INNOVATION

IN PURCHASING

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CONTRACT MANAGEMENT

E-PROCUREMENT

PURCHASING DECISION

IVALUA in a nutshell...Founded in January of 2000, Ivalua is currently ranked among the leading worldwide Spend Management solution providers. Successful in both Europe and the US, Ivalua has deployed several hundred projects for large international companies in a wide range of industries.

In light of its experience and of its multi-sector expertise, Ivalua continues to support an extremely proactive product innovation policy that centers on bringing its users the greatest value, efficiency and ease of use, day in and day out.

Ivalua Buyer’s worldwide success can be summarized in 4 major points:

Full Suite of Solutions for Spend Management: by combining strategic sourcing, transactional functions, supplier relationship and procurement controls, all from within a single, integrated solution.

Flexibility in configuration and customization, allowing Buyer to adapt to clients’ specific needs without having to involve IT, while also remaining on the standard Ivalua Buyer solution package.

A User Interface acclaimed for its simplicity and effectiveness, which allows a quick start-up and long-term, sustained adoption by its users.

An agile, collaborative implementation method, to not only shorten time frames but also contain overall deployment costs.

SUPPLIER RELATIONSHIP MANAGEMENT

E-SOURCING

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To support clients during set-up and implementation of Ivalua Buyer, Ivalua employs an agile configuration methodology and an extended range of services to improve user productivity, efficiency of the procurement process and spend management functionality.

TRAINING POSSIBILITIES

Ivalua’s training programs cover functional, technical and administrative needs, catering to all user categories (Buyers, Managers, Executives, Suppliers), in several languages and on all continents.The goal of these training programs is to fully empower users to make the most out of the application’s rich features.

SUPPORT AND ASSISTANCE

Where desired, Ivalua offers support and assistance services to users and suppliers with access to Ivalua Buyer. This service is available 24/6 in multiple languages.

SYSTEM ADMINISTRATION SERVICE

The functional administration of Ivalua Buyer is a crucial issue for our clients who want to tune up and enrich their application on a regular basis. Ivalua offers a complete administration service to its clients where a product expert is allocated to perform all or part of the administrative tasks. This allows the client to speed up implementation and establish best e-Procurement practices.

ORGANIzATION AND E-SOURCING EVENTS HOSTING

Ivalua assists its clients in the organization of their sourcing events (RFx and auctions). We assist Purchasing managers in the fine-tuning of their bid requests, we ensure that the Suppliers are trained and properly informed of the rules and we act as a trusted third-party in the running of auctions.

INVOICE DIGITIzING

Ivalua offers the ability to handle all necessary operations for the import of supplier invoices into Ivalua Buyer: receipt, P.O. flip, scanning, digitizing and software-related integration.

CATALOG MANAGEMENT

The service center provides all necessary operations for the integration and management of your suppliers into Ivalua Buyer, speeding up the onboarding process and ensuring timely updates of key data (items, prices, specifications, availability, etc.)

DATA qUALITY IMPROVEMENT

Ivalua offers its clients access to a structured supplier reference database, free of duplicates and enriched with the information relevant to Procurement, along with a complete and reliable overview of spend. We therefore recommend ongoing and in-depth data cleanup and enrichment services based on our advanced algorithms as well as the expertise of our teams.

IT ExPERTISE AND OPERATIONAL ASSISTANCE

Ivalua offers a technical assistance service to their clients to maintain optimal Ivalua Buyer operational conditions in terms of application performance, security and availability. Our technical experts can also manage the technical issues related to software version installation on behalf of the clients.

SERVICES AVAILABLE THANKS TO OUR KEY PARTNERS

Business Consulting Change Management Customized Training External Content Assistance with International Deployment

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IVALUA FRANCE69, rue de Paris91400 Orsay

IVALUA INC.702 Marshall Street Suite 520Redwood City, CA, USA 94063 Toll free : +1 (866) 795-8982 info@ivalua.com

V8 THE COMPLETE, INTERGRATED, & MODULAR SOLUTION wITH INTUITIVE USER FRIENDLY DESIGN

To effectively respond to the

challenges of today’s business

world, Procurement Managers need

easy-to-use collaborative tools.

Designed with the most cutting edge

technology, Ivalua Buyer V8 provides

a set of built-in solutions including

remote access from mobile devices,

a simplif ied user interface, enhanced

analytics and easy integration

with existing information systems.

