to a company that best exemplifies the use of Emptoris technology to drive “game changing” innovation and\or leverages best-in-class supply management capabilities.
• The Emptoris Rapid Time to Value Award is presented to a company that has successfully implemented a strategic spend, supply or contract management solution and demonstrated rapid success in driving cost savings and value to the broader organization.
• The Emptoris ROI Impact Award is presented to a company that has achieved a significant ROI leveraging Emptoris technologies and which has documented its results.  
• The Emptoris Sustainable Adoption Award recognizes the importance of adoption in driving value; the award is presented to a company that illustrates how its strategic plan drove greater solution adoption within its organization. 
• The Emptoris CEO Award is presented to an individual who has demonstrated leadership in elevating the profile and impact of procurement at his or her organization by implementing best-in-class spend, supply or contract management solutions and demonstrating a significant contribution to the success of their broader corporate organization.

The submission process has been designed to take 10-15 minutes of your time – and to garner your organization and your team the recognition it deserves.  All submissions should be completed and emailed no later than September 14, 2011. Please download and send your completed form to Dan Cahill at dcahill@emptoris.com. Feel free to use that address for any questions you may have.

We look forward to hearing your story...