MeRLIN Sourcing - Strategic Sourcing Simplified

Who we are and What we do?

We connect people and technology to simplify Strategic Sourcing

MeRLIN Sourcing is headquartered in Maastricht, Netherlands and was founded in 2018. Our go-to-market industries include Automotive, Manufacturing Industries, EPC companies, Oil & Gas and Public Sector enterprises, with a focus on Continental Europe, North America and MEAI.

MeRLIN is focused on providing innovative solutions to the complex procurement challenges faced by organizations. As a strategic sourcing software company, our goal is to bring technological innovation and best practices to your sourcing and procurement processes. This allows your procurement teams to focus on strategic activities to enable them to act in a more flexible and agile manner. Our strategic sourcing solution MeRLIN helps you to flexibly configure and accelerate purchasing processes and ensure sustainable savings and compliance. MeRLIN is modular, flexible, configurable and easy to implement. It is a SaaS solution available on Microsoft Azure Cloud.

MeRLIN Sourcing - the technology for innovative procurement teams

MeRLIN Sourcing was founded in 2018 with the goal of developing a compelling technology driven solution to key strategic sourcing challenges for global enterprises. The idea was born in collaboration with a Fortune 500 automotive supplier that needed a comprehensive, fully digitized sourcing solution for their procurement team.

MeRLIN Sourcing manages complex global supplier relationships, reduces risk within the supply chain, helps you understand cost drivers to create long-term value. It enables companies to increase productivity, develop new products more easily and quickly, and respond quickly to the changing business environment and ensure compliance with legislation (CSRD – ESG- LKSG).

MeRLIN Sourcing is a source-to-procure platform. It handles all the components of a strategic sourcing suite such as supplier management, category management, sourcing project management to support strategic initiatives, contract lifecycle management, compliance and risk management, analytics and e-sourcing. It has an integration layer for third-party solutions and can be used for guided sourcing to make better sourcing decisions. It also has the procure part of P2P, as well as invoicing and credit notes. In addition to standard procurement functionality, MeRLIN offers supply management, planning, ASN integration, BOM support and more. MeRLIN offers ESG functionality to address the requirements of the German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG – Lieferkettensorgfaltspflichtengesetz).

Strategic Sourcing Simplified

Our Vision

Bringing Strategic Sourcing within reach of every Buyer & become one of top 10 Strategic Sourcing Solution globally

Our Mission

To simplify, automate and infuse intelligence into the Strategic Sourcing process of enterprises achieving measurable business benefits within the first year of implementation by accompanying your company in the journey of procurement digital transformation

MeRLIN – Strategic Sourcing Simplified

Strategy

Analyze variables and take data driven decisions to evaluate, formulate and deploy innovative strategies for long-term success

Sustainability

Integrate sustainability to your supplier selection to minimizie the negative impact on the environment and society

Collaboration

Bring all stakeholders in the business process into a common platform and enable real-time communication

Compliance

Enhance compliance across procurement processes to reduce business risks

Intelligence

Get actionable insights and suggestions during the business process steps to improve the efficacy and success rate of decisions

Integration

Integrate the enterprise through bi-directional flow of data between MeRLIN and other systems

Vetri Selvan

Founder & CEO - Member of Advisory board

Vetri celebrated three years as CEO of MeRLIN Sourcing in June 2023. His vision spearheaded the transformation of the company internally through modernization and HR transformation and externally with the promise of delivering value to customers and putting them at the heart of the MeRLIN Sourcing business and product development strategy.

Vetri built his career in global software businesses over the last decades. Seasoned professional with a global perspective, spanning the Americas, Europe, and Asia, and a diverse industry background across EPC, Defense, manufacturing, automotive, and life sciences industries.

A firm believer in the principles of doing well by doing good, he won his two awards as the IT Executive of 2014-2015 and 2016-2017 in Europe. He is a highly regarded global thought leader in the IT and cloud software industries and is an active investor/advisor for emerging companies. He is known as a leader who builds and motivates world class teams, champions diversity, and exudes a deep passion for how technology can transform the workplace and empower individuals.

Dr. Werner Breuers

Member of Advisory board

Dr. Werner Breuers completed his studies in chemistry at the RWTH Aachen University with a doctorate. He began his professional career in 1989 as a chemist at Hoechst AG in Frankfurt in the research and development department.

After managerial positions at Hoechst AG, Dr. Breuers took over management of the license and catalyst business at the polyethylene manufacturer Elenac GmbH in Kehl in 1999, which became part of the Basell group a year later. As a member of Basell’s Executive management team, he headed the global Technology Business division based in Milan and most recently served as President of Basell Polyolefins Europe based in Amsterdam.

Dr. Breuers has also been a member of the Board of Management of LANXESS AG since May 14, 2007 and was responsible for the Performance Polymers and Advanced Intermediates business units. His responsibilities and strategic operations also include the functional areas of Global Procurement & Logistics, Innovation & Technology and Industrial & Environmental Affairs. He has been board of several other companies and has also served as trustee of RWTH Aachen University and currently advising and supportinfg the growth of MeRLIN Sourcing in Europe.

Oliver Scheffert

Member of Advisory board

Oliver Scheffert is an experienced entrepreneur with a successful completed doctoral program in business administration and a master’s degree in International Business Studies. He held management positions at Microsoft for nearly 13 years, receiving prestigious awards for exceptional leadership and results like the Circle of Excellence Platinum Award. Notably, Oliver led the ISV business unit in Germany to a billion-dollar revenue stream.

He later served as the General Manager/Managing Director at Aparavi Software Europe GmbH and recently founded CNSLT Partners GmbH, a strategy and management consultancy, leveraging his extensive specialist knowledge to help IT companies achieve lasting success.

Category Management

Analytics

Supplier Relationship Management

German Supply Chain Due Diligence Act (LkSG)

Contract Management

eProcurement

Strategic Sourcing

Platform

Automotive

Discrete Manufacturing

Oil & Gas, EPC

Public Sector

Direct Sourcing

Spend Rationalization

Research and Development

Workflow Management

Procurement Digitization

Procurement Audits

Supplier Lifecycle Management

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