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Control Spend

Get Your Arms Around Spending with The Ketera Network

You need better ways to control and manage your spend. Ketera helps companies of all sizes with this broad challenge.  To see some of the specific things we do to help companies like yours, please select the relevant section below.

As a small organization, you face diverse cost pressures but have limited resources to identify and address them. Ketera can quickly help you get a handle on your spending to help you reduce your costs. You will find opportunities by using our procurement solution to address day-to-day  issues such as addressing inefficiencies and lack of control in the manual procurement process, ensuring budgets are not violated before purchase orders go out and allowing only approved products to be purchased at the best or contracted prices from permitted suppliers. You can also find that you can benefit significantly from deploying our sourcing solution to better handle RFIs and RFQs or implementing new techniques such as reverse auctions to reduce the cost of purchased products/services.

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Medium Enterprises face diverse cost pressures but have limited resources to identify and address them. Ketera can quickly and cost-effectively help you control your spending and alleviate such pressures. Using our sourcing solution, we help you adopt improved sourcing processes to better handle RFIs and RFQs or implement new sourcing models such as reverse auctions that reduce the cost of purchased products/services. With our contracts solution, you can improve your management of contracts so you can easily review supplier performance against contracts and ensure renewals don't slip through the cracks. And of course, there are almost always opportunities in procurement such as addressing inefficiencies and lack of control in the manual procurement process, ensuring budgets are not violated before purchase orders go out and allowing only approved products to be purchased at the best or contracted prices from permitted suppliers. Our procurement solution helps you address these eprocurement issues.

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As a large and organizationally complex enterprise, you need clear and detailed visibility into all your spend, so you can identify and operationalize specific cost reduction initiatives. Our spend analysis solution helps you provide such insights into your spend. You may also be looking to streamline sourcing processes (RFQ/RFP process) and implement new techniques such as reverse auctions to reduce the cost of purchased products/services. Our OnDemand sourcing solution enables you to address your sourcing requirements.

Many large organizations like yours need to address day-to-day procurement issues such as reducing maverick buying, improving the inefficiencies and lack of controls in the manual procurement process, ensuring budgets are not violated before purchase orders go out and allowing only approved products to be purchased at the best or contracted prices from permitted suppliers. Our OnDemand procurement solution is increasingly used by companies to tackle this problem. Even when you have an eProcurement system from another vendor, you may be challenged to increase the amount of spending under control by accelerating supplier on-boarding, keeping supplier catalogs current and hosting them.

Our supplier enablement solution is increasing used by companies to address this issue. Finally, you may also be challenged to gain visibility into all your contracts, so you can easily review supplier performance against contract and ensure renewals don't slips through the cracks. Our contracts solution helps you to meet this challenge.

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We selected the Ketera eRFX tool because it is quick to implement, cost effective and drives efficiencies into the sourcing process.  Its portal design streamlines the communication, document traffic and analysis associated with conducting our RFPs.  The entire Ketera package has allowed us to run more events with fewer resources, leading to increased procurement efficiencies. Michael Feeney Vice President, Corporate Procurement for U.S. Bank prev next

When using a hard copy or .pdf system to manage our contracts, Luminex would sometimes miss key milestones.With Ketera Contract management we now have full contract compliance and sufficient advanced warning to take the appropriate actions in a timely fashion.  The Ketera solution also has resulted in huge time savings for us; deciphering language in a contract used to take us hours, now it takes us minutes. David Mendoza Director, Strategic Planning and Business Development Group for Luminex prev next

We recognized an opportunity to enhance our purchasing process with state–of–the–art technology – without the up–front investment and ongoing resource commitment associated with the implementation of enterprise software. Mitch Plaat VP Contract Services for Con-way prev next

Ketera′s on demand solution is ahead of the competition – we will be able to implement the solution in weeks and we never have to worry about taking the system down to install upgrades or make changes. Steve Kenny Vice President Risk Management and General Services for Columbia Credit Union prev next

From the beginning, Ketera explained everything to us, both from the technical and sales side. They′ve accommodated our needs and have been very helpful and responsive. Michael Kapeles Senior Supply Manager for Cabot Microelectronics prev next

Not only does Ketera provide innovative solutions for spend management, they also offer high quality professional services that let you get the most from their solutions. Working with Ketera is like a breath of fresh air. Nick Walker Procurement Manager for BTP prev next

Ketera's new solution is really an amazing innovation that will revolutionize the purchasing industry. Dian Trosclair VP of Supply Chain Management for ServiceMaster prev next

Using Ketera, we've lowered our costs and improved our compliance with negotiated corporate contracts. By buying on contract, we typically see a ten percent reduction in cost. Jim Cebula Director of Global Purchasing for Kennametal prev next