Ketera

Ketera Technologies provides spend management solutions as an 'on demand' service, providing companies with the technology and services needed to control and reduce corporate spending at a low cost of ownership. The Ketera difference is its 'on demand' services delivery model that includes the 'heavy lifting' services required for successful spend management, including supplier enablement, implementation and program management resources, software upgrade and maintenance, system administration and helpdesk support.

Ketera Technologies is an IBM business partner, providing technology for IBM’s Leveraged Procurement Service (LPS), an e-Business On Demand offering

Solutions offered by Ketera Technologies, Inc.

Spend Analysis Solution : A hosted, Web-based solution, Ketera Spend Analysis is an integral part of the Ketera Spend Management suite, enabling companies of all sizes to gain visibility and control into their spend. It provides complete, clear insight into a company's spending—breaking down spending by supplier and category, analyzing spending behavior across the organization, and identifying new opportunities for savings.companies can answer fundamental questions, such as "Who are our top suppliers?" and "What are our opportunities for savings?" The solution also enables companies to conduct a comprehensive analysis of their business spend as the first step in a spend management project, with the unique ability to accept multiple sources of input data.

Key features:
• Access comprehensive line-item reports by category, supplier, and divisions. Allow users to manipulate reports via drag-and-drop functionality.
• Automate the spend analysis process, by using inferencing technology that teaches itself how to make data normalization and categorization decisions.
• Use data-conversion tables, enabling spend categories to be mapped to standard categories such as UNSPSC, SIC or NAICS, or to company-specific categories.
• Access to a set of reference knowledge libraries provides a blueprint for the inferencing engine to make smarter spend decisions.

Sourcing Solution
Ketera Sourcing helps companies create requests for information (RFIs) and requests for proposals (RFPs), conduct sourcing events, and also do advanced bid analysis to find the best-suited supplier. Moreover, Ketera enables companies achieve these benefits at a much lower cost. With Ketera Sourcing, companies can reduce the unit price of goods and services that they procure, and also build a preferred supply base more quickly.

Key features:
• Easy-to-use wizards let you create sourcing events.
• Set up reverse auctions to achieve best unit prices.
• Create RFIs and RFPs easily by using template features.
• Use either numerical or written evaluations.
• Use autoscore features to evaluate supplier response.
• Get support for unlimited attachments of any format.
• Use advanced event features, such as real-time graphing, instant messaging and bid management.

Contract Management
Ketera Contract Management is a fast, easy and comprehensive solution for creating and analyzing contracts, as well as checking compliance. The solution tracks risk and costs at all stages of the contract lifecycle. Additionally, it enables organizations to create contracts with greater flexibility, as well as collaborate with internal and external participants on the content of contracts, thereby reducing the operational cost in the contract-creation process. Enterprise-wide visibility to contracts allows buyers not only to mitigate risks hidden in the contracts, but also to leverage this information in renewing existing contracts, or negotiating new contracts.

Key features:
• On-demand service model provides both the applications and services necessary for implementation within just days.
• Contracts reside in a centralized repository, easy to use search and reference capabilities; contract access is only visible to approved users. Existing contracts are imported or scanned and new contracts are created within the system.
• Contract authoring with integration to Microsoft word. On-line collaboration environment and configurable workflows.
• Automate contract lifecycle management with alerts, activity reports, and dashboard views.
• Integration with Microsoft Word simplifies end-user tasks. Online collaboration and custom workflows create a more productive environment.
• Alerts monitor existing contractual agreements for material changes to support timely disclosure requirements. Comprehensive contract change history provides easy audit trails for assessing adherence to internal controls (specifically, sections 302, 404, and 409 of Sarbanes-Oxley).
• Dashboards, templates, clause libraries and Microsoft Word red-lining streamline the contract management process. Ketera analyzes performance and monitors purchase price variances.

Procurement solution
Services Procurement- Lifecycle Management for the Mid to Enterprise Market by Ketera Technologies, Inc.
It enables companies to improve spend compliance and maximize savings by eliminating maverick, or off-contract spending. Moreover, the Ketera Procurement service decentralizes procurement practices while helping to maintain centralized control over preferred suppliers and negotiated prices.

