Proactive Management

Poorly performing suppliers directly impact a company’s overall performance in all too important areas such as cost, product quality, and market competitiveness. Ensuring supplier performance and driving continuous supplier improvement is critical to minimizing supplier risk. By proactively tracking supplier performance metrics, organizations can identify supplier trends early to alleviate risks and resort to contingency plans when necessary.

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• Monitor Trends vs. Goals to Stay on Track
• Proactively Address Problems Before They Negatively Impact Business
• Improve Supplier Collaboration
• Ensure Success of Supplier Development Programs

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The Emptoris Supplier Performance Management solution enables companies to proactively manage supplier performance with key capabilities, including:

• Project Management: Proactively manage projects to aid in the development of suppliers.
• Performance Alerts: Notify businesses when suppliers are operating outside pre-established tolerances to proactively address the situation.
• Scorecards and KPIs: View supplier progress in real-time or over any period, and allow companies to compare the performance of suppliers to those of their peers.
• Reporting: Monitor trends versus goals to ensure success of supplier development programs.

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Customer Success with Emptoris Supplier Performance Management Solutions.

Global 2000 companies spanning multiple industries trust Emptoris to realize the best value from their supply base and accelerate profitable growth and competitive advantage. Read about customer success to learn more about the benefits of Emptoris Solutions.

• Con-Way Realizes $35M Over 3 Years | Webcast
• Heinz Saves $18M First 6 Months | Heinz Optimized Sourcing
• GlaxoSmithKline Uses Sourcing Optimization to Add Billions to the Bottom Line | CPO Agenda: Beyond Reverse Auctions
• Motorola Re-Invents Supplier Negotiation Process and Saves $600M

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The Emptoris Supplier Performance Resource Library

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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, Q1 2009.

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.