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Procurement Center of Excellence

Optimize everything from people to technology.

A Procurement Center of Excellence turns fragmented buying into a governed, measurable capability. Premikati builds yours: transformation, change management, process improvement, and technology implementation, delivered by practitioners who have run procurement themselves.

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No sales pressure. The consult is a working session with a procurement practitioner.
What a Premikati CoE delivers
Potential ROI on your procurement software investmentUp to 2.5x
Practice areas, from people to technology4
Platform focus: SAP Ariba, exclusively100%
Procurement Center of Excellence | Premikati
Why procurement leaders trust the partner behind the CoE

Maximize ROI for your Ariba investment.

How do you get excellent results from your investment? By having the right partner in your corner. Three things set Premikati's Center of Excellence apart.

Premikati's staff are SAP Ariba experts with previous experience as procurement, finance, and contract management professionals for both mid-market and large enterprises. That combination gives you everything you need under one roof: the platform depth to configure the realm correctly, and the operating experience to know what the configuration should accomplish.

One roof
Procurement, finance, contract management, and SAP Ariba platform expertise on a single accountable team.

Whether you need a block of hours to adjust your current SAP Ariba realm or would like to outsource realm administration entirely, Premikati's services are fully scalable. Start with a targeted fix, grow into ongoing optimization, or hand over the administrative load completely. The engagement flexes with your team, not the other way around.

Hours to full scope
From a block of configuration hours to fully outsourced realm administration, on the same team.

Premikati works exclusively with SAP Ariba, using that laser focus to dive deep without being distracted by other technologies. No split attention across a dozen platforms, no generalists learning your stack on your dime. The team that builds your CoE spends every engagement inside the ecosystem your procurement function runs on.

100%
Of Premikati's platform practice is SAP Ariba. Depth over breadth, by design.
Why do you need a Center of Excellence?

To maximize your procurement technology and your people.

A CoE is the difference between owning procurement software and getting full value from it. Three outcomes mature CoE organizations consistently capture.

Up to 2.5x higher ROI on your procurement software investment.

Most organizations use a fraction of what they license. A CoE closes the gap between the capability you pay for and the capability your teams actually use.

Operate at lower cost than typical procurement organizations.

Standardized processes, automated workflows, and governed buying channels cut the cost of every transaction the function touches.

Increase spend influenced and managed by procurement.

When the function is easy to buy through and hard to buy around, maverick spend shrinks and procurement's seat at the table grows with it.

Premikati's Procurement and Ariba Center of Excellence

Four practice areas. One permanent capability.

Engage the full CoE or the practice area where the gap is widest. Every engagement is built to leave your organization stronger than it found it. Click a card for the detailed scope.

Outcome: a procurement function built for value

Procurement transformation

Procurement transformation has been a topic for years, and there is still plenty of work to be done. An effective procurement organization brings significant value to its internal stakeholders.

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Detailed scope: complete transformation projects spanning people, processes, and technology, with experienced staff guiding operating model design, governance, and capability build.
Outcome: change that sticks

Change management

Equip your company to drive and sustain change through a holistic diagnosis of organizational risk and readiness, stakeholder management, and strategic communication.

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Detailed scope: risk and readiness diagnosis, stakeholder management and strategic communication plan design and execution, targeted workforce transition programs that prepare employees for success in their new environment.
Outcome: a core capability, not a one-time fix

Process improvement

Leading companies strive for continuous process improvement to create value and competitive advantage in a complex and uncertain market.

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Detailed scope: methods, tools, and experience to establish a core process improvement capability inside your organization, built to evolve continuously as business needs change.
Outcome: technology that fits how you work

Technology implementation

Whether you are implementing one module or a full procurement suite, Premikati brings staff who handle the technical implementation and make sure the technology fits your unique needs.

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Detailed scope: module and full-suite implementations, technical configuration, integration, and adoption enablement that aligns the platform to your processes rather than the other way around.
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Why Premikati

Experts who have been procurement professionals themselves.

Premikati is a WBENC-certified Woman-Owned Business of procurement experts providing best-in-class software and services to maximize your company's ROI.

When you choose Premikati, you are not opting for yet another consulting firm. You are partnering with experts who have been procurement professionals themselves and are dedicated to your success.

We guide you at every step, from implementation to support, to help you maximize the benefits of your SAP Ariba solution.

The model, defined

What is a Procurement Center of Excellence?

A Procurement Center of Excellence is a dedicated function that sets standards, governs processes, and drives continuous improvement across an organization's procurement operations. It serves as the operational and strategic hub for procurement policy, technology optimization, supplier governance, and performance measurement.

Rather than leaving procurement execution fragmented across business units, a CoE creates consistent, scalable practices that increase spend influence, reduce maverick buying, and deliver measurable ROI from procurement technology investments like SAP Ariba.

