With Four51 technology, we are now able to explore new industries and really grow the company in a multitude of new directions.

- Four51 customer

Solutions

Let's start by reviewing what today's complex, highly-distributed businesses are dealing with. From companies with direct reps to retail and branch-based organizations to franchisors and VAR-based models, the squeeze is on. New economic realities mean that companies & brands must:

• Synchronize with social media conversations
• Eliminate dead cost from operations while maintaining service levels
• Solve problems with OpEx, because CapEx isn't available to buy or build solutions
• Leverage investments in existing technologies, such as Procurement and ERP systems
• Bring more spend under management without throttling innovation in the Field
• Maintain compliance with Brand and Legal standards

Four51's Smart Catalog Technology manages how your employees, sales reps, channel partners, branches, franchisees, etc., order and receive the indirect goods and supplies they need to do their jobs.

Is this a problem worth caring about?

Yes. This is a pain felt by many but often owned by no one. And it can be very expensive.

• Indirect spend (office products, printed material, promotional products, apparel, samples) totals 3% to 10% of typical enterprise revenue
• Manual processes and maverick spending cost companies ~$50 per transaction and put corporate purchasing contracts at risk
• Visibility into spend patterns and supplier performance is fragmented
• Brand integrity is compromised
• Client/Server enterprise spend management software and ERP systems do not scale to the desktop because of high costs and poor usability

Moreover, traditional requisition-to-reconciliation systems can't manage internal charge-backs or consolidate spend enterprise-wide. Supplier-sponsored technologies may seem like the answer, until your company has several of them. Consolidated reporting is impossible, and adoption falters because "there are six different systems and workflows for the five things I need to order..."

How is Four51 different?

Four51 solves the major problems that plague ERP, eProcurement and proprietary supplier-sponsored portals. Namely:

• Can't scale to the extended ecosystem desktop
• Difficult to use
• No consolidated view of indirect spend
• No unified, standard buying experience

In contrast, Four51 offers rapid, cost-effective deployment in 90 days or less via on-demand architecture. The system ensures brand integrity and timely delivery of messages - never again will new initiatives be undermined by obsolete inventory still in use in the Field

Four51 also strengthens supplier relationships and accommodates multi-vendor strategies in a single technology. It also eliminates non-value add activities and frees your most important asset: people