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Evaluating Your e-procurement Solution: Start with the End-User Presented by The Shelby Group & Vinimaya

Today s Agenda Page 1 Presenter Introductions Polling Question A Vendor-Agnostic Approach to e-procurement About Shelby & Vinimaya Top 3 Scenarios Customer Examples Upcoming Events Contact Information Confidential

Presenters Background Page 2 Scott Satchell Regional Sales Manager Vinimaya has over ten years of sales leadership experience and e-procurement industry expertise. Prior to joining Vinimaya, Inc., Scott served as Regional Sales Manager at Perfect Commerce. As Regional Sales Manager, Scott is responsible for pursuing sales and business development efforts for Vinimaya. Constantine Limberakis Director Business Development The Shelby Group has over ten years of experience in enterprise technologies spanning several industries. During his career, Constantine has worked in spend management consulting and product development. During this time, he has worked with many executives and thought-leaders in e-procurement. He currently leads all marketing activities within The Shelby Group, and actively collaborates with leading analysts as well as conducting his own research in the evolution of e- Procurement 2.0. Confidential

Quick Poll: Page 3 Which scenario best describes your biggest challenge? A. I need to upgrade my e-procurement platform or move on B. Looking for a way to consolidate multiple e-procurement investments C. I am challenged by supplier enablement & supplier data management D. Other - please use the chat panel to describe Confidential

Defining e-procurement Page 4 APPLICATION FOCUSED - E-Procurement refers to Internet solutions that facilitate corporate purchasing. PROCESS FOCUSED - E-Procurement should be directed at improving performance for each of the five rights of purchasing, which are sourcing items: at the right price, delivered at the right time, are of the right quality, are of the right quantity, form the right source. PROJECT FOCUSED - E-Procurement is a series of steps-from the formulation of the purchasing corporate strategy to the actual strategy to the actual implementation of an Internet-based purchasing system. S.Ronchi, et al. What is the value of an IT e-procurement system? Journal of Purchasing & Supply Management. 2010. Confidential

An Agnostic Approach to e-procurement Pre-Deployment Post-Deployment Comparative Functionality Requisitioning / Shopping Cart Catalog Content & Search Workflow Order Generation & Routing System Integration Obtain Measurable Data Inputs Purchase Order Cost Administrative Cost Lead Time Cost Opportunity Cost Other Costs Evaluation Points Understand Available Platforms Application Service Provider (ASP) Behind-The-Firewall (BTF) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Supplier Network Centric Potential Benefits Purchasing Controls Spend Transparency Control of Maverick Spend Self-Service / Decentralization Supply Base Rationalization

An Agnostic Approach to e-procurement Pre-Deployment Post-Deployment Comparative Functionality Requisitioning / Shopping Cart Catalog Content & Search Workflow Order Generation & Routing System Integration Obtain Measurable Data Inputs Purchase Order Cost Administrative Cost Lead Time Cost Opportunity Cost Other Costs Evaluation Points Understand Available Platforms Application Service Provider (ASP) Behind-The-Firewall (BTF) Business Process Outsourcing (BPO) Software-As-A-Service (SaaS) Supplier Network Centric Potential Benefits Purchasing Controls Spend Transparency Control of Maverick Spend Self-Service / Decentralization Supply Base Rationalization

Success Factors in e-procurement Adoption Executive Support Executing Strategy & Vision Improving Efficiency Getting ROI Intuitive Process Consistent Messaging Brand Management End-User Experience Organizational Success Factors Business Needs Meeting Customer Need Improving Process Reducing Cost Supplier Collaboration Corporate Culture Relationship of Business & IT Geographic & Cultural Boundaries Project Perception

Basis for a Vendor-Agnostic Approach Page 8 As partners, Vinimaya and Shelby provide a vendor-agnostic approach to evaluating e-procurement. Technology Solution Professional Services One-stop shopping solution Solutions that deliver value to both Buyers and Suppliers Solution-independent connectivity to Suppliers Solution-independent federated catalog searching (Web 2.0) Focused on spend management challenges/issues Veterans in business process and technology Experience implementing leading Spend Management Solutions On-Premises & SaaS models

Vinimaya: A leader in Marketplace 2.0 technology Vinimaya was founded in 2000 Headquarters in Cincinnati Part of a very successful portfolio of technology companies Crested profitability in 2005

Vinimaya Helps Fortune 500 Customers Achieve Marketplace 2.0 What do they all have in common? All wanted to increase employee adoption of e-procurement to maximize spend under management All needed to reduce the time, effort, and cost associated with supplier enablement and content management

