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Bring Spend Under Control

Ketera Network's OnDemand procurement solution streamlines and automates the entire procurement process to give you greater control over spending, reduce maverick buying and increase spending compliance. Ketera's procurement solution is intuitive and easy-to-use just like the best online shopping websites, so every employee can be up and running in no time.  Unlike other eProcurement solutions in the industry, Ketera Procurement powers companies of all sizes from Fortune 50 to mid-sized organizations.

Ketera Procurement Leading companies of all sizes use Ketera's procurement solution. With Ketera, you can:

Automate the entire procurement process
• Rein in maverick spending
• Control spend by managing to budgets
• Increase compliance with procurement policies
• Streamline receiving at all levels
• Be up and running in less than a day

Key capabilities include:

The Ketera Network provides a proven eProcurement system at a very low cost of ownership

  • Consumer shopping experience: Solution designed to be intuitive for quick adoption with no training. Browse and search access to product catalogs including images to compare attributes and shopping cart paradigm
  • Favorites: Allows users to add items to their shopping cart in a quick and easy way instead of having to search for items every single time
  • Support for punchout to supplier websites: Ability to add comments and documents during requisitioning and approval process
  • Multiple purchase types: Support for Off-catalog requisition (spot buys) and blanket purchase orders
  • Requisition Workflow: Requisition approval workflow including approval levels, hierarchy, approval limits, alerts, notifications and escalations to support any organizational model
  • Budget Control: Setup and manage budgets, ensure requisitions stays within budget, track spend against budget, audit trails for changes to budgets
  • Quick Quote: Create RFI or RFQ at individual line item, while working on a Purchase Order, and send it to the network to find better prices and terms from other suppliers
  • Purchase Orders: Easily create POs from approved requisitions and send them to suppliers
  • Receiving: Centralized and decentralized receiving models

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