About Our Sponsors

Efficio is a results-focused procurement consultancy, with a track record of helping leading organisations achieve more value from their procurement. Whether the challenge is delivering significant savings to the bottom line or managing suppliers to create value for the longer term, Efficio provides a range of client-tailored services including:

Procurement Opportunity Assessment

Strategic Sourcing Execution

People and Process Development

Procurement Transformation

Comprised of experienced professionals with a blue-chip consultancy heritage, Efficio combines the credentials of a top tier firm, with the depth of expertise and execution of a flexible niche player. With offices in the UK, Germany, France and Switzerland and a growing operation in the USA, we service clients from a broad range of sectors throughout Europe and the United States. To learn more, please visit www.efficioconsulting.com or call +44 (0)20 7553 6900

Barclaycard Commercial is at the forefront of developments in the commercial card industry, with a proud 40 year track record of innovation. As a leading provider of Visa Commercial Cards in Europe we have brought to market a significant number of payment innovations, and in recent years, moved away from the concept of plastic cards towards payment solutions that fully integrate into the end-to-end value chain.

We have adopted a Fresh Thinking approach to business-to-business payments, extending our solution set to cover both new categories of spend and addressing the specific requirements of new segments within our customers’ overall expenditure.

Our portfolio of solutions includes plastic purchasing cards as well as embedded and virtual cards, rendering many manual invoice settlements, credit checks and other time consuming processes redundant, reducing your administration costs.

Our solutions are supported by our online platforms, Online Services and our new system -Barclaycard Spend Management - which offers card administration, expense workflow management and sophisticated reporting in over 15 languages.

A.T. Kearney is a global management consulting firm that uses strategic insight, tailored solutions and a collaborative working style to help clients achieve sustainable results. Since 1926, we have been trusted advisors on CEO-agenda issues to the world’s leading corporations across all major industries. A.T. Kearney's offices are located in major business centers in 37 countries. A.T. Kearney is committed to sustainability and is carbon neutral across its global operations.

A.T. Kearney Procurement & Analytic Solutions, a practice unit within A.T. Kearney, Inc., offers clients value-driven services designed to enhance strategic procurement efforts and supply chain transformation. Results achieved include accelerated savings and value creation across the entire organization. Through innovation and growth, risk management, value chain optimization and advanced cost-management techniques, as well as our use of integrated service delivery capabilities, sourcing technologies, advanced analytic solutions, and best-in-class intellectual capital, we help executives transform their procurement and supply chain processes to increase efficiency and effectiveness.

Corbus, LLC

Corbus, LLC, a global solutions provider founded in 1994, offers superior services combining years of experience, solid partnerships and adaptability. Corbus’ solution offering includes Information Technology (IT), Supply Chain Management (SCM) and Project Management (PMO) services. Corbus creates technology-empowered solutions with industry leading processes and technologies that deliver business value to global clients through year-on-year savings and are known for the ability to work in true partnership with clients to innovate and bring cost reduction along with enhanced product quality. With competitive positioning and complete transparency, Corbus and clients together achieve success. For more information, visit http://www.Corbus.com.

Corbus is a global organization with presence in North America, Europe, Middle East and Asia Pacific markets. Corbus is a wholly owned subsidiary of Soin International LLC, a private multi-national holding company that provides strategic management, administrative systems, and financial support to a diverse array of worldwide subsidiaries and affiliates.

Deutsche Bank - Trade Finance/Cash Management

Deutsche Bank’s Trade Finance and Cash Management teams provide a combination of commercial banking products and services for corporates and financial institutions dealing with the management and processing of domestic and cross-border payments, professional risk mitigation for international trade and asset and liability management. Our customers are supported in their domestic, regional and international trade finance and cash management programs through Deutsche Bank’s extensive global network of offices in all major and secondary financial markets, plus hubs in Frankfurt, London, New York and Singapore. A complete range of robust and reliable solutions are available in Europe, the Americas and Asia Pacific, including:

• db trade solutions
• db transaction solutions
• db channel & information solutions
• db liquidity management solutions
• db card solutions
• db financial supply chain solutions

For more information please visit: www.db.com/gtb

Contacts:

Deutsche Bank AG
Alexander Mutter
Taunusanlage 12
60325 Frankfurt
Tel.: +49 69 910 36141
Fax: +49 69 910 46930
Email: alexander.mutter@db.com
www.db.com/gtb

