Companies are currently being faced with a wide range of business challenges that have put data quality and management initiatives in the forefront. These include:

• Increased overall company business management visibility from consolidated ERP systems
• Reduced inventory through better part management
• Spend control and reduced transaction costs with procurement automation systems
• Lower costs by optimizing sourcing

A key success factor in these and other initiatives is the dependence on having high-quality commerce data—in the form of item master product data, supplier catalog information, contract pricing, settlement data, and customer service data—to feed these new business processes and applications.

SAQQARA's Item Master Management and e-Procurement solutions produce quality commerce data and ensure its ongoing quality through cost effective managed service processes. We apply a patented content management technology to make sure that our customers can achieve their business objectives through accurate and up-to-date product data in their item master and supplier catalogs.

SAQQARA CDM for Item Master Management

SAQQARA CDM for Item Master Management helps companies solve the challenges of poor data quality and allows them to use the clean, item master product data to drive inventory reduction, efficient purchasing, spend analytics, and business intelligence programs. SAQQARA applies fully automated technology with proven processes and people to create a clean and unique master record. We perform duplicate identification and implement processes to correctly populate or re-populate the ERP system of record.

SAQQARA meets the challenge head-on by helping companies reach their data quality objectives through Item Master Management by:

• Creating or enhancing content taxonomies
• Cleansing legacy data through normalization, attribution, and applying business rules
• Enriching content through content sourcing

Enabling you to:

• Reduce inventory through better visibility and identification of common parts across plants
• Use existing business intelligence solutions for better analytics
• Improve spending analytics for better contract negotiation

SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement

SAQQARA CDM for e-Procurement™ is a Web-based managed service for supplier enablement, content management, and catalog hosting that accelerates the ROI of e-procurement technology. SAQQARA provides buying organizations with a hosted, aggregated private catalog, which reflects the unique commercial relationships and business processes between buying organizations and their suppliers. This solution delivers the fastest supplier enablement in the industry, improved and customized catalog content, and rapid user adoption.

Our services integrate directly with SAP EBPro, Oracle iProcurement, Ariba Buyer, PeopleSoft SRM and others to leverage and extend your existing technology investments. There is no requirement or need to purchase or install any new hardware or software or to make any major capital investment. SAQQARA enables these capabilities with a simple, subscription-based service. Built on our patented, best-in-class technology, enterprise-strength IT operations and proven processes our service provides an enterprise-caliber solution to your supplier enablement, content management and catalog needs. Importantly you can implement our services with minimal effort on your part and be up and running in as little as 30 to 60 days. We can:

• Bring suppliers on board and handle all related supplier management
• Clean supplier content
• Incorporate contract terms

Our managed service enables you to:

• Achieve a higher percentage of "touchless" procure-to-pay transactions
• Eliminate manual spend
• Create a foundation of data that supports effective spend analytics