Procurement

Procurement focuses on those business pressures that are driving companies to improve the effectiveness of their procurement operations to achieve better advantaged pricing, greater efficiency, tighter control of spending and improved service levels.

This service area leverages IBM's strength and experience in procurement to enable our clients to better manage their enterprise spend.

Our supply chain management services comprise a full range of procurement offerings, including:

• Procurement strategy and opportunity assessment
  Centered around strategic sourcing and the associated enablers such as spend analysis, process re-design and governance and compliance. We deliver assignments focused on:
  • Procurement strategy
  • Opportunity assessment
  • Accelerated sourcing
  • Process reengineering
  • Strategic sourcing
  • Supplier relationship management
• Strategic sourcing
  Analysis and prioritization of key commodities for:
  • Aggregation of spend and contract leverage to identify optimal spend leverage
  • Implementation of governance and controls to realize the identified savings.
• Application implementation
  For e-procurement and ROI / benefits realization:
  • Package selection
  • Software integration
  • Content management
  • Supplier enablement
  We are an integration partner for Ariba, SAP, Oracle, i2 and Perfect Commerce.
• Managed solutions
  
  • Procurement business transformation outsourcing (BTO)
  • Leveraged procurement services (bundled services and technology)
  • Hosting and application management services
• IBM Leveraged Procurement Services
  IBM Leveraged Procurement Services is part of an important category of services which offers the delivery of standardized business processes, applications and infrastructure over the network via an e-business on demand environment. IBM Leveraged Procurement Services is designed to provide an affordable solution with low risk and minimal investment for managing indirect spend. This offering combines best-of-class:
  • Process
  • Hardware
  • Software
  • Integration and hosting services
  • Advantaged pricing from pre-established supplier relationships
  • Financing
  into a single end-to-end package that is scalable and customizable. Ketera Technologies and SAP provide the engines for our leveraged procurement services offerings.

Key procurement software vendors include Ariba, Perfect Commerce and SAP.