Emptoris Suite V9
Achieving the Next Level of Performance
Organizations are struggling to maintain a competitive edge in an increasingly volatile, global economy. To succeed in this environment, improving performance is paramount. Streamlining your processes to maximize performance requires visibility and control of every area of your business—across your organization and around the globe.
Your organization needs a comprehensive set of capabilities that strengthen your ability to operate globally, generate savings on complex spend categories, mitigate a myriad of risks and manage compliance—as well as build a global supply base that consistently delivers and provides a competitive advantage.
Emptoris Suite V9—The Strategic Supply Management Platform
for the Future
Emptoris Suite V9 is the market’s only platform for strategic supply management that spans the global enterprise and connects disparate systems to provide complete visibility and control over spend, contracts, and supplier intelligence and processes. Emptoris Suite V9 empowers companies with powerful enterprise intelligence and program management capabilities—as well as a highly-intuitive interface designed to improve the user experience and drive increased adoption—to deliver maximum financial and operational impact.
The Value of Emptoris Suite V9
- Drive Sustainable Savings – Manage all spend categories and identify savings opportunities across your global operations. Actively enforce contract compliance to maximize revenue. Work with suppliers to maximize value, find new sources of revenue and boost existing ones. Optimize the use of working capital by reducing inventory.
- Enforce Compliance and Mitigate Risk – Centralize visibility, transparency and control across sourcing and contracting processes to ensure greater compliance with regulations and policies. Improve program visibility and accountability. Avoid supply disruptions and maintain your organization’s operations and brand image by closely managing and monitoring your suppliers.
- Improve Productivity – Streamline and automate business processes to increase efficiency and reduce workload. Provide actionable intelligence, not just data, to enable optimal performance and decision making.
Key Features and Capabilities of Emptoris Suite V9
The Emptoris Suite V9 provides capabilities to support the end-to-end business processes associated with strategic supply management:
Source to Contract
Maximize and lock in savings with advanced sourcing and enterprise contract management capabilities:
- Emptoris Sourcing – Create sourcing events quickly, get spend categories under control and increase the amount of spend being competitively sourced.
- Emptoris Contract Management – Create stronger contracts using standard, repeatable processes to ensure compliance with appropriate regulations. Tightly integrate with your ERP environment to enforce contract terms and block off-contract purchases.
Business and Procurement Intelligence
Gain global, enterprise-wide visibility into spending and suppliers to drive operational and supplier performance improvement:
- Emptoris Supplier Lifecycle Management – Reduce the cost of doing business by guiding business to preferred suppliers and building a robust supplier development and innovation environment.
- Emptoris Spend Analysis – Consolidate and intelligently classify spend data across global operations and systems, allowing you to analyze and drill down on spend by category, business unit or geography.
Category Spend Management and Compliance
Manage complex spend categories and ensure compliance of service providers and outsourced workers:
- Rivermine Telecom Expense Management – Maximize savings by reducing telecom billing errors, fraudulent charges and unnecessary services. Optimize plans and services, proactively manage corporate mobile devices and gain visibility into your telecom inventory.
- Emptoris Services Procurement – Improve the procurement, compliance and monitoring of service providers and contingent labor to ensure services are being delivered on schedule and on budget.
Gateway: Program Management and Reporting
Powerful, cross-suite program management and reporting capabilities to improve productivity, actively drive and monitor programs, and measure and report on results:
- Emptoris Program Management – Manage the full lifecycle of procurement and savings initiatives across the global organization. Program Management offers greater control, governance and guidance of programs with a single solution with cross-suite dashboards, task management and tracking, workflows and reporting.
- Emptoris Suite Reporting – Enhance visibility and intelligence across spend, sourcing events, contracts and suppliers with comprehensive Emptoris Suite Reporting and Executive 360° Reporting capabilities based on the industry-standard BusinessObjects®solution.
A global master repository for supplier information and flexible supplier discovery capabilities that allow the enterprise to integrate with preferred third-party content providers. This solution, which complements any Master Data Management (MDM) system, provides the ability to easily aggregate, maintain and manage suppliers and supplier data and intelligence—eliminating confusion, inconsistency and errors and ensuring informed decisions on the supplier base.
Global, Mobile Capabilities
Emptoris Suite V9 provides solution and reporting capabilities available on the Apple iPad® and a wide array of mobile devices, to support highly global and mobile teams. Emptoris Suite V9 also supports all major Internet browsers including Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari with no browser plug-ins required.
Emptoris Suite V9 solutions and customer support are available in more than sixteen global languages including Chinese/Mandarin, German, Japanese, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish.
Improve Your Company’s Bottom-Line with the Emptoris Suite
Call 855-391-2561—or contact us to learn how the Emptoris Suite V9 can improve the efficiency and productivity of your company.