March 1, 2011

About Our Sponsors

Through its Global Corporate Services Group, American Express provides the Corporate Card, B2B Solutions Suite, and other expense management services to mid-sized companies and large corporations worldwide. In the US, it is the leading issuer of commercial cards, serving more that 60% of the Fortune 1000, as well as tens of thousands of mid-sized companies. American Express issues local-currency commercial cards in 40 counties and Global Dollar Corporate Cards in an additional 100 countries. For more information, please go to www.americanexpress.com/corporate. The American Express Company is a diversified worldwide travel, financial and network services company founded in 1850. It is a leader in charge and credit cards and Travelers Cheques.

    

Coupa is the leading on-demand provider of solutions that control and streamline purchasing for organizations beyond the Fortune 500. Coupa e-Procurement delivers a simple, quick and affordable solution for requisitioning, purchase orders, RFQs, inventory and invoicing, with no hardware to buy or software to license. With deep domain knowledge in eprocurement, a best-in-class software-as-a-service platform, a network of more than 2,300 suppliers, and a fast-growing community of customers, Coupa enables smarter spending practices that allow companies to save money quickly.

    

Global eProcure is a full service procurement company offering a unique blend of consulting, technology and procurement outsourcing services with a focus on bottom-line “realized savings.” With employees spread across three continents and offices in the US, the UK, the Czech Republic, the Costa Rica, China and India, we serve an extensive and well-renowned list of Global 2000 companies. Our clients’ rank among the world’s most widely recognized companies and government entities. Global eProcure is certified Minority and Women-owned Business Enterprise (MWBE).

    

Companies today are challenged to keep pace with global markets, advancing technologies and the perpetual need for operational improvement. IBM's Managed Business Process and Strategic Outsourcing services enable companies to leverage IBM's resources, process innovations and capabilities delivered through a world-class global delivery network that is unmatched in the industry. Partnering with IBM frees clients to focus their investments and resources on growing their business, without sacrificing process optimization or innovation. Procurement Services under Managed Business Process Services facilitate the transformation of Client's procurement operations into an on demand service by leveraging our own award-winning internal Procurement organization. IBM brings sourcing leverage by managing over $53 Billion of spend in order to maximize savings for our clients. We can provide full end-to-end procurement services or selected services based on client's requirements.

    

The Ketera Network TM transforms business buying and selling by integrating an enterprise-class spend management solution and an active community of 250,000 business buyers and suppliers that have transacted over $4 billion in spend and actively collaborate to improve results.
Using the Ketera Network, the procurement organization can improve the efficiency and effectiveness of their entire source-to-pay process with its enterprise-class spend management capabilities that includes sourcing, contract management, procurement, invoicing and spend analytics. And, the Network's supplier discovery and marketing tools help suppliers grow their business and enable buying organizations find better suppliers.
Finally, Ketera’s network-level analytics enable buying organizations and suppliers to benchmark and improve their business strategies. By simultaneously delivering considerable cost savings for buyers and new business opportunities for suppliers, the Ketera Network represents the next generation of business applications that benefit from a strong community multiplier effect.
Based in San Jose, CA, Ketera has been offering on demand spend management solutions for nearly a decade.

    

For twenty years, PlannerNet has consulted with our client’s existing meeting planning teams to develop customized, cost-saving solu¬tions for all their meeting needs. PlannerNet supports over 15,000 meetings each year in the corporate, banking, technology and pharmaceutical sectors via a network of 1500 professional meeting and event managers. Managers are locally deployed to each meeting, resulting in drastically reduced meeting and travel budgets for our clients.
Other solutions include in-house staff to support internal meetings teams, localized international meeting support, small meeting A/V at flat rates, materials management, audience generation and simple meeting website development. All services are offered at flat rates with no travel costs or management fees.

    

ProcureStaff Technologies, a subsidiary of Volt Information Sciences, Inc., is the industry leader in enterprise human capital management technologies, delivering innovation through a single platform for procurement and workforce management. Comprising Consol, the flagship Vendor Management System (VMS) and an array of custom software development services and infrastructure, ProcureStaff Technologies is a world class solution for automating top-quality managed service programs for Fortune 1000 clients. Fully scalable and easily configurable the platform integrates seamlessly with existing ERP software such as Ariba, Oracle, and SAP.

    

JVKellyGroup, Inc. provides cost reduction and risk mitigation solutions for some of the world’s largest organizations. By offering an integrated set of analytics, sourcing services and technology, we help ensure that a company’s spend is effectively analyzed, sourced, managed, and monitored. As a D&B company, JVKellyGroup offers the spend management expertise behind D&B’s Supplier Risk Manager, a leading supplier lifecycle risk management solution to help companies manage the supply base, reduce risk and proactively address changes in the market.

    

StarCite, Inc. provides a SaaS technology platform that delivers visibility, cost savings and control over meetings spending for businesses. StarCite makes meetings and event planning, booking and management simpler, easier, and more cost-effective for corporations and meetings suppliers worldwide. Through Web-based, on-demand technology, StarCite automates and supports every key element of the meetings planning and procurement process: planning, budgeting, buying, attendance, payment, and results measurement. Using StarCite’s proprietary online marketplace, meetings buyers can connect and conduct business with over 93,000 hotels, venues, destinations and suppliers globally.

