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Do you need solutions to these common procurement
problems?
Companies typically face three primary challenges:
Challenge #1 - Transaction Efficiency
- Formulate timely, accurate quotations
(configuration, pricing and costs)
- Accommodate local currencies and
languages
- Eliminate re-keying
- Effectively route requisitions through
approval
- Effectively place orders based on lead
time and availability
- Visibility to order status to
co-ordinate on-site efforts
- Accurate and timely invoicing
Challenge #2 - Managing Vendor Spend
- Consolidate vendors and leverage
transaction volume
- Enforce “on contract” purchasing
- Integrate IT spend with internal
e-Procurement initiatives
- Standardise on technologies and manage
commodity spend
- Ability to take advantage of special
promotional pricing and product bundling
- Minimise premium freight
Challenge #3 - Accommodating Global Needs
- Support centralised sourcing and
purchasing across geographically dispersed regions
- Accommodate local currency, language
and localisation
- Comply with legal and trade
restrictions
- Recover VAT, duties and taxes
- Apply accurate logistics charges
- Achieve adequate system performance
We can offer you advanced solutions and a genuine
understanding of your core concerns
Dimension Data‘s e-Procurement solution integrates web-based
transaction management and decision support tools to greatly enhance your
technology purchasing capabilities. This scalable platform is built on
industry standards and developed to grow with your business needs, improve employee
productivity and enhance operating efficiency on a company-wide basis. Some
of the core capabilities include:
e-Procurement Integration - Companies that have
invested in an e-Procurement system can seamlessly integrate with our
e-Marketplace, leveraging their procurement processes to purchase from our
configurable catalogues of technology and services.
Hosted Options – Users without an e-Procurement system
can use the Internet to procure through Dimension Data.
Self-Service Purchasing – Technology and services can
be custom-configured via a web front end. Users can create a quote in real
time based on negotiated pricing, send it through their procurement process,
and execute a purchase order, to procure the items.
Full-Service Purchasing – You can collaborate with our
experts to combine your in-depth understanding of your needs with our
experience. After communicating with you, Dimension Data will configure and
quote the order.
Bundled Solution Purchasing – Pre-configured bundles
can be created by users, including multi-vendor products and Dimension Data
services.
Order Status – View the status of your orders,
including line item details such as estimated arrival times
Reporting – Users can generate reports regarding their
purchasing activity, helping them to make more strategic purchasing and
budgeting decisions.
… and you can reap the rewards of our technology and
expertise with nine defined benefits
- Improved procurement processes
- Reduce turnaround time on quotes
- Maintain costs by pre-selecting
purchase options
- Automate a procurement authorisation
process
- Generate real time reports to track
purchases
- Control rogue spending by enforcing
use of central contracts
- Track the status of orders on-line
- Eliminate paper-dependent processes and
manual duplication of entries
- Avoid capital and support costs
associated with internal e-Procurement systems
- Improve order processing efficiency -
by more than 33%
- Strengthen relationships with preferred
vendors
- Centralise control over the entire
procurement process
- Bundle purchases of technology products
and affiliated services
- Purchase worldwide in multiple
currencies
- Procure from multiple vendors, in
multiple locations, on one site