Ivalua Buyer V8 bundles these features

together into a single tool providing

quick and lasting adoption by users.

Built on a completely modular

architecture, Ivalua Buyer V8 gives

maximum f lexibility to users by offering

the choice between SaaS or self hosting

with the option of implementing

the standard version of the product

or a customized implementation.

OLAP Cube Purchasing reports

Data normalization and consistency tools

Individualized data analysis tailored to each business user

Robust and secure architecture built on Microsoft .NET technology

Proven spend management processes built on a strong underlying code base

AdMINIStRAtIoNOur powerful system administration tool, called Ivalua Platform, provides the ability to manage items across the application, including user authorizations, access rights, languages, currencies, business data, navigation and screen layouts. The underlying structure of Ivalua Platform consists of:

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Design process flows specific to each organization that include the right people at the right time.

Build custom-made analyses, indicators and queries without the

need of programming.

Modify the screens, forms, templates, fields, visibility and accessibility to any functional area in the suite.

Use EAI to tie together ETL, Query, WebServices, EDI/XML and other integration tools

Manage secure access for users, password controls, and leverage outside Single Sign On or LDAP resources.

Share views and comments across internal buyer users and suppliers

about different objects and processes.

Manage documents in a Content Repository including supplier credentials, contract exhibits, order attachments and

many others.

Business Network: Take advantage of the Ivalua Business Network

to ensure reliable data from suppliers.

CoMPLEtE & ModULAR SUItE

A complete Spend Management

toolset

An entirely web-based application with worldwide access guaranteed

Built-in localization capabilities including language and currency support

Our Purchasing Intelligence modules enable users to easily capture, consolidate and retrieve purchasing data such as invoices, purchase orders, income statements, and supplier evaluations in a single application. Our Purchasing Intelligence solution further optimizes the purchasing cycle by providing:

Our e-Sourcing modules allow users and stakeholders to collaboratively manage the entire procurement process end-to-end, from requirements gathering, supplier selection, RFP and auction management to the final issued contract. Our e-Sourcing solution further optimizes the procurement cycle by providing:

Time savings and improved throughput for buyers and suppliers

An enhanced procurement toolset including RFI, RFP and reverse auction tools

A dedicated module for specialized spend management processes around complex, services-based categories

Our SRM solution is the cornerstone of Ivalua Buyer. It is composed of multiple product modules that structure and segment supplier data, providing solid supplier analytics. Our SRM solution further optimizes supplier management by providing:

A single supplier repository built on data feeds from internal and external sources

Cutting-edge performance evaluations and supplier risk management tools

A dynamic and easy-to-use supplier portal

Our e-Procurement modules allow users to efficiently manage the entire procurement process from importing supplier catalogs to handling purchase orders, managing fulfillment, and processing invoices and receipts. Our e-Procurement solution provides the following additional optimizations:

One portal for all purchase orders

Purchase orders in 3 clicks

Approval workflow: configurable for diverse audiences, automated routing, parallel tracks and lifecycle management

Ivalua Buyer allows for the management of contracts and catalogs within a single, common application for all users:

Contract drafting in a collaborative mode, dynamic management of clauses, key milestone alerts, archiving and reporting.

Automatic loading and updating of suppliers’ catalogs from diverse formats (Punch-out, etc), fault management, price management, descriptive listings and comparative tables.

ULtRA FLEXIBLE

Custom deployments: Implement

only the required modules

Vast configuration capabilities

Self-hosting, single-instance ASP,

or SaaS hosting available, as well

as cloud hosting

RAPId dEPLoYMENt

Rapid design-to-deployment

cycles

Seamless integration with existing information systems

Ongoing upgrades: quickly activate additional modules when needed

Purchasing Intelligence

IVALUA BUYERe-Sourcing

SRM

e-ProcurementContracts & Catalogues

CUStoMER REFERENCES

"The Ivalua Technology promises to provide whirlpool with advanced capabilities and efficiencies that support our efforts to drive Global standardized processes and integrated end to end solutions that will improve the experience of both whirlpool associates and our valued supply base."

Blaine Hurley, whirlpool

whirlpool, ArcelorMittal, Honeywell, CACI, Del Taco, Beacon, Total, Michelin, Technip, Veolia, Orange, Areva, Jarden, Valeo, Spie, Seb, Beneteau, Faurecia, PSA Peugeot Citroen, Bakcell, Bull, Covea, Havi.