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MeRLIN - Best Sourcing and Procurement Analytics Software

Uncover Sourcing and Procurement Opportunities using Intelligence provided by the Best Procurement Analytics Tool

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Merlin's best of breed real-time analytics capability gives you enterprise wide visibility to establish the best strategies and make smarter sourcing decisions that drive business excellence.

How can MeRLIN's Procurement Data Analytics Solution help you with end-to-end Sourcing, Supplier, Spend, and Purchasing Analytics?

Real time Procurement Analytics

Spend, Savings, Category and Supplier Analytics

Analytics for Direct Sourcing

BoM, Material Attributes and Project/Program Analytics

Reports and Dashboards

Standard, custom and self-service reports and dashboards

Advanced Analytics

Deeper insights like process efficiency & nine-box, slice and dice data cubes

Procurement and Sourcing Analytics Software for your Source to Pay Processes

MeRLIN’ s analytics gives a holistic view of your supply chain and helps improve the strategic quotient of sourcing feature-fold-section

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Spend and Savings Analytics

  • Discover spend and savings patterns across categories, suppliers and regions with drill-down analytics 
  • Out of the box PPV (Purchase Price Variance) analytics to recognize dynamics of commodities in the market 
  • Track your savings programs and measure realized savings with Program life cycle performance analytics
  • Accelerate decision making by identifying savings opportunities easily 
  • Compare budget vs actual spend and make course corrections 
  • Analyse buyer performance across regions, categories, locations
  • Analyse and compare supplier performance 
  • Gain deeper procurement insights such as spend by supplier for an item or category, region, currency etc.
  • Do Supplier-Category analysis to enhance strategic supplier planning
  • Identify risks or excessive dependencies and diversify supplier base
  • Take better buying decisions by evaluating performance, risks and bottlenecks
  • Undertake vendor consolidation activity

Supplier Analytics

Analytics for Direct Sourcing

  • Query for a part by part number, attribute, manufacturer or keyword  
  • Identify component and supplier bottlenecks & risks 
  • Monitor parts availability, changes and compliance 
  • Compare similar parts side by side
  • Review Bill of Material waterfall across various stage gates, identify leakages
  • View & compare version history of Bill of Material – addition, deletion of parts as well as price changes across the lifecycle
  • Summarize, slice and dice data with ability to browse sourcing data warehouse using simple drop downs
  • Create custom reports and dashboards and save them for future use
  • Browse data-warehouse cubes to slice & dice data
  • Zero in on problem areas with drill-down analytics 
  • Study Business Process Efficiency
  • Do Nine-Box Analysis of Supplier Rating vs Spend

Self-Service & Advanced Procurement Analytics MeRLIN Analytics

Webinars and Blogs

Make your supply chain smarter to Deal with Challenges & Risks

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How COVID-19 will change the design planning & operation of global supply chains

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Panel Discussion : Agile Procurement Practices in Dynamic Business Scenarios

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Factsheet

Uncover meaningful insights from your sourcing data and trends that translates to new opportunities for savings and growth.

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