CombineNet, Inc. is the advanced sourcing technology company with over 10 years in delivering exceptional value to Global 2000 organizations. We offer the best-in-class sourcing solution delivered through our product CombineNet ASAP (Advanced Sourcing Application Platform), to improve the way organizations source their entire range of spend categories – from the routine to the largest and most complex. CombineNet ASAP delivers benefits in increased spend savings, enhanced supplier relationships, improved team productivity, and better ROA by easily integrating with existing systems and processes. www.combinenet.com

buyingTeam is a procurement outsourcer and solutions provider, bringing extraordinary benefits to blue chip organisations across Europe and North America via an innovative knowledge-based shared services model. Fundamental to our success is how we change the way our clients think about procurement, redefining it as an indispensable strategic tool at the heart of the business.

"Zycus provides integrated, comprehensive yet easy to use spend management solutions to companies who aim to build a world class procurement organization. Cutting edge technology and expertise in the domain has enabled us to deliver millions of dollars in savings. Zycus is a global company with multiple offices in USA, Europe and Asia and more than 200 customers spreading across 20 countries. Most of its customers are Fortune 500 & Fortune 1000 companies.

The Zycus suite comprises of solutions for spend analysis, eSourcing, contract management, supplier performance management and supplier information management."

Summit Energy provides energy management services to businesses in a wide range of industries, leading companies to cost-effective strategies by providing energy procurement, risk management, rate analysis, demand reduction and sustainability services. Summit manages more than $20 billion in annualized energy spend for more than 650 clients worldwide.

About MDSL

MDSL is the market leader in international Telecom Expense Management (TEM) and Market Data Management (MDM) solutions with offices in London, New York, Paris, Tokyo and Hong Kong. The company features in the 2010 Gartner TEM Magic Quadrant, and is one of very few providers to carry ISO 27001, ISO 9001 and Safe Harbor certification.

Established in 1995, MDSL’s award-winning software and services assist enterprises around the world to manage their communications and market data costs more efficiently, and achieve significant cost savings on a global scale. With a range of solutions covering the full life cycle, from procurement to invoice reconciliation, more than 150 customers in over 34 countries trust MDSL products and services to deliver tangible and measurable benefits to their bottom line.

MDSL is a member of the TEM Industry Association (TEMIA). The company was recently rated top international TEM provider in an AOTMP survey of customer satisfaction and is ranked in the Top-25 UK businesses in the Sunday Times 2011 International Track-100 list. MDSL was recently voted “Best Supporting Services Provider” category in the 2011 Inside Market Data Awards.

Achilles helps companies to improve their supplier information management. Our range of web-based services identify, qualify, evaluate and monitor suppliers on behalf of buyers’ organisations worldwide. On-boarding suppliers and validating their information throughout the life of the business relationship enables buyers to be better informed in order to make better procurement decisions. Achilles has offices in 22 locations around the world and we actively support over 750 of the world’s largest buying organisations to manage their supplier information. With a global view of the supplier base buyers: have access to accurate and up-to-date information on their suppliers; they can streamline their supplier engagement, standardise their policies and reduce the risk of non-compliance (in areas such as health and safety, quality and environment); and confidently assess the total impact of their procurement decisions.

About Capgemini

Capgemini, one of the world's foremost providers of consulting, technology and outsourcing services, enables its clients to transform and perform through technologies. Capgemini provides its clients with insights and capabilities that boost their freedom to achieve superior results through a unique way of working, the Collaborative Business Experience^TM. The Group relies on its global delivery model called Rightshore^®, which aims to get the right balance of the best talent from multiple locations, working as one team to create and deliver the optimum solution for clients. Present in 40 countries, Capgemini reported 2010 global revenues of EUR 8.7 billion and employs around 110,000 people worldwide.

More information is available at www.capgemini.com.

Bureau van Dijk works with over 100 leading data providers around the world to create information solutions that empower procurement professionals.

We cover companies’ financials, what they do, their financial strength and their corporate structures.
Create synergy by integrating the information on our products directly into your supplier management system, enriching your data to get valuable insight across your portfolio.

