Optimizing Your Buying Processes

Smarter Commerce optimizes supplier and partner interactions based on changes in shopping/buying behavior across the supply chain and reconsiders partner roles and relationships to generate new and differentiating customer value.

IBM’s integrated portfolio of solutions includes Consulting & Services, Software, Advanced Analytics & Infrastructure for the following core business processes: Trading Partner Management; Supplier Management; Supply Chain Management, Supply Chain Visibility & Optimization; Logistics Management; Inventory Management, Procurement Transformation, Supply Chain & Procurement and Business Process Outsourcing.

Global companies face an exceptionally complex economic and operational environment that presents significant challenges, from managing global growth to sustainably reducing costs, from enforcing compliance to mitigating increasing volatility and risk.

Procurement organizations play a critical role in managing these challenges – and in achieving critical corporate objectives. Yet, Procurement organizations are challenged themselves with managing an increasingly global supply base, optimizing complex processes and making sense of data scattered across disparate systems.

IBM Emptoris Strategic Supply Management helps companies meet these challenges with a suite of solutions that connect disparate systems and teams to provide complete visibility and control over spend, contracts, service providers and supplier intelligence and processes.