How does Vinimaya address these challenges? Vinimaya SMT provides a private, customized marketplace SmartAgents enable B2B shoppers to have a simple B2C shopping experience across multiple catalogs regardless of their backend e-procurement system or ERP. This is accomplished within the controls and supplier base defined by the organization. Less data management. More spend under management. Internet Vinimaya SMT SmartAgents Smart Catalog SaaS deployed and 100% portable Companies can change systems without retraining or loss of data

Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology Product Suite SmartSearch Punch-out Catalog Mgt. Requisition PO Approval Mgt. SmartTransport SmartAnalytics * Local Catalog Mgt. Document Transmission & Invoicing SmartAudit RFI / RFQ Procure-to-Pay Process Receiving & Payment SmartCatalog SmartAgent Supplier Management Supplier Performance / Price Compliance Reporting

What s unique about Vinimaya SMT? Federated Searching across catalogs with aggregated Search Results Very familiar B2C-like shopping tools and experience to all Buy-Side specific catalogs Can be enabled from any catalog source Online Supplier Hosted (Punch-out, OCI, Transactive Websites) Locally stored content Outsourced Punch-out Implementation and Management

Shelby Professional Services Page 14 Our Focus is 100% on Spend Management Focus on Spend Management Technology Complete range of Source-to-Pay Process and Technology expertise Awarded Supply & Demand Chain Provider (2010), Pro to Know (2009) Shelby Company Experience Implemented, upgraded, integrated and supported Fortune 500/1000 client applications in some of the most complex, global environments Independent advisory perspective coupled with the ability to integrate and deliver across diverse Best of Breed and ERP platforms Deep expertise in consulting methodologies, approaches and analysis Veteran Consulting talent Professionals with extensive business process and technology skills, and professional certifications. Average: 15 yrs Consulting, 10 yrs Spend Technology

Delivering successful e-procurement Page 15 Shelby provides a number approaches for evaluating & delivering e-procurement: Application focused: Subject Matter Experts in Ariba, SAP and other Tier1 applications. Agnostic focused programs on technology optimization and user adoption including: Strategy for Technology Adoption Business Process Alignment Program / Project Management Project Team / End User Training Communication Planning Performance and Measurement Platform Transition Planning Confidential

Marquee Client Experiences Page 16 Confidential

Industry & Thought Leadership Page 17 Shelby is connected with the leading Spend Management Analysts, Blog Spots, Research, Investment Banking & Publishers:

Top 3 Scenarios

Top 3 Scenarios Coming From F1000 Page 19 1. UPGRADE OR MOVE ON 2. CONSOLIDATE MULTIPLE E-PROCUREMENT INVESTMENTS 3. CHALLENGED BY SUPPLIER ENABLEMENT & SUPPLIER DATA MANAGEMENT Confidential

Scenario 1: Upgrade or Move On Page 20 CORE CHALLENGES: Dealing with current perceptions of the installed application Previous upgrade experience on the current platform Understanding impact of the eprocurement upgrade on other spend/erp solutions CONSIDERATIONS: Cost of the upgrade compared to replacement Opportunity for process improvement Benefits derived in the new version Continued investment in the existing vendor Benefits to buyer and suppliers I am facing a dramatic upgrade and may consider moving to another e-pro platform if I can t see the benefits, short or long-term. What are my options? I am also concerned about change management for end-users. Confidential

Upgrade or Move on - Customer Example Page 21 PROFILE: $4B FINANCIAL SERVICES COMPANY PRE-UPGRADE: Client running a best-of-breed footprint facing an Ariba 9r1 upgrade. Organization was also running Aravo (SIM), Xign (Invoicing), PeopleSoft (ERP). Company was at a decision and inflection point on how to proceed with the solutions currently running as part of the decision to upgrade. How do I maximize use of my existing technology investment to drive savings, end-user compliance and process efficiency? POST-UPGRADE: Leveraged the upgrade as a point to drive change within the organization Identified redundancies; areas where the applications were completely underutilized and very manual process which was fragmented Involved an assessment of tools, process and road mapping Standardized a 4- and 7-step sourcing methodology Created a contract management process that off-shore operations team can use Consolidated e-procurement application footprint and simplified for sourcing and contract management Confidential

