We provide outsourcing service for strategic sourcing and procurement function by sourcing professionals in order for you to overcome there challenges. Our service will significantly reduce cost of resources by 30%, not including compensation and training cost reductions and also risk of failure in launching and managing strategic sourcing and procurement function.

■ Specialties of our service

①Experiences and know-how in launching and managing strategic sourcing function for clients and knowledge on processes, technologies and techniques of sourcing and procurement

We are one of few professional companies, specialized in management of sourcing and procurement function. 　Our core competence is development, accumulation and deployment of know-how and knowledge on strategic sourcing and procurement management, processes, technologies and techniques. We are one of thought leaders in this arena here. Our staff has abundant experience in launching and managing strategic sourcing function for clients. Below are sourced categories by our professional network.

②From designs of management, processes and infrastructure to strategic sourcing and spend management
Our specialties are not providing temporary staffs for non-value adding works but providing professional capabilities of designing management, processes and infrastructure for sourcing and procurement function and managing and executing strategic sourcing and spend management. Utilizing these specialties, we flexibly scope our outsourcing service corresponding to your needs.

③No binding to an infrastructure. On-demand scope, talents and infrastructure
Our strength comes from not by holding assets but by developing, accumulating and deploying know-how and knowledge. For example, we don't develop sourcing/purchasing systems, such as reverse auction or catalog purchasing tool. We are independent from any IT vendors and able to recommend the best fit solutions if necessary. As for professional staffs, we don't hold all of them internally but leverage independent contractors by procurement categories. We flexibly form a right team of talents to meet your needs and sourcing categories.

Thus, we don't charge any infrastructure cost, if you don't need it or you have your own. If you have build your infrastructure already, we design the best sourcing and procurement process, utilizing existing infrastructure.

④Provide both Residential and Non-residential service
Our flexibility allows to meet your requirement of both residential service, such as for focusing spend management, and non-residential service, such as for focusing strategic sourcing.

■ Service coverage and introduction steps

■ Success stories

Residential outsourcing of tele-marketing vendor consolidation and management for individual marketing campaigns for a global software client

Contact us from here or call +81-3-4500-1342 for launching or outsourcing strategic sourcing and purchasing function in Japan, or for our strategic sourcing and procurement outsourcing.

■ Strategic Sourcing through Expressive Commerce TM

• Held numbers of sourcing events for a leading beverage's supply chain management company. Examples of sourced items are corrugate, sugar and can, key items for bevarage companies
• Assisted a global CPG(consumer packaged goods) manufacuterer for their global sourcing of plastic films and bags

■ Sourcing and Purchasing Process BPR

• Assisted a global ERP package software company to establish tele-marketing vendor procurement and management process
• Assisting a construction company to establish global sourcing capability
• Supported a holding company of leading communication carriers to implement group purchasing among its group companies
• Assisted a nation-wide cooperative associations to re-organize its 17 affiliated logistics companies

■ Strategic Sourcing Outsourcing

• Managing tele-marketing management process for the global ERP package software company. As the result of their tele-marketing vendor procurement and management process BPR, the client has outsourced the process to us for better management
• Supported a pharmaceutical company to source janitor serivices for its 5 factories, while training its buyer for his sourcing skills and knowledge

■ Localization of solutions, services and processes

• As a business partner, we localized CombineNet's ASAP solution and services
• Supporting the global ERP package software company to implement their global tele-marketing management process, while overcoming local realities
• Mr. Nakanomori, founder and CEO of SSI had successfully implemented GE's risk management process to its newly acquired life insurance company. The life inusrance company was purchased by GE due to its financial turmoil. Mr. Nakanomori was awarded by both the company and GEFA, GE's holding company of insurance division for personal and team contributions to its risk management foundation

■ Assisting Japan market entry

• As a business partner, developed a market entry strategy and assisting CombineNet for Japan market penetration
• Taking a sales role for a Chinese procurement outsourcing company
• Assisting a supply chain optimization company to penetrate in Japan market

One of our missions is driving Japanese organizations to the top level in its procurement and purchasing management. To fulfill that mission, we focus on service developments which will fill the gaps between advanced technologies and operational realities, and between global management and local culture and constraints.

Thus, our technology strategy focuses on partnership with advanced technology companies, not development by ourselves and we always look for partnership opportunities with procurement and purchasing management technology companies, supply chain management(SCM) solution companies, suppliers in any BtoB market and "green suppliers" in BtoB market.

For BtoB suppliers, you have to have at least similar qualities with Japanese competitors and price competitiveness, which means your price is almost half of the Japanese competitors.

For "green suppliers, we are looking for real green suppliers, whose products and services not only free from restricted articles or save green gas emission, but also actually save usage of natural resources or energy with at least similar qualities and price competitiveness over non-environmental friendly competitors.

Contact us to learn more about market entry opportunities in Japan with SSI.

