Learn how UpperEdge helps clients optimally structure their strategic IT partnerships and maximize these relationships to generate greater value with less risk.
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ERP Package Selection & Negotiation
Life Sciences Firm Enables Growth with Right Partner & Right Deal
To enable the achievement of long-term growth targets and strategic business goals, a leading manufacturer of life sciences and clinical diagnostics products decided to implement a new ERP platform. But given the urgency of several key organizational objectives and a range of competing business challenges, the company required intelligence and guidance for the RFP, evaluation, selection, and negotiation process.
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ERP Provider Negotiation
Divested Entity Reduces Costs & Creates Strategic Alignment through Supplier Intelligence
In divesting from its parent company, a global provider of optoelectronics needed to enter into a short-term transition services agreement for continued use and support of its ERP system until a system and services could be brought in-house. This transition required expertise to negotiate the software license and support agreement.
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System Integrator Selection & Negotiation
Consumer Products Company Streamlines the Sourcing Process & Reduces Project Risk
A large consumer products company sought to implement an ERP system to reduce costs, boost operational transparency, and improve process efficiency. But, to meet its goals, the Company had to navigate a range of significant challenges necessitating precise intelligence and expertise to guide the RFP, evaluation and selection process.
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System Integrator Selection & Negotiation
Industrial Wholesaler Secures Best-in-Class Contract
A leading wholesaler of industrial equipment sought lower costs, improved process efficiency, and operational transparency from a new ERP system. The company had limited experience and expertise in evaluating ERP system integrators, requiring advice throughout RFP, evaluation, selection, and negotiation process.
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ERP Renegotiation
Utility Eliminates Shelfware, Increases Flexibility, Achieves $1M+ in Savings
One of the largest utility companies in the U.S. strengthened a critical strategic relationship with a major ERP provider, while simultaneously saving $1 million on maintenance costs, reducing downstream risk and increasing long-term flexibility.
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Sole-Source Provider Negotiation
Actionable Market Intelligence Delivers Cost Optimization for Retailer
A Fortune 50 retailer used objective insights, market data and comprehensive execution strategies to streamline its sourcing processes, optimize IT costs, improve systems integration and increase deployment agility.