Scenario 2: Consolidate Multiple e-procurement Investments Page 23 CORE CHALLENGES: Dealing with multiple e-procurement solutions that were selected for specific functionality needed at separate divisions at the company Strategic Sourcing department is concerned that contracted supplier data is too unwieldy the right information is not getting in front of the right buyers The typical End-User is frustrated and confused looking for ways to go around the system Need to tie the existing solutions together into one vendor-agnostic view that End Users find so intuitive they will want to use to the system to purchase items Corporate Procurement process is perceived as disjunct I need to consolidate multiple e-procurement solutions across my enterprise but every division wants to run their own system. How can I bring this together for all end users and leverage the existing solutions? CONSIDERATIONS: With so many users in various e-procurement systems, need a new, single user interface that is so simple it requires little to no End-User training Cost to find a front-end solution that can integrate multiple back-end e-procurement systems while maintaining the appropriate workflow based on the End-User s division Confidential

Consolidate Multiple e-procurement Investments - Customer Example Page 24 PROFILE: $32.2B MANUFACTURING COMPANY PRE-VINIMAYA IMPLEMENTATION: Several divisions of this multi-faceted manufacturing company were running different e-procurement platforms: Ariba Buyer, Oracle iprocurement, PeopleSoft eprocure, and SAP SRM. The Procurement leadership was looking for a way to create a single view for End Users that would provide access to all of their Supplier data (locally hosted and punch-out) and then route the requisitions for approval within the back-end system associated with the requisitioners respective divisions at the company. How do I maximize use of my multiple, existing technology investments to drive savings, increase overall end-user compliance to contracted corporate rates, and improve process efficiency? Can this be done with minimal End-User training? This is a good change and I don t like change! - Casual End-User When can we start using this product? POST-VINIMAYA IMPLEMENTATION: Within 60 business days, 78 punch-out Suppliers and 40 locally hosted catalog Suppliers are now accessible within one virtual, private marketplace for the company s 3K+ employees in 8 divisions. With SmartAgent technology in place, Procurement & IT resources no longer need to establish or maintain punch-out connections to the company s 100+ preferred Suppliers. Confidential - Buyer During Demo Vinimaya SMT is easy to use and implement. - e-procurement Project Lead

Scenario 3: Supplier Enablement & Data Management Issues Page 25 CORE CHALLENGES: Company growth = End-User and Supplier Base growth Supplier enablement and ongoing Supplier data management have proven to be slower, more resource intensive, and more costly than anticipated Punch-outs require IT resources to deploy and these are already stretched thin When the system is difficult to use, people go around it (less transactions = less savings) and the company does not achieve the ROI from its e-procurement investment The time and costs associated with supplier data management are staggering. As a result, we do not have enough of our suppliers on-boarded which is keeping us from achieving desired ROI with our current solution set. CONSIDERATIONS: Want to leverage the value-added features on Supplier websites but need to monitor Supplier data in the cloud Looking to create the most touchless ongoing catalog management process, reduce locally hosted catalog data, and establish automated connections to Supplier punch-outs Need a highly intuitive, Google-like user shopping experience that will achieve process compliance during rapid growth Confidential

Supplier Enablement & Data Management Issues Customer Examples Page 26 PROFILE: $7B SERVICES COMPANY PRE-VINIMAYA IMPLEMENTATION: This services organization had grown from $2B in revenues to over $7B in 10 years. Despite having a major ERP system in place, contract compliance was below 20%, special requests and maverick spending were rampant, and their growing End User base and Supplier base was compounding the issue. The Procurement Department was challenged by the time, effort, and costs associated with on-boarding Suppliers and maintaining locally housed catalogs. How do I maximize use of my existing technology investments to drive savings, increase end-user compliance, and improve process efficiency? POST-VINIMAYA IMPLEMENTATION: Vinimaya SMT is deployed at over 20 locations Company experienced a 50% increase in contract compliance Currently 40% of total purchase transactions are touchless (estimate $30 savings per transaction) Company experienced a 33% reduction in time spent on placing orders and a 40% reduction in FTE headcount for catalog management $3M annual hard dollar savings -- ROI > 35% Confidential The Vinimaya solution is integrated across our system of 20 hospitals and hundreds of physician practices. We experienced terrific improvements in contract compliance and reduction in maverick spend. This technology has been a key enabler for us. - Chief Supply Chain Officer

