Program Management

To achieve target savings and business objectives, procurement and sourcing executives must manage and monitor the progress of a wide range of programs and category initiatives—all across disperse global teams, suppliers and systems. Managing these programs requires significant effort and poses many challenges, all of which places significant constraints on the organization and limits the number of programs under management. In addition, lack of adequate and timely information on program results can significantly limit management’s ability to justify strategic programs and maintain stakeholder support.

The Program Management Solution, a component of Emptoris Suite V9, allows organizations to:

• Improve Management Control and Accountability – Provides a framework through which all procurement programs can be managed, including budget and savings programs.
• Drive Sustainable Savings and Reduce Risk – Improves global coordination of procurement activities and the allocation of resources.
• Improve Productivity and Increase Organization Capacity – Provides a central, configurable workspace that simplifies communication, with tools that automate standard tasks and provide alerts for exceptions.
• Ensure Compliance – Guides users to follow pre-defined processes and data collection guidelines compliant with corporate rules.

A Comprehensive Program Management Solution

Emptoris Program Management provides a single solution for gaining real-time program visibility, actively managing key program tasks, and capabilities to proactively monitor, measure and track goals and objectives. The solution includes capabilities for:

• Task Management – Assigns procurement project tasks and tracking by task or milestone to completion, as well as capabilities to link tasks to related sourcing events and contracts.
• Project Management – Establishes, manages and tracks procurement initiatives across a wide variety of tasks and projects.
• Savings Tracking – Tracks and reports on savings achieved by project or task, automatically calculating annualized spend and savings.
• Issue Tracking – Tracks issues and risks at the program, project, milestone or task level.
• Dashboards and Reports – Manages all initiatives in one place with user defined dashboards and reports.
• Resource Management – Tracks organizational resources at the program, project, milestone or task level.
• Form Creation – Creates forms with configurable field types using the WYSIWYG editor or predefined template.
• Workflow Management – Designs business workflows using a graphical modeler.
• Security – Role-based security limits program, project, milestone and task visibility to specific user roles.

Improve Your Organization’s Productivity and Program Management with Emptoris