Organizations using MeRLIN often realize immediate benefits such as eliminating duplicate suppliers, consolidating volumes for better pricing, enforcing compliance with preferred suppliers, and cutting non-strategic spend. MeRLIN accelerates these wins through automated insights and supplier visibility.
MeRLIN supports ESG-focused procurement by helping you consolidate suppliers around those who meet compliance and sustainability criteria. This reduces redundancy, strengthens ethical sourcing, and ensures that cost efficiency aligns with sustainability commitments.
MeRLIN is designed to make spend rationalization an ongoing process. While initial projects deliver quick wins like eliminating duplicate suppliers, continuous monitoring through MeRLIN ensures sustained savings, better compliance, and agility in responding to changing business needs.
With MeRLIN, ROI is tracked through analytics dashboards that measure supplier base reduction, contract compliance, cost savings from consolidation, and improved contract utilization. This provides direct visibility into financial impact and makes it easier to demonstrate value to stakeholders.
MeRLIN integrates Bill of Materials data at the part- and component-level with supplier quotes, contracts, and category spend. This enables visibility into granular cost drivers, comparison across suppliers, and identification of high-impact cost-saving opportunities.
MeRLIN’s nine-box analysis plots suppliers on performance vs. strategic value. This helps you distinguish transactional vendors from strategic partners, prioritize supplier development, identify risks in critical categories, and align sourcing strategies accordingly.
MeRLIN’s Supplier 360 consolidates financial, performance, risk, and compliance data into a single profile. By linking this data with spend categories and contract history, procurement teams can rationalize supplier bases, avoid duplication, and drive strategic consolidation.
With MeRLIN, procurement efficiency is tracked through spider chart analysis across KPIs like cycle time, compliance rate, contract utilization, and supplier performance. This lets you benchmark procurement maturity and pinpoint where process improvements deliver measurable ROI.
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 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 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.