Key Features:

• Ketera can interact with suppliers by CXML, EDI, e-mail, fax or Web browser.
• Employees can buy from a Ketera catalog, visit a supplier site, or auto-fax a supplier.
• Ketera offers comprehensive functionality, including end-user requisitioning, off-catalog ordering, and internal workflow approvals. It also includes the capability to "PunchOut" to individual supplier Web sites.
• Cutting-edge catalog search engine technology enables users to find products and services quickly, eliminating the need to call suppliers or browse through paper-based catalogs.
• Work with suppliers to gather, maintain and publish the suppliers' catalogs in the buyer's procurement environment.
• An open solution, Ketera allows for integration of transaction data to ERP systems, such as SAP, Oracle and PeopleSoft.
• Approve purchase orders via handheld devices.

Ketera Invoice Management
Ketera Invoice Management helps companies gain complete visibility and traceability into the entire order-to-pay workflow process to improve negotiation leverage via prompt payment; prevent overcharging and duplicate payments; filter out maverick spending; prevent regulatory backlash; and effectively manage cash flow. Ketera also delivers compelling value to suppliers, including real-time transaction visibility, no transaction fees, and the opportunity to get paid faster.

• Increase delivery accuracy.
• Online status tracking.
• Configurable invoice validation.
• Configurable 2way and 3way invoice matching with Purchase Orders and Goods Receipt.
• Incoming cXML and EDI invoices.
• Real-time invoice validation and matching.
• Automated approval workflow processes.

Ketera supplier connect
A hosted, Web-based supplier relationship management solution, Ketera Supplier Connect is an integral supplier management solution in Ketera's On Demand Spend Management suite, enabling companies that have deployed enterprise procurement applications such as Ariba, Peoplesoft, SAP and Oracle to quickly and easily maintain supplier catalogs

• Ease to use catalog interface.
• Enable hosted and "punch out" content.
• Advanced search engine.
• Catalog access and view restrictions.
• Attribute filtering.
• Enable product and price comparisons.
• Multi-language and currency capabilities.
• Catalog approval management.
• Maintain custom catalog views.

Partners

IBM Leveraged procurement solutions
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 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.

Aravo
Helping organizations address supplier enablement challenges, Ketera and Aravo partner to help companies control, automate, and optimize the entire supplier enablement process to achieve and maximize additional savings per year from their spend management systems.

Corporate United
Corporate United is a leading group purchasing organization that provides its members with an end-to-end solution for sourcing and managing contracts. From spend analysis, strategic sourcing expertise, and commodity knowledge to contract management and implementation services, Corporate United delivers all of the tools necessary for companies to effectively leverage buying power and drive bottom-line results.

Source One
Source One Management Services is a strategic reseller of Ketera solutions. Ketera has partnered with Source One to assist its clients in maximizing their return on investment and to provide contingency based strategic sourcing services.

Aptium Global, Inc.
Aptium Global works with small and medium sized manufacturing companies to save money on direct material purchases through a unique Lean Sourcing? approach. Smaller companies face the same cost pressures as the Fortune 500, yet often lack consulting budgets. Aptium Global works with organizations on a pay-as-you-save? basis, minimizing impact on cash flow and maximizing impact on the bottom line

Iasta
From fully managed reverse auctions to a best-in-class self-service application suite, Ketera and Iasta partner to deliver companies a cost effective strategic sourcing solution. Iasta's award-winning eRFx and workflow management toolbox prove that a robust yet user-friendly e-sourcing package can be affordable resulting in greater ROI.

OnDemand Resources
OnDemand Resources provides experienced professionals on a project basis to companies ranging from Fortune 500 to mid-market to small technology firms. Our focus is on operations and our projects address our clients' needs in the "Buy" and "Make" areas of business including strategic sourcing, supply chain management and lean manufacturing. By leveraging our resources, companies can increase their resource capacity and/or bring in new skills— when they need them and where they need them.

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