Solution Overviews

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Solution Overviews


Small and medium-sized companies are looking to reduce the time and complexity associated with finding the right suppliers, purchasing indirect goods and reconciling invoices. The Ketera Network uniquely binds spend management software solutions (sourcing, contract management, procurement and invoicing) with the buyer-supplier ecosystem in a seamless manner to provide a better way to procure.

Ketera Spend Analysis is a solution that helps customers access, organize and analyze spend data. It uses patent pending technology for automated cleansing and classification of spend data and offers a variety of analytical and reporting tools to provide insight into the processed spend data. The derived information enables companies to gain visibility and intelligence over spend, increase negotiating leverage, rationalize supply base and increase spend under management.

Ketera Inventory Data Cleansing is a service offering that helps you reduce costs from duplicate and obsolete inventory, minimize errors in buying and using replacement parts, and improve standards for inventory management. You can’t stop adding more parts and suppliers to your ERP and procurement systems, but you can remove duplicates, validate and categorize items, and normalize and enrich records.

Ketera Sourcing is an automated web based tool designed to help organizations manage the entire end-to-end sourcing process such as Requests for Information, Proposals or Quotations (RFI, RFP or RFQ) and reverse auctions. It allows you to create and manage events for sourcing initiatives using easy to use and streamlined processes that enable you to reach out to large number of suppliers. Ketera Sourcing helps you to discover the right suppliers with the best prices for goods and services to be procured enabling organizations to reduce spend and add to bottom line profits.

Ketera Contract Management is an on-demand, web based solution that allows you to search and manage contracts based on key business requirements. It enables you to create contracts and store them in a single electronic repository so you can manage all aspects of the contract life cycle with ease. It supports early warnings for contract expiration or renewal, standardization of contract templates and clauses, and approval workflows and audit tracking across organizations to facilitate easy creation and effective management of contracts.

Ketera Network Procurement for the Enterprise automates the entire procurement process to remove dependence on manual and paper based systems. It enables employees to quickly search and compare product prices between multiple suppliers, create requisitions, order electronically and obtain approvals for their requisitions. It is designed to be intuitive and provides the user a familiar web shopping experience, resulting in rapid user adoption and increased spend compliance.

Ketera Network Procurement for Small and Medium Businesses automates the entire procurement process to remove dependence on manual and paper based systems. It enables employees to quickly search and compare product prices between multiple suppliers, create requisitions, order electronically and obtain approvals for their requisitions. It is designed to be intuitive and provides the user a familiar web shopping experience, resulting in rapid user adoption and increased spend compliance.

Ketera's Invoice Management solution is an automated system used to receive invoices electronically and automatically match them against associated POs and goods receipts. It streamlines the invoice presentment and payment process and makes them transparent by providing increased visibility into the procure-to-pay cycle. It enables accurate and regular payments to suppliers, resulting in improved supplier relations.



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