Solutions : Purchasing : Features and Expertise

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LEVERAGE TOOLS AND INTELLIGENCE THAT DRIVE SUPERIOR RESULTS

Leverage Manage
  • Catalog self-service requisitions through a single order point (bundled with Epiq Procurement)
  • Purchase order creation from requisitions or from scratch (bundled with Epiq Procurement)
  • Standard requisition creation for direct and indirect goods (bundled with Epiq Procurement)
  • Requisition sourcing rules definition and audit trails to reduce off contract spend
Source requisitioning
  • Per line shipment schedules, delivery dates, delivery addresses, and status listings
  • Item cost assignment for account, department, business unit or project available per