Supplier Enablement & Data Management - Customer Examples Page 27 PROFILE: TOP 5 LEADING FINANCIAL ORGANIZATION PRE-ENGAGEMENT: Needed to understand the underlying issues to the problems from supplier onboarding to how internal processes for managing supplier data was being handled. Our goal is to obtain a set of recommendation to improve the entire supplier enablement process. POST-ENGAGEMENT: Looked at process involved with supplier enablement including: Sourcing, Supplier On-Boarding, Supplier Information Management, Vendor Master, Catalog Strategy, Purchases over network) Revamping process we discovered to help them with policy Determined mandating use versus freedom to use for who gets involved Not enough involvement from sourcing team See that the supplier enablement structure needed revamping How can we change the way you enforce the supplier on-ramping to conform Example: CRV process example; Get visibility into enablements that have been made Confidential

Upcoming Events Aug./Sep. 2010 Page 28 August 19, 2010 Improving e-procurement Webinar Series: Latest AMR e-procurement Research Co-Presenter: Mickey North Rizza, AMR Contact Sales@Vinimaya.com to register. August 2010 (date TBD) CEO Dinner Chicago, IL Contact Sales@Vinimaya.com for more information. Ariba 9r1 Survey Coming August 2010! September 17, 2010 Shelby Webinar Series 9r1 Upgrade Planning Survey Results (Part 1) September 24, 2010 Shelby Webinar Series 9r1 Users Survey Results (Part 2) Contact climberakis@theshelbygroup.com for more information. Confidential

Contact Information Page 29 Constantine Limberakis Director of Business Development The Shelby Group O: 312.445.8556 M: 312.927.5769 E: climberakis@theshelbygroup.com www.theshelbygroup.com Mike Precia VP Sales & Marketing Vinimaya, Inc. O: 262.252.8834 M: 262.951.6296 E: mprecia@vinimaya.com www.vinimaya.com sales@vinimaya.com Confidential

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Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology Moves All Stakeholders from Marketplace 1.0 End Users This solution is too complex! I can t find the goods & services I need quickly and easily. Why isn t my online shopping experience at work as straightforward as it at home? They want us to buy smarter but this system doesn t have any tools to compare items. Procurement & Finance There is too much time, effort, and cost associated with supplier data management. We spent all this money to put a solution in place and uses go around it! Less transactions = less savings. I want to use supplier website content but how can I effectively audit data that s in the cloud? Suppliers Buyers expect us to do all the heavy lifting to be a part of their system. We could drive more sales if buyers would leverage our website content but I don t have the resources for punch-outs. If I m being charged transaction fees, this will be factored into the Buyers costs.

Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology Moves All Stakeholders from Marketplace 1.0 End Users This solution is too complex! I can t find the goods & services I need quickly and easily. Why isn t my online shopping experience at work as straightforward as it at home? They want us to buy smarter but this system doesn t have any tools to compare items. Procurement & Finance There is too much time, effort, and cost associated with supplier data management. We spent all this money to put a solution in place and uses go around it! Less transactions = less savings. I want to use supplier website content but how can I effectively audit data that s in the cloud? Suppliers Buyers expect us to do all the heavy lifting to be a part of their system. We could drive more sales if buyers would leverage our website content but I don t have the resources for punch-outs. If I m being charged transaction fees, this will be factored into the Buyers costs.

Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology Moves All Stakeholders from Marketplace 1.0 End Users This solution is too complex! I can t find the goods & services I need quickly and easily. Why isn t my online shopping experience at work as straightforward as it at home? They want us to buy smarter but this system doesn t have any tools to compare items. Procurement & Finance There is too much time, effort, and cost associated with supplier data management. We spent all this money to put a solution in place and uses go around it! Less transactions = less savings. I want to use supplier website content but how can I effectively audit data that s in the cloud? Suppliers Buyers expect us to do all the heavy lifting to be a part of their system. We could drive more sales if Buyers would leverage our website content but I don t have the resources for punch-outs. If I m being charged transaction fees, this will be factored into the Buyers costs.

Vinimaya Smart Marketplace Technology TO MARKETPLACE 2.0 End Users Finally! This is EASY. One search field crawls ALL of our supplier data. I love the SmartCompare shopping tool so does my boss. She knows I am making the most informed purchases. This is as simple to use as Amazon.com. Procurement & Finance Dynamic, realtime supplier data that my group doesn t have to maintain! No more end user training hassles. Users get this system! MORE transactions = MORE savings. We have our own virtual, private marketplace -- complete with tools to audit real-time Supplier data in the cloud. Suppliers We became an on-boarded Supplier within 2 business days! We didn t even need to coordinate with the Buyer. Buyers are clearly using the valuable data on our website sales are up! No transaction fees. No networks. I love it.