SAS Institute and D&B Announce Solution To Facilitate Strategic
Purchasing Decisions
Unifying warehouse and decision support data saves purchasing dollars
SAS Institute Inc., the market leader in integrated data warehousing
and decision support, and D&B (NYSE: DNB), the world's leading provider
of business-to-business information, have developed an enterprise procurement
solution to support the strategic needs of procurement professionals
worldwide.
Unique Features and Benefits
The D&B and SAS enterprise procurement solution is unsurpassed as a
comprehensive procurement-decision support system and incorporates the
following:
- D&B data which, when combined with a customer's existing vendor
records, provides a cleansed and fortified decision support tool.
- Seamless information warehouse-based access to diverse data
sources on disparate platforms; it can either incorporate historical
legacy data or import data from ERP systems.
- Supported by the global combination of strength of world class
providers of data - D&B and SAS Institute business solutions.
- Via SAS Institute, it is the first enterprise procurement solution
from a data warehousing supplier to integrate the new world standard UN/SPSC global product
classification system. The UN/SPSC is emerging as a global standard
for classifying goods and services among corporate and government
purchasers
Managing the purchasing process helps companies to identify new vendors
that offer the lowest amount of risk, the best price and the required
level of quality and service. The D&B and SAS enterprise procurement
solution relies on data rationalization -- a step that helps bring about
increased efficiencies in sales transactions through improved financial
systems integration. The data rationalization process allows companies
to implement a common classification system for the products and services
they buy to more effectively manage their corporate purchases and expenditures.
