Procurement consulting and outsourcing services

IBM transforms procure-to-pay and financial processes with necessary insights and sourcing intelligence. Digitized processes yield improved productivity, faster results, standardization and a platform for optimizing cost savings and growth — all while elevating the user experience.

We transform the purchase-to-receive cycle to ensure content is easily available through a single delightful experience, including automated routing of all spend to optimized buying channels.

We bring procurement and accounts payable together for continuous improvement and apply intelligent workflows and analytics to deliver agile processes infused with deeper insight.

IBM combines data enrichment with advanced analytics to surface opportunities such as tail spend, catalog and payment terms optimization — maximizing preferred suppliers and leading to more informed decisions. We offer clients advisory services featuring procurement data insights and help achieve cost reduction.

SmartBuy, designed and implemented by IBM, uses SAP Ariba solutions to support the digitization of ABB's procurement processes. This end-to-end purchasing program helps drive business value and provides a fast, intuitive experience for employees and suppliers.

Complicated processes and disparate data sources led to frustrations with the procurement operations at IBM. To improve their approach, IBM developed a procurement analytics platform that is now core to how teams around the world strategically manage their procurement and supply chain operations — optimizing 62 million lead-to-cash transactions annually.