IBM Spend Assessment: Optimize your procurement spend and increase savings by 5%-15%.
Intelligent workflows for strategic sourcing and procurement
From strategic sourcing through payables, IBM Procurement Services can help revolutionize your procurement processes and transform your business into a cognitive enterprise. By accessing refined, real-time data we deliver a highly personalized user experience that can learn over time. This allows for quicker, more informed decision making and maximizes preferred suppliers. IBM global spend category expertise can optimize spend savings for your business through intelligent workflows.
- Transform from analog to digital for more seamless, responsive procurement.
- Enrich data for spend analytics and cognitive insights to make more informed decisions.
- Elevate talent capabilities and procurement intelligence by automating procurement processes and low-value activities.
Strategic sourcing and procurement services benefits
Fuel business growth by tapping new sources of procurement value.
Drive top performance by leveraging under-used procurement intelligence.
Realize ROI in as few as three months with low startup costs.¹
Strategic sourcing and procurement services
Procurement advisory and transformation
Let IBM experts advise you on how to shift to a fully integrated and highly automated future, leveraging Design Thinking and cognitive solutions.
Source to pay
Reduce business costs and meet the challenges of complex global enterprises through effective data-driven source-to-pay operations. Improve user experience, increase compliance and gain insights with cognitive solutions.
Procurement analytics as a service
This cognitive capability combines data enrichment with analytics to surface opportunities such as tail spend, catalog and payment terms optimization. IBM experts recommend actions and savings potential.
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Case study
IBM takes on procurement transformation
With operations in over 170 countries and over 13,000 suppliers, procurement has always been the life blood of IBM. However, long-entrenched processes and siloed data across this heavily matrixed organization were leading to frustrations with the procurement process. IBM needed an updated approach to their procurement capabilities.
Educational resources
Webinar
The Big Procurement Debate: Why procurement struggles to deliver value beyond cost-reduction
Disrupting Procurement with AI
Join experts from IBM Watson and Autodesk as they share how easy it is to start applying artificial intelligence to streamline contract reviews and improve accuracy
White paper
Automated Insight Generation in Procurement: The AI enabler and speed to value
White paper
IBM and SAP Ariba: The road to intelligent procurement — enabling the journey to value
Executive brief
Marketing Procurement: Say “yes” to automation
White paper
The changing face of sourcing freight in a cognitive computing world
Meet the experts
Amit Sharma
Global Leader, IBM Procurement Services
“We are helping shape the future of procurement.”
Moray Reid
Marketing & Alliances - IBM Procurement Services
“To ensure success, I will understand your business and objectives and translate that to value and outcomes.”
Graham Wright
Procurement, Finance & Operations - IBM Procurement Services
“There’s phenomenal change happening in procurement. It never stands still.”
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