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Aug 25, 2010 - Merger and Acquisitions are often an unplanned burden for Accounts Payable. This period of transition can introduce new types of operational and compliance risk, but it can also be an opportunity to elevate capabilities to the next level. What is the “day one” check list to ensure your organizational leadership, key stakeholders and AP team members are aware of what is required for a smooth transition? What are common methods to evaluate redundant AP operations? What are the best options for redundant AP staff to be offered for long term career opportunities? Are there common improvements that can made during M&A integrations? These questions and many more will be discussed by our panel of experts. Please join us for this exciting virtual round table.

 

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Jul 21, 2010 - Today's Procure to Pay (P2P) operations are being pressured like never before to drive down operational costs, reduce staffing, increase controls and identify and realize savings opportunities. Like never before AP, Finance and Procurement are being challenged to develop new capabilities to keep up with organizational demands in a seamless, integrated manner. Our virtual round table will focus on key topics for coordination and collaboration and the necessary questions that need to be answered to drive results. Please join our panel of experienced professionals to unlock new opportunities for key P2P stakeholders

Jun 29, 2010 - US Bank has implemented best practices to save time and money in its sourcing processes. In this webinar, procurement expert Mike Feeney will share his approach to capturing real savings. Is your company still sending out RFP's, RPI's, and RFQ's (with attachments) over email? Would you like a central repository for all your sourcing events and supplier communication? Are you looking for an affordable solution that your team and suppliers find easy to use? Do you want the option to host a Reverse Auction to complete your overall sourcing strategy? Please join us and get on the path to near-term savings.

Jun 22, 2010 - What are the key considerations, methods and risks for initial and on-going invoice discounts programs? What are the pros and cons of the varied bank products (e.g., p-card, virtual cards, auctions)? What are the key communications and stakeholders that need to buy-in for success? What are the key Policy, Standards and Controls that need updating to provide a secure environment? These common questions and your interest will be discussed by our panel of experts. Please join us for this exciting virtual roundtable.

May 19, 2010 - Over ten years ago, Fluor Procurement adopted a seven-step sourcing strategy for its center-led procurement group. Since that time Fluor continues to practice strategic sourcing for capital project materials. This year Fluor has focused on corporate procurement where Fluor spends its own funds.

Learn how Ketera's data cleansing services and Spend Analysis tool is playing a key role in classifying this on-project spend and helping to provide insight into sourcing opportunities for the corporate procurement group.

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).

Mar 18, 2010 - How can the rev cycle and materials management departments team together to generate significant impact to a hospital’s bottom line? Through applying leading practices including data cleansing and better coordinating sourcing and charge capture efforts, hospitals can increase revenue, reduce costs and have better visibility to their data in order to sustain the improvements.

This webinar will review a case example and walk through how improved data visibility can lead to cost reduction and then can enable the rev cycle team to capture incremental patient charges. Listeners will receive leading practices that they can apply at their hospital to make immediate impact.

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.



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