SAQQARA, META Group, and Cooper Industries

SAQQARA, META Group, and Cooper Industries presented a webcast on October 19th. If you missed it, you can view the recording by clicking here.

Robert Johnson and Carl Lehmann of META Group presented new findings from their most current benchmarking survey on e-procurement. The webcast offered actionable insight into the state of e-procurement and the impact of innovation in systems, processes, data and analysis. The study addresses several topics including:

• Contract compliance, and the business impact of real-time contract enforcement
• The analytic value of better SKU data linkage, construction and organization
• Key business practices that eliminate maverick spending
• The potential savings to be gained by outsourcing e-procurement catalogue management

Paul Kimberling of Cooper Industries presented a case study of his company's e-procurement improvement initiative and how SAQQARA's managed service helped the company implements its sourcing strategy. His case study addresses:

• The sourcing challenges that arise from managing and maintaining disparate e-procurement systems
• The advantages of strategic sourcing across divisions, and how to drive more business to preferred suppliers
• The advantages of utilizing catalogue construction, management and maintenance services, vs. in-house development
• How to increase user adoption and satisfaction by making the system easy to use

If your company is examining ways to improve it e-procurement initiative, then you want to hear this educational and informative webcast. Click here to view the recording.

SAQQARA, AMR Research, and America West Airlines

SAQQARA, AMR Research, and America West Airlines presented a webcast on September 9th. If you missed it, you can view the recording by clicking here.

This presentation focuses on how to achieve spend management savings in e-procurement by concentrating efforts on content management, and how America West achieved significant ROI from their e-procurement strategy by partnering with SAQQARA.

Mr. Mitchell from AMR Research is a prominent analyst covering the supplier-facing technologies that support strategic sourcing and procurement. He was recently named by iSource magazine as one of the top 50 practitioner "pros to know" in supply management. This expert discusses which elements of an effective ESM initiative are critical to maximizing your savings, such as:

• An e-procurement system that contains clean and consistent data from your supply base
• Consistent business policies that are applied to purchases on an enterprise-wide scale
• Elimination of the cost and pain associated with ongoing supplier management and content maintenance

Hear how America West optimizes its e-procurement and ESM strategies by partnering with SAQQARA. Click here to view the recording.

SAQQARA & Alcoa

SAQQARA and Alcoa presented a webcast on June 24. If you missed it, you can view the recording by clicking here.

This presentation focuses on how to achieve spend management savings with e-procurement, and how SAQQARA is strategic to Alcoams e-procurement results.

Hear how Alcoa, a Fortune 100 company, partnered with SAQQARA to:

• Quickly and effectively onboard a large number of suppliers
• Construct a hosted commerce catalog of over 200 suppliers and one million SKUs
• Support a wide range of supplier management issues

SAQQARA transforms potential savings into significant actual savings of total spend. Learn how SAQQARA applies fully automated capabilities to fuse together and manage disparate data and publishing policies, enabling enterprise strength "touchless" transactions, contract compliance, sourcing optimization, and inventory management - all necessary requirements for ESM initiatives.

Alcoa is the world's leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum and alumina, and is active in all major aspects of the industry. Alcoa serves the aerospace, automotive, packaging, building and construction, commercial transportation and industrial markets, bringing design, engineering, production and other capabilities of Alcoams businesses to customers. The company has 120,000 employees in 41 countries and has been a member of the Dow Jones Industrial Average for 45 years and the Dow Jones Sustainability Indexes since 2001.

If your'e looking to transform potential savings into actual savings, and want bottom line results, click here to view the recording.