Ability to create and manage vendors, relationships with vendors, vendor contract(s), negotiated rates and pricing models, supported advertisement types and other configurable information specific to the organization. Vendor Management enables organizations to manage both traditional media vendors such as newspapers and other print media together with Internet-based new media vendors.

Ability to create and manage worldwide, subsidiary-based, location or brand-based advertisement distribution and buy strategies. The configurability of the application ensures that multiple configurations such as grouping or zoning of locations, categorization and sub categorization of events are easily achieved. Context’s Engagement Manager also provides the capability to associate multiple vendors to multiple strategies. Internal controls can be implemented by workflow-based approvals for strategy creation and management. Budgeting per strategy and systematic enforcement is a key feature as well.

Ability to create, approve, manage and distribute monthly, weekly or daily runlists. Also supports the ability to generate purchase orders per vendor and for vendors to access the information online.

Enables vendors to upload invoices online against the respective purchase orders. Internal users can review, approve and make the payment decision online. The approval process is configurable per organization’s unique needs.

Comprehensive adhoc reporting capabilities ensure that users can create, manage, share and export their reports. Rule based creation of reports and alerts are available as well.