    

Aditya Birla Minacs is a global provider of outsourcing services with sites and clients in the US, Canada, Europe, Philippines and India. The Source-to-Pay business at Minacs provides Strategic Consulting services utilizing consultants with a combined experience of over 50 years. We work with our clients to get the right contracts in place by utilizing a mix of over 80 category experts in areas such as travel, cell phones, PC’s, and supplies, to more obscure categories (for example, forklifts, ball bearings). Upon awarding of the business, we can immediately support ongoing activities that will achieve cost efficiencies. We can also help the client maximize benefits from their current technology S2P platform, or we can leverage our partnerships to put the right platform in place regardless of size or scale of the company. Minacs’ focus is getting the right contracts negotiated to ensure that our clients optimize their savings potential.

    

Carlson Wagonlit Travel is a global leader in travel management, helping companies of all sizes optimize their program while providing best-in-class service. Based on a program’s size and scope, we use technology and our expert team to help drive savings while enhancing service and security. Consider:

• Total travel costs can be reduced by 10% using an online booking tool within a managed program

• Many companies don’t capture or leverage hotel expenses; typically 30 to 40% of travel costs

• Traveler compliance is key to data capture: used for air, car, rail, and hotel spend negotiations as well as for emergency traveler tracking

• Average savings of 20% are achieved through consolidation

• Integrating meetings/event spend can tap previously overlooked savings opportunities

• Online, real-time, customized data helps monitor progress, illustrate current savings, and identify future opportunities

Explore how we can help you meet your cost objectives: www.carlsonwagonlit.com

    

HCMWorks is a visionary consulting firm that focuses exclusively on optimizing indirect services expenditures for corporations and government organizations worldwide. HCMWorks enables procurement departments to gain greater visibility and control over indirect service expenditures with our proprietary 4-step V2H™ methodology that provides rapid ROI and sustainable results.
HCMWorks promises:
• greater visibility into and control over indirect service expenditures, which means . . .
• rapid ROI with substantial and measureable reduction of indirect operating costs,which results in . . .
• strategic insight that creates a competitive advantage for our clients.

    

Dryden is a leading cost containment company focused on MRO indirect spend categories - office supplies, lab supplies, janitorial/break room products, electrical & mechanical products. Because of this limited specialization in these categories, we have focused on building deep commodity expertise and proprietary information technology which are unmatched in the marketplace today. Specifically, Dryden designs and implements "Best Practice" commodity programs that all have the ability to be audited, measured, benchmarked, and optimized on a continual basis. Our customers are comprised primarily of Fortune 1000 and large healthcare companies. Typically, our customers utilize the latest e-procurement, auction, sourcing and spend analytic technologies, but turn to us for our areas of expertise. For additional information please visit www.drydengroup.com

    

Established in 1994, Corbus is a global leader in outsourcing with the focus on Procurement Outsourcing and IT services. Corbus provides strategic and tactical sourcing services for both Direct as well as Indirect procurement, providing incremental and complete managed 'Source-to-Pay' and FAO Services to its clients.

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 subsidiaries and affiliates with revenues exceeding $350 million. Corbus has a strong presence in US, Europe, Asia-Pacific markets, and a Global Delivery Center in India. In addition to Corbus’s global presence, scalable and sustainable world-class infrastructure, business continuity processes, ISO 9001: 2000 & SEI CMMi Level-5 certifications helps our company to have become a preferred service provider for several Fortune 1000 companies. The Corbus management team consists of highly experienced professionals with significantly diverse backgrounds and industry expertise.

For more than a decade, Corbus has managed billions of dollars of procurement for several Fortune 1000 companies and has exceeded in Quality, Cost, Delivery, and Compliance
(QCDC™) key performance metrics and service levels along with improved compliance and a reduced cost of procurement process. Corbus is also known for its ability to work in true partnership with clients to provide innovation, while being responsive and flexible to our clients..
We follow the DMAIC methodology based on Six Sigma to provide a robust outsourcing solution to our clients. Corbus has been recognized as a leading service provider in ‘Procurement Services' by several leading research companies.

    

OIG is an e-business solutions provider and expert in supply chain management and supplier enablement. The SaaS based offerings represent a complete suite of solutions for automating the Requisition to Reconciliation process. Whether an organization needs an e-catalog shopping experience and content management solution, e-procurement tool for requisitions, approvals, budget management and reconciliation or supplier enablement technologies for PO Lifecycle Management partnered with a flexible payment processing to strengthen cash management OIG can deliver.

The SaaS based solutions address real business problems for both buyers and suppliers. Clients immediately gain clear spend visibility to operational expenditures as well as valuable process savings. Simply stated, OIG helps companies reduce costs, errors and cycle times throughout the supply chain. Visit us online at www.OsirisIG.com or call 800-445-0010 for additional information.

    

SETECH is a best-in-class, scalable "Pure" Integrated Supplier for the outsourcing of Indirect Material Management.

The company specializes in the maintenance, repair and operations (MRO) industrial supply segment using an experienced staff of Certified Six Sigma Black Belt's, Certified Maintenance and Reliability Professionals, Lean Manufacturing Sensei's, Supply Chain Managers, and previous plant, maintenance, and operation managers.

SETECH has been in the integrated supply and indirect materials management (IMM) industry for over 20 years, and provides a comprehensive solution for companies seeking to reduce the total cost associated with managing their indirect materials. SETECH's global footprint is the most comprehensive in the industry.