Sourcing & Procurement
SITE SELECTION AND SUPPLIER MANAGEMENT FOR THE ENTERPRISE
Certain’s Sourcing and Procurement solutions empower meeting planners and procurement professionals to efficiently select the most cost-effective suppliers for their meetings. As a critical component of the Strategic Meetings Management Program, Certain Software helps corporations and other meeting planning organizations get control over site selection to achieve cost savings through better supplier negotiations. By implementing Certain’s supplier management capabilities solution, procurement departments can ensure that all supplier negotiation activity in the organization is tracked in a single place, allowing for greater accountability controls and enterprise-wide reporting on savings and spend per vendor.
FEATURES AT A GLANCE
- Integrated Supplier Management
- Supplier Import Wizard
- Flexible Supplier Search
- Task Management
- Track Proposals, RFPs, Contracts
- Powerful and Flexible Reporting
Certain Software offers a full set of capabilities to meetings and procurement professionals, in a cost-effective and modular platform. Certain’s Sourcing and Procurement tools will allow users to:
MANAGE YOUR PERSONAL SUPPLIER DATABASE
With Certain’s Sourcing and Procurement solutions, corporations and meeting planning organizations can easily manage their meetings and events suppliers in one convenient location.
- Import supplier lists
- Manage supplier information, including hotel details and preferred suppliers
- Run Supplier reports
PICK YOUR BEST SUPPLIERS
Not every supplier is the same – some are better suited than others to serve your meeting needs. Certain’s Sourcing and Procurement solutions have the resources for corporations and meeting planning organizations to quickly choose the best properties and vendors.
- Powerful Supplier Search
- Use your preferred supplier list to take advantage of relationships and negotiated discounts
LINK ALL YOUR INFORMATION TOGETHER
Certain’s Sourcing Solution enables users to link all event-related information like Contracts, Proposals, RFPs, Suppliers, Venues, together. All your information, present and historical, is available at the click of a button at the office or live at the event.
- No more silos of information - one system to manage all your information
- Link all critical information together and keep track of historical data and documents
- Accessible in real-time in the office or while at the event, even on an iPad
SAVE VALUABLE TIME
Certain’s Sourcing solution streamlines the production and submission of RFPs for meetings and events, saving valuable time and reducing the frequency of costly errors that slow the vendor and site selection process.
- Use templates with default questions and concessions for each internal and external client
- Produce accurate and detailed event budgets and later compare with contracted and actual values
- Create RFPs and submit to select suppliers
EASY REPORTING AT YOUR FINGERTIPS
Strategic sourcing is only as good as the reporting. Using Certain Software’s Sourcing capabilities, gain instant access to relevant information that provides the data for critical decision-making.
- View and export tailored reports at the event and organization level
- Share reports with clients and management
- Gain visibility into the results of your SMMP on budget and savings