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.jpg) Whatever your organisation does, there will be things it needs to buy. These might be products or services that are essential to running the business, like stationery, furniture, business travel, or they might be core commodities that form part of your business offering.
Buying these commodities not only incurs the cost of the item or service itself, but also in processing the order and the subsequent payment. e-Procurement takes traditional, often disparate paper purchasing processes, and automates them. This allows the full range of activities to take place more easily, quickly and efficiently from raising initial requisitions, to placing orders and payment processing.
Automation excercises greater control, enhances purchasing power and reduces procurement time and costs:
- Risk of fraud is reduced
- Improved terms of trade with suppliers
- On-line catalogues ensure that employees buy from preferred suppliers, at the best possible price
- Increased management visibility of total spend focuses attention and enables unit costs to be driven down
- Integration is possible with e-Sourcing solutions such as e-Auctions and e-Tendering.
AiM has developed a simple best practice model tailored precisely to the needs of organisations wishing to move from more traditional purchasing processes to e-Procurement. The key components are:
- Spend analysis
- Process design
- System implementation
- Training and post-implementation support.
AiM practitioners are experienced implementers of the two dominant e-Procurement systems: Oracle iProcurement and Ariba Buyer.
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