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Strategic Procurement: The SAS Solution for Supplier Relationship Management
SAS
Fritz Lehman
SAS Institute, Inc.
Abstract:
The SAS Solutions for supplier relationship management (SRM) is a Web-based application designed to help procurement professionals understand how corporate money is being spent and how suppliers are being used. A ranking component enables procurement staff
to rank suppliers based on any set of available metrics. An optimization component computes an optimized supplier portfolio. Users can also perform ad hoc queries against the SRM warehouse.
This paper will identify the goals of strategic procurement and
illustrate how the SAS solution for SRM enables procurement professionals to achieve them. The Internet has changed the way people work. More and more SAS solutions are Internet based.
Attention will be given in this paper to the technology used in implem
enting this Web-based solution.
Biography: