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Procurement & Vendor Management

What We Do: IT Asset Management

From Asset Data to Strategic Procurement Decisions

Effective ITAM knows that procurement isn’t just about price — it’s about long-term value, compliance, and control.

InSequence ITAM services focus on managing the procurement process and vendor relationships – ensuring the assets and the vendors your business depends on are fully utilized.

Command Your Spend.
Control Your Vendors.

ITAM doesn’t start after assets are procured.

Navigating ITAM is complex, high-stakes, and full of hidden risks without the right insight.

With the right IT asset data, you can negotiate smarter, renew with confidence, and build vendor partnerships that align with business strategy.

Our Procurement and Vendor Management services sit at the intersection of ITAM, finance, and sourcing. We help you bring discipline, transparency, and foresight into every asset purchase and renewal decision.

Expertise that Matters

  • Visibility into Upcoming Renewals
  • Data-backed Vendor Negotiations
  • Vendor and Contract Consolidation
  • Elimination of Shadow IT Purchases
  • Align IT, Procurement, and Finance

Use Cases

Vendor Management Fuels Modern Business

Renewal
Readiness

No Surprises. No Missed Opportunities.

When contracts come due, last-minute decisions can cost millions. Our services ensures you’re fully prepared—leveraging inventory data, usage insights, and financial alignment to guide every renewal with confidence and control.

Renewal Readiness Expertise

  • Contract Milestone Tracking
  • Renewal Calendar Visibility (30/60/90/120/180/365)
  • Pre-Negotiation Vendor Playbooks
  • Usage-Based Renewal Justification
  • License True-Up and Rightsizing
  • Stakeholder Alignment & Review
  • Integration with Procurement & CMDB
  • Budget Forecasting & Renewal Modeling

Vendor
Tiering

Segment Strategically. Manage Intelligently.

Not all vendors are created equal, some power mission-critical systems, others are niche or tactical. We help you classify and tier your software and cloud vendors based on spend, risk, business impact, and strategic value.

Vendor Management Expertise

  • Tier Definitions by Risk, Spend & Criticality
  • Strategic vs. Tactical Vendor Segmentation
  • Business Impact & Support Tier Alignment
  • Consolidation Opportunity Identification
  • Governance by Vendor Tier
  • Renewal & Audit Risk Prioritization
  • Tier-Driven Review Cadences (Asset Management Reviews)
  • Vendor Scorecards & KPI Tracking

Procurement
Control Point

Put Guardrails in Before Spend Happens

The best time to manage risk and cost is before a purchase is made. We help you embed ITAM-aligned checkpoints into procurement workflows—ensuring new acquisitions follow policy, meet standards, and deliver long-term value.

Procurement Control Expertise

  • Pre-Approval Workflows with ITAM Criteria
  • License Type & Entitlement Alignment
  • Duplication & Overlap Avoidance
  • Standardization on Approved Vendors
  • Integration with ITSM & Procurement Tools
  • Policy-Based Routing & Exception Handling
  • Stakeholder Notification & Audit Trail Logging
  • Cost Modeling

Expertise Pays Off

$230M

Oracle savings

A single license modeled incorrectly can have disastrous impacts. That’s why we bring experts with specific subject matter expertise. On Oracle licensing alone, we’ve helped our customers save over $230M.

Certified

CSAM

Certified Software Asset Manager (CSAM)

We invest in our people, to make sure that our customers get the expertise on the vendors that matter to them.

ITAM Outcomes

10-30%

License Cost Reduction

InSequence customers typically reduce software spend by 10–30% in the first year of maturing their SAM program.

Renewals & True Ups

100%

On Time

Mature InSequence customers see 100% of annual software renewals vetted and submitted on time.