Smart Purchasing Manager
Helps you negotiate improved purchasing rates from key
suppliers by providing comprehensive business intelligence
reports about purchasing activities
The Smart Purchasing Manager module ensures that all purchasing is carried out with approved suppliers (often using pre-established rates for products and materials). In doing so purchasing leakage is minimal, thus saving the customer unnecessary costs, and maximum leverage from the supply chain is achieved.
- Negotiate improved purchasing rates for products and materials with key suppliers. Ensure that all proposed purchases are approved by purchasing authorities with delegated purchasing limits within the business, thus ensuring that purchasing control is maintained by the business
- Highlights which suppliers consistently offer the best service, or the best rates, then this information can be used to inform lists for Request for Proposals (RFP), or lists for Invitation to Tender (ITT). By this means the customer is more likely to receive competitive bids and not waste time with suppliers that are not competitive
Key features
- Fully intranet-enabled
- Saas - Software as a Service
- Reduces purchasing leakage
- Fits with existing processes
- Improved purchasing rates
Tactical benefits
- Can be configured to work with a customer’s own supply chain management system
- Support as many categories of supply as needed as well as multiple purchasing types. By this means detailed analysis of purchasing can be carried out on the system
- Purchasing control - The system enforces purchasing rules for categories of supply, relevant to certain types of supplier and indeed certain designations of supplier within the supply chain database
Purchase order creation
Operational benefits
- Will notify managers when a supplier's certification or insurances are about to expire
- Purchasing knowledge is stored on the system for all transactions
- Once the draft order has been approved it is automatically generated by the system and sent the supplier by automated email
- Terms & Conditions and other generic documents can be automatically attached to the order as it is sent out
Sample purchase order
Related products/services
- Plant Manager - Comprehensive business intelligence reports about purchasing activities
Link
- Performance Manager - Manages and evaluates customer service delivery link
- Supply Chain Management - Manages approved suppliers more efficiently link
- SaaS 'Software as a Service' - The online alternative to installed business solutions link