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Spend Management Pick
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- Ariba Procure-to-Pay |
| Vendor
- Ariba |
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Short Description
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| The Ariba
Procure-to-Pay - Basic and Professional Packages deliver rapid
cost savings by restricting maverick buying and increasing the
efficiency of the entire procurement cycle. Each solution delivers
an intuitive, self-service purchasing process with a walk-up
user interface that drives rapid stakeholder adoption across
the organization. |
| Ariba
Procure Download |
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| ePlus SmartStart
Description |
Spend+ VisualEngine is a new spend analytics tool which presents complex corporate spend data as easy-to-understand graphical maps designed to dramatically reduce analysis time for procurement managers. The software is available either as an installed or a hosted application, along with other Spend+ software modules and services for data collection, cleansing and analysis.
The visualization technology that drives the Spend+ VisualEngine application utilizes a paradigm that can depict over a dozen data dimensions on one screen in interactive color-coded boxes that reveal spending patterns, non-compliant spend, supplier performance metrics, savings opportunities, and other vital information at a glance.
This graphical representation of spend data makes it much easier to identify problems that are difficult, time-consuming and in some cases impossible to detect in tabular reports. With the Spend+ VisualEngine software:
Size, shape, color, and other visual cues are used to graphically illustrate factors such as the amount of off-contract spending in a category, the relative dollar volume spent with each supplier, or by each business unit. The largest exceptions based on client business rules float to the top of each map, making it easy to spot the most critical areas of concern.
Macro and micro views are presented simultaneously, enabling users to see as much or as little detail as desired, while maintaining a big-picture view of corporate spend. One box might list the total amount of packaging materials purchased, for example, while also showing all packaging SKUs for which less than 50% of orders were placed on contract.
Users can be presented with a dozen or more dimensions of data on each screen, compared to two or three with conventional business intelligence tools. This is achieved in part with mouseovers that dynamically display category and order line details on the same screen, eliminating the need to scour multiple reports to extract the information. Detailed information can be viewed by drilling down to associated layers of data. |
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