In today’s post Tyler Walther, outlines many of the advantages and benefits of e-Procurement.
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e-Procurement comes with distinct benefits over manual purchasing, ranging from increased cost efficiency to greater access to suppliers. Let’s delve deeper into some of these noticeable advantages.
Increased cost efficiency is considered the primary benefit of utilizing an e-procurement purchasing platform. E-procurement puts a single buyer online with many suppliers, thus lessening the leg work traditionally associated with the buyer narrowing his or her field of suppliers.
Using the e-procurement platform, buyers have access to essentially an unlimited list of suppliers, which equates into a wider selection of goods and services. These suppliers have normally undertaken rigorous vetting procedures to ensure that they are the correct supplier for the specific job or work the client is requesting.
e-Procurement applications can be tailored to fulfill the distinct needs of buyers and sellers and be scaled to grow as the organizations expand. For example, suppliers from new territories can be added to supplier databases as the organization grows into new market segments.
e-Procurement processes can greatly increase productivity. Customers can acquire the items they want to procure from a catalog of approved items through an on-line requisition and ordering system. Purchasing staff can be relieved from processing orders, filing paperwork and handling lower priority tasks to focus on strategic sourcing and improving supplier relationships.
In some organizations, purchasing duties are dispersed over several different departments within the company. E-procurement platforms will enable a company to merge orders for similar items with one supplier, resulting in greater volume discounts and cost savings. Additionally, e-procurement may allow a company to simplify purchasing by reducing the number of products involved. Instead of having to sort through large volumes of paper or electronic catalogs, buyers are able to build custom catalogs that include only the items the company is interested in. Additionally, this method increases volumes of smaller numbers of items, which is another process used to generate volume discounts.
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