SAS^® Solutions for Supplier Intelligence

Some organizations spend as much as 60 percent of revenue to acquire the goods and services necessary to conduct business. Given this number, the pressure for procurement professionals to reduce spending is hardly surprising. How do you move beyond spend reduction to true strategic sourcing?   In the Spotlight Free report offer! Aberdeen Group's new research study: The Supply Risk Management Benchmark Report SAS enables strategic sourcing through an integrated set of data management and analytic applications designed specifically for the procurement professional. With SAS Supplier Relationship Management, you can: Create comprehensive, accurate and detailed spend visibility across all of your spend data – regardless of where it exists and what format it is stored in. Set, measure and manage optimal sourcing strategies that achieve corporate objectives while effectively managing supply risk. Develop a comprehensive, accurate profile of the supplier base. Prioritize and consolidate suppliers based on the factors most important to your business. Ensure contract compliance and reduce maverick spending. SAS solutions for Supplier Intelligence allow you to focus on your top priorities today and then expand in the future. SAS Sourcing Data Quality provides accurate, detailed, comprehensive information to help you reduce commodity spend without increasing risk. SAS Spend Analysis helps you reduce enterprise spend across suppliers and commodities by providing increased visibility into procurement information. SAS Procurement Scorecard helps you set, measure and manage procurement strategies that are aligned with corporate goals. SAS for Supply Risk Management provides you with a single point of control to develop, implement and maintain a supply risk management strategy across the enterprise. SAS Sourcing Strategy uses advanced SAS analytics to support supply base optimization. SAS Solutions OnDemand For customers in the Americas, SAS provides the option to host your application as a service. With SAS Solutions OnDemand, you simply send your data to SAS, and we apply our unsurpassed analytic capabilities. Then we send a variety of reports back to you. The hosted version of SAS Supplier Relationship Management (PDF: 651KB) even lets you access SAS’ analysis and reporting capabilities as if the solution were locally installed.

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