Zycus was clear choice because of their innovative technology that can help us create visibility over multilingual spend data,” said Danny Pieters, Global Purchasing Director at Bekaert. “This coupled with the ease of use of their solution and a very responsive delivery and support team allowed us to make the choice of partnering with them to achieve our goals.

With increased adoption of GSA Advantage!, the Federal Government will potentially save millions of dollars from purchase transactions in products and services. The Zycus' Spend Data Management software integrated with the GSA Advantage! system, will automatically help categorize more than five million product and services data within the system to UNSPSC standards, and help people find what they need more easily,” said Mr. Al Iagnemmo, director of e-business for the FSS.

By using AutoClass we are able to unlock information about our MRO spend which is already buried in our transaction systems" said David Lapish, Head of Unilever's Information Management Team. "The information is of a depth and quality which our Supply Management group has not had available before. It will enable us to realise savings from avoiding unnecessary purchases and by concentrating spend with preferred suppliers.

Our aim is to accelerate ROI and reduce the sourcing cycle time significantly through the automation of our sourcing programs.” said Thierry Bellicaud, European Co-packing and packaging Manager in BIC. “Zycus Strategic Sourcing was an obvious choice as it is robust and easy to use. We really like the Web 2.0 technology with its drag-n-drop based RFQ creation, “what if” analysis, scoring of responses and flexible bid analysis functionality.” he added.

Draka is very impressed with Zycus’ technology & flexibility, and responsiveness was a key factor in our selection.

Zycus implemented the solution under extreme time pressures to meet Orkla’s overall plan of reducing spend by approximately 850 M NOK by 2008.” says Edgar Heitmann, Sr. Project Manager at Orkla ASA. “We continue to realize sustainable savings with Zycus’ Spend Analysis solution.

Draka was very impressed with Zycus’ flexibility, and responsiveness was a key factor in our selection,” said Robert Van Motman, Draka’s Director of Procurement. “Zycus is helping us achieve our key goals of managing categories on the global level more effectively and running successful sourcing events. We also expect process improvements through the automation and standardized view of spend analysis across the enterprise.

This system will make it possible for Orkla to create substantial value and revolutionise the possibilities for collaboration between Group companies. We can see what each company buys, on what conditions, and from which supplier. Until now, procurement and Strategic Sourcing has largely been carried out by individual companies, without exploiting our aggregate strength as a group in relation to the supplier market," points out Orkla Project Manager Edgar Heitmann.

Zycus was an easy choice” says Bruce Myers, Managing Director, Logiworx Pty Ltd. “Zycus offers easy-to-use, best-of-breed solutions for key spend management processes, including: Data Enrichment, Spend Visibility, e-Sourcing and Contract Management. Our customers expect Logiworx to bring cutting edge strategies and solutions that address their challenges, so the Zycus partnership clearly supports our objective to become thought leaders in spend management while complimenting our extensive supply chain consulting and services offering.

Through Zycus’ capabilities, we are able to quickly identify a large amount of spend for which we had not previously had visibility,” said Michelle Holliday-Levy, Sigma-Aldrich’s Director of Global Procurement. “Zycus is helping us take fragmented views of spend and consolidate that data onto a single dashboard, enabling us to more efficiently and effectively negotiate contracts with our suppliers.

Zycus was a natural selection as it offered a robust tried and tested solution that offers excellent spend visibility extending to line item level.

Zycus brought a distinct advantage to the project due to its inherent strengths in spend analysis and data classification across languages. This initiative is part of our five year Procurement Transformation initiative with multi-year global savings targets.

Zycus was a natural choice as Zycus offers best-of-breed solutions for key spend management processes, including: Data Enrichment, Spend Visibility, Sourcing Planning, and e-Sourcing execution. Our customers demand that Nitor brings cutting edge spend management strategies & solutions to the table, so the Zycus partnership is clearly inline with our strategic objective to remain the thought leaders in the spend management space.

One of Covisint's roles is to drive the industry toward standards. Our relationship with Zycus will enable us to help our customers deploy their catalog activities faster and more efficiently, speeding their ability to generate revenue through Covisint..

Zycus was selected for its ability to accurately classify spend data both in batch mode and real time at the point of requisition, which is fundamental to drive detailed and repeatable historical spend analysis as well as monitor real-time spend compliance.

Products from companies such as Zycus have the ability to handle a wide variety of data and extract rich information, irrespective of the quality and descriptiveness of each client's spend data. This gives us the flexibility to meet the discerning clients specific demands and objectives.

In order to be more broadly adopted, sourcing tools need easier to use functionality for constructing requests, evaluating bids, and archiving the results of events in a searchable fashion. The inclusion of strategic sourcing plan development within a sourcing application has the potential to enable purchasing organizations to more cleanly execute to plan.

Incoherence between spend data in the two disparate databases was restricting information flow across the supply chain processes. We needed an automated solution that would granularly classify the records, extract attribute information and help us identify the possible overlap between our internal system records and vendor catalogs by means of attribute detail comparison. Zycus' SDM not only provided us with a solution for cross referencing based on attribute information, but also helped us cut down on the duplicates.

By classifying all purchasing transactions at the source, AutoClass should provide significant benefits in terms of increased data integrity, and superior sourcing decisions brought about by increased spend visibility .

Zycus' work enabled us to identify savings opportunities we would not have been able to see without aggregating across UNSPSC and supplier. In some areas, it revealed significant spend from core suppliers, but not in the areas where we had negotiated deals with them. In other areas, it revealed spend leakage with non-preferred suppliers. Finally, in a number of areas it revealed much larger spend than we realized we had - across way too many suppliers. All these things helped us to build a supply management plan that is enabling us to leverage our spend in the right areas with the right suppliers.

By using AutoClass we are able to unlock information about our MRO spend which is already buried in our transaction systems. The information is of a depth and quality which our Supply Management group has not had available before. It will enable us to realize savings from avoiding unnecessary purchases and by concentrating spend with preferred suppliers.

After a lengthy process of evaluation, Zycus was able to meet our requirements for product coding both in terms of performance criteria and cost effectiveness.

Because of the sheer volume and complexity of spend data within an enterprise, SDM must be enabled through use of business applications and services that automate labor-intensive classification, enhancement, and analysis activities and that can organize spend data at a detailed, attribute level — all on a repeatable basis.

Bearing Point has chosen to work with Zycus, amongst other tools, to allow us to be effective in meeting client specific demands. Each client situation and objective will be different and therefore it is important to us to be able to be flexible to meet different needs. Zycus has a tool which is very flexible and a committed staff to help meet various client needs. Their data consolidation and cleansing tool, which is also a learning tool, has strong functionality which is easily adaptable to clients varying levels of data availability. That is absolutely critical to a successful Spend Analysis Initiative.

With increased adoption of GSA Advantage!, the Federal Government will potentially save millions of dollars from purchase transactions in products and services. The Zycus SDM software integrated with the GSA Advantage! system, will automatically help categorize more than five million product and services data within the system to UNSPSC standards, and help people find what they need more easily.

I can now state that GE selected Zycus, Inc. for UNSPSC automated classification. Zycus competed in a field populated with such names as Mercado and SoftFace. Zycus won by a mile. GE chose Zycus because of its ability to rapidly (> 60,000 transaction records or SKUs/hr) and accurately (> 80%) classify free text purchase orders. Zycus is indeed "best in class" for UNSPSC classification.