Our products empower cost reduction, credit risk analysis and strategic purchasing.
• Improve your supplier knowledge and enrich your intelligence
• Source new and alternative suppliers; create benchmarks to help your buyers’ decide who to proceed with
• Create customised risk and spend reports on your supplier portfolio

Our products include:
• Orbis – 80 million companies worldwide
• Amadeus – 18 million companies across Europe
• Fame – companies in UK and Ireland.

Our new Procurement Catalyst takes the most common procurement questions, and simplifies how you use our data to get to the answers.

GEP® (Global eProcure) is a leading procurement services firm dedicated to helping enterprises add value and reduce costs through procurement and supply chain transformation. With a comprehensive portfolio of services and solutions, GEP helps many of the world's largest organizations uncover savings opportunities, and deliver these savings to the bottom line. We have managed over $50 billion of spend on behalf of these clients, across industry sectors and geographies. Our blended model combines management consulting, strategic sourcing support, implementation and outsourcing services with a full suite of best-in-class procurement tools and technology solutions.

Our global footprint helps us to deliver these services wherever our clients need them. Headquartered in New Jersey, USA, we have offices in London (UK), Prague (Czech Republic), Mumbai & Hyderabad (India), Shanghai (China), São Paulo (Brazil) and Willoughby (Australia).

For more information, please visit www.gep.com

• Collaborate closely with your team
• Get insight into savings
• Be informed with less effort and get contextual information that is relevant
• Easily engage and negotiate with your suppliers
• Update your projects in seconds and instantly keep your team in the loop

PROACTIS is a leading provider of spend control and eProcurement solutions. Hundreds of organizations around the world use PROACTIS software and services to streamline the purchase-to-pay process and obtain best value and control in procurement.

· Procurement Solutions: to help organizations to automate the full buying cycle from improving the way they find, evaluate and engage suppliers to increasing "on-contract" spending and enabling more effective collaboration with their trading network.

· Purchase-to-Pay Solutions: to enable organizations to streamline the purchase-to-pay process, eliminate labor-intensive manual registration of invoices, speed up invoice matching and approvals and gain control of "after-the-event" purchase claims.

Widely used in mid-to-large sized organizations across private, public and not-for-profit sectors, PROACTIS is routinely integrated with ERP and financial systems. PROACTIS also offers a range of on-premise and cloud-based delivery options, including Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) and dedicated-hosted application delivery, and flexible licensing models.

PROACTIS Group was founded in 1996 and has been listed on the London Stock Exchange since 2006 (AIM: phd). Headquartered in the UK with operations in North America, PROACTIS has an extensive accredited partner network in EMEA, Americas and APAC regions.

Beroe

Beroe is a premier global provider of customized procurement enablement services specializing in sourcing, supply chain and supplier risk analysis, and environmental impact. Some of our customers are the largest in the world, including over 60 of the Fortune 500. Beroe delivers strategic procurement intelligence that helps you answer critical questions and achieve business objectives. As an integrated extension of your procurement function, Beroe is the only firm to offer specialized benchmarking, forecasting and costing models. With dedicated procurement specialists in each domain, we proactively invest in knowledge assets to build valuable, real-time procurement insight.

Beroe: The future of procurement intelligence.

Beeline

Headquartered in Jacksonville, Florida, Beeline is the market leader in Contingent Workforce Solutions managing over 25,000 active contractors and over $4 billion in contingent and project based labor spend. Size, stability and expertise have put Beeline on top in a field of growing importance. Beeline’s solutions are focused on reducing costs, enforcing policies, and improving the quality of contingent and project based labor programs for Fortune 500 and Global 1000 organizations. Beeline’s solutions include: Vendor Management Software, Services Procurement Software, Managed Services, and SmartView® Analytics and Intelligence.

For additional information on Beeline, visit www.beeline.com

Connolly

Connolly is the largest recovery audit firm in the US and the largest private recovery audit firm worldwide. For more than 30 years, we have provided a comprehensive and integrated set of audit and associated advisory services focused primarily on the post payment & post-award contract management with the goal of delivering value to our clients in one or more of four major value buckets:

- Cash Recovery 
-  Future Leakage Prevention 
- Compliance Improvement and Assurance 
- Contract Risk Management

With more than 800 professionals, offices in the US and Europe, and a network of contractors inside and outside those regions, we can be a truly global partner in post contract recovery, compliance and risk auditing. We are proud to say that last year in the “cash recovery value bucket,” we were able to recover more than $1 billion for our clients which went straight to their bottom line.