Transform knowledge into profit

Now more than ever, corporate leadership understands the significant impact supply management strategy has on earnings. At D&B, we value the strategic role Supply Management must play in a corporation today. D&B Supply Management Solutions helps companies transform their supply strategy into a competitive advantage for their organisation.

The first stages of supply chain optimisation are always the easiest: consolidating spend on key materials and suppliers; reigning in organisational spend; implementing purchase order systems. But where do you go from there?

Without setting the standards that will provide a clear view of exactly what you are purchasing and from whom, supply chain optimisation is virtually impossible and you may never see the ROI on the money you have invested in technology.

With three modules that operate in tandem as a comprehensive solution, our Supply Management System comprises of:

• Supply Spend Analysis - Find the money: helping you identify areas in the supply management process that have the biggest impact on profitability. This analysis demonstrates savings and efficiencies, while assessing your supply base risk and dependency.
• Supply Intelligence - Get the money: offers an external market perspective and locates and qualifies suppliers based on your corporate objectives and risk and performance measures - helping you gain bottom line control over strategic sourcing.
• Supply Base Optimisation - Keep the money coming: helps you automate information transfer and renewal. Thus ensuring up-to-date internal and external perspectives so that the integrity and accountability of your supply base is as dynamic as the business and the market that you are in today.

No matter how complex your enterprise-wide supply management processes are, we organise and coordinate strategic sourcing strategies to help you decide with confidence and enhance bottom-line performance.