Below are our global technology partners who lead our customers to bring their procurement and purchasing managements to the ideal state.

CombineNet, the advanced sourcing technology company, helps companies achieve the absolute best value and lowest total cost of ownership for goods and services. CombineNet's Advanced Sourcing Application Platform enables companies to engage in Expressive Commerce™, the strategic sourcing initiative that allows buyers and sellers to communicate supply and demand more expressively, collaboratively and strategically. The result is a win-win for both buyer and supplier, where greater innovation and efficiency are driven into the supply chain. CombineNet's ASAP consistently produces 10, 15, even 20 percent greater actual cost savings than other e-sourcing solutions, and has delivered more than 45x ROI for the largest businesses in the world including General Mills, PepsiCo, Procter & Gamble, Siemens and others.

As a distribution and consulting partner, Samurai Sourcing provides extensive strategic sourcing expertise in the delivery of CombineNet's advanced sourcing technologies for Japan and Korea regions.

For additional information about CombineNet, visit www.combinenet.com.

Zycus continues to deliver on its heritage of providing best-in-class spend management solutions that are world renowned for delivering an accelerated return on investment through superior user adoption creating Maximized Savings. Zycus' solutions are built from the ground up combining cutting-edge technology and domain expertise, enabling higher performance and sustainable value to organizations worldwide. Zycus provides global spend management solutions to more than 150 leading Fortune 1000 customers that consider spend management software, processes and technology strategic to their competitive advantage. Zycus Spend Management solutions automate and streamline the processes of spend analysis, strategic sourcing and contract management.

As a marketing alliance partner and utilizing its unique position as a professional strategic sourcing and purchasing management company, Samurai Sourcing(SSI) enlightens Japanese companies about spend management and contract management and helps Zycus to market Zycus'software product and services. SSI is the one who introduced Zycus to the Japanese audience.

With more than 150 global proven implementations, Zycus' solutions have emerged as the global favorite. Zycus has more than 250 employees across North America, Europe and the Asia-Pacific region

For additional information about Zycus, visit www.zycus.com.

【Services】

■ Strategic Sourcing through Expressive CommerceTM

■ Green Procurement

■ Sourcing and Purchasing Process BPR

■ Strategic Sourcing Outsourcing

■ Localization of solutions, services and processes

• CombineNet's sourcing optimization solution
• Concept and solution of Supply chain optimization
• Tele-marketing Management process for a global ERP package software maker
• GE's risk management process

■ Assisting Japan market entry

Our wide spectrum of services and solutions in strategic sourcing and purchasing process BPR enables you to minimize total cost of ownership, while assuring qualities and stabilities of goods and services sourced, and increasing speed, efficiency, and transparency of your sourcing cycle significantly, in order for you to assure global competitiveness and to increase your corporate value

As a partner of CombineNet and Zycus, Samurai Sourcing (SSI) provides extensive strategic sourcing expertise in sourcing events for raw materials, components, truckloads, ocean freights, 3PL (Third Party Logistics) and as such.

Besides strategic sourcing service with CombineNet's advanced sourcing technologies, SSI provides wide range of sourcing, purchasing and SCM (supply chain management) related services, such as sourcing and purchasing process BPR, process improvement, implementation of procurement and/or purchasing solutions and strategic sourcing outsourcing.

Link to SSI's services

【 Management Team 】
Founder & CEO: Kay Nakanomori
Mr. Nakanomori had been responsible for CombineNet's Japan operation in Nov '06. He founded Samurai Sourcing, Inc. in order to accelerate CombineNet's business in Japan by fasten business decision and increasing responsiveness to Japanese customers' needs with wider sourcing and SCM (Supply Chain Management) solutions and services. His former positions were CEO of a boutique consulting company, specialized in sourcing and purchasing arena, GE Edison Life Insurance, Ernest&Young Japan (currently know as Zacatii Consulting) and Mitsubishi Corporation. He specializes in sourcing, purchasing and SCM related process improvement and BPR, project management, designing and managing operational divisions, developing and executing business strategy and plan, and localizing software, services and processes. He earns an MBA from The University of Texas at Austin McCombs Business School MBA. He is a 4th Graduate of Entrepreneurship School held by Keizai Doyukai (Japan Association of Corporate Executives)

Advisor: Tetsuo Yamazaki
Special Advisor, J-COACH Corporation.
Member of the board of directors, NPO YUVEC（Yokohama University Venture Club）
Member of the board of directors, NPO Furusato TV
Mr. Yamazaki served as CEO of Sushiden, the largest Edomae-suchi, CEO of Sushiden America, VP of Boots MC, a joint venture between the largest drug store in England and Mitsubishi Corporation, while he was in Mitsubishi Corporation. After Mitsubishi Corporation, he held CEO of Shizutetsu Just Line, an affiliated company of Shizuoka Railway Co. Ltd. and CEO of J-COACH Corporation.