How several of your peers utilize their LEVEL membership
$30B Financial Services Company
A new member, used LEVEL’s initial assistance to help with a large scale VMware ELA. In addition, they take advantage of LEVEL’s Research Review through quarterly presentations to their Vendor Management, Sourcing and IT Infrastructure team meetings. This has helped to insure that all three teams remain on the same page for vendor negotiations.
$15B Oil & Gas Company
A 3 year member, uses LEVEL as part of their chain in the evaluation of every Storage & Server related contract and transaction. Each vendor proposal is passed to LEVEL for review and either accepted or highlighted for further negotiation. This allows for their vendor management team to focus on deals with the greatest potential return on their time & budget.
$5B Healthcare Services Company
A 2 year member, uses LEVEL for assistance in setting up Auction term criteria for both Storage and Servers. Given LEVEL’s knowledge of terms previously accepted by vendors, their sourcing team gains advanced knowledge on terms that will and won’t be considered, making for a much easier negotiation.
$1B CPG Company
A 3 year member, uses LEVEL to review & analyze all storage deals, with particular emphasis on discounts and contract language. Uses LEVEL to find specific line items to combat for additional discounting.
$50B Financial Institution
A 4 year member, uses LEVEL’s quarterly research to monitor it vast array of vendors. They take advantage of LEVEL’s custom data cuts to see how they match up against their large size peers, and renegotiate as appropriate.
$40B Retailer
A 5 year member, uses LEVEL’s research to get up to speed quickly on discounts and specific transactions on vendors they are exploring relationships. They have also utilized LEVEL’s managed introductions to gain specific peer knowledge on several topics.
$50B+ Aerospace/Defense Company
A first year member, uses LEVEL research reports religiously to ensure competitive pricing with their key vendors. Recently implemented an internal process to include LEVEL in every Storage and Server transaction review prior to approval.
$20B Manufacturing Company
A 5 year member, uses LEVEL to maintain declining scale information for their vendor contracts. They use LEVEL’s research to keep track of current prices as well as the overall market prices which they build into their contracts, saving significant time and money by avoiding consistent renegotiation.