Upcoming

Mar 25, 2010 - Epiphany Supply Chain Solutions has launched a potent new GPO on the Ketera Network for mid-market businesses that have long sought to take advantage of group purchasing leverage. The Epiphany Buying Portal is an online procurement site that provides pre-negotiated advantageous pricing for a selected group of categories to its GPO customers.

Learn how eProcurement and invoicing technology allow world-class online requisitioning, purchasing, and invoice reconciliation with preferred pricing from recognized industry-leading suppliers across categories such as janitorial and packaging supplies, green cleaning products, office supplies, computers and peripherals, and Maintenance Repair and Operations (MRO).

 

Previously Recorded

Feb 10, 2010 - Delivering bottom line results is the top priority of procurement and finance professionals, so focus on time to value is critical. In this webinar, you will learn how managing the procurement lifecycle on a network can deliver faster savings by providing real-time sourcing information and transparency, and enabling new trading partner relationships within an active, broad-based community.

Sourcing and procurement best practices have fundamentally changed through the advent of network based solutions that drive population-wide wide visibility and instantaneous access. 2010 holds the promise of an improving economy and the opportunity to leverage networks to free up working capital and deliver real-time bottom line savings. Learn how to make your procurement dollars work for you, and keep more of them.

Dec 10, 2009 - Far too many buying organizations have failed to actually recognize their potential (and expected) benefits from their Spend Management technology investments. Some of the root causes include: the inability to properly onboard enough participating suppliers, poor data and content quality for suppliers, or insufficient insight into spending trends. Do any of these sound familiar? Join our Webinar to help you envision a concrete action plan to remedy the situation in early 2010.

Nov 17, 2009 - You already know that eProcurement streamlines and automates your requisitioning, purchasing and receiving processes, but how do you maximize savings and ensure broad adoption? In this webinar presentation, you will learn about Con-way's best practices that they have implemented over the last 6 years.

Oct 15, 2009 - Most companies have a huge data quality problem with their inventory management systems, leading to excess inventory and false stock outs. In about 30 minutes, find out how leading companies are quickly addressing this issue and improving their bottom-line.

Sep 23, 2009 - In the past, many companies have enabled a small number of catalogs simply because it was too time consuming and resource intensive to enable a supplier. Today's technology enables buyers to take the opposite approach and enable large numbers of suppliers. Everything from the local sandwich shop to your major suppliers can now be enabled quickly and efficiently at a low cost. This step is essential to truly and purchasing systems.

Aug 20, 2009 - Ketera Network's sourcing application captures real time metrics for what is working well in the online buyer/supplier world. This best practices update will get you up to speed on what is working best in today's environment.



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

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

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 Platt VP Contract Services for Con-way

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

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

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

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

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