Two ways to engage

Start with a working session, or start with the service details.

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A working session with a Premikati procurement practitioner, not a sales rep. Bring your current state. Leave with a framed CoE recommendation and a phased path to get there.

  • Current-state review across people, process, and technology
  • Practice-area recommendation and phased roadmap
  • Clarity on CoE vs BPO vs AMS for your situation
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Download the service details

The full Premikati services overview in one document, ready to share with your procurement, finance, and IT stakeholders before the conversation starts.

  • All four CoE practice areas in detail
  • How CoE work connects to implementation and AMS
  • A starting point to bring into the consult
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Frequently asked

Answers from the calls procurement leaders are already having.

What is a Procurement Center of Excellence and what does it actually do?+
A Procurement Center of Excellence (CoE) is a dedicated function that sets standards, governs processes, and drives continuous improvement across an organization's procurement operations. It serves as the operational and strategic hub for procurement policy, technology optimization, supplier governance, and performance measurement. Rather than leaving procurement execution fragmented across business units, a CoE creates consistent, scalable practices that increase spend influence, reduce maverick buying, and deliver measurable ROI from procurement technology investments like SAP Ariba.
How does PREMIKATI's CoE engagement differ from a standard consulting project?+
A standard consulting project delivers recommendations and leaves. A CoE engagement builds a permanent capability inside your organization: standards, governance, playbooks, trained people, and a technology environment configured to support all of it. Premikati practitioners work alongside your team with structured knowledge transfer built into the plan, so the capability stays when the engagement ends.
What does 'up to 2.5x higher ROI on procurement software investment' mean in practice?+
Most organizations license far more capability than their teams actually use. Industry benchmarking consistently shows that organizations with mature CoE governance realize substantially more value from procurement suites: higher user adoption, more spend flowing through the platform, stronger contract and catalog compliance, and fewer broken workflows. The 2.5x figure reflects the gap between licensed capability and utilized capability that a CoE is built to close. It is a directional benchmark, and a scoping consult is where the number gets specific to your environment.
Who within our organization should sponsor a CoE engagement?+
The strongest CoE engagements are sponsored by the CPO or CFO, because a CoE spans people, process, and technology decisions that cross departmental lines. A VP of Procurement or Supply Chain can sponsor effectively with executive air cover. Premikati structures governance so procurement, finance, and IT stakeholders each have a defined seat, which prevents the CoE from becoming one department's side project.
What does PREMIKATI's change management capability include?+
A holistic diagnosis of your organization's risk and readiness, the design and execution of a stakeholder management and strategic communication plan, and a targeted workforce transition program to prepare employees for success in their new environment. Change management is embedded in every CoE practice area rather than bolted on at the end, because adoption is where procurement transformations succeed or fail.
Does PREMIKATI's CoE work extend to SAP Ariba realm administration and optimization?+
Yes. Premikati's services are fully scalable, from a block of hours to adjust your current SAP Ariba realm to fully outsourced realm administration. Premikati works exclusively with SAP Ariba, which means the team optimizing your realm is not splitting attention across competing platforms. For ongoing operational support with defined SLAs, this work is typically structured under Premikati's Application Managed Services.
How does PREMIKATI approach process improvement within a CoE engagement?+
Premikati brings the methods, tools, and experience to establish process improvement as a core capability inside your organization, not as a one-time cleanup. Engagements typically start by baselining current processes against leading practice, prioritizing improvements by value and effort, and then building the measurement and governance discipline that lets your team continue evolving processes as business needs change.
Can PREMIKATI support a CoE build if we are mid-implementation or have recently gone live on SAP Ariba?+
Yes, and that timing is often ideal. Standing up CoE governance while an implementation stabilizes means standards, training, and adoption discipline are in place before bad habits form. For organizations already live, a CoE engagement typically begins with a realm and process assessment to establish the baseline, then sequences improvements from there.
What industries and organization types does PREMIKATI's CoE work span?+
Premikati works with mid-market and large enterprise organizations across manufacturing, food and beverage production, healthcare systems, higher education, energy and utilities, retail supply chains, and financial services. The team's prior experience as procurement, finance, and contract management professionals means the CoE model adapts to regulated purchasing, multi-location spend, and complex supplier bases rather than assuming a single template fits every industry.
How is a CoE engagement scoped and what does the path to engagement look like?+
It starts with a consult: a working session with a Premikati procurement practitioner, not a sales rep. From there, Premikati frames a current-state assessment across people, process, and technology, then proposes a phased roadmap with defined milestones and outcomes. Engagements scale from targeted practice-area work to a full CoE build, and pricing follows scope rather than a one-size-fits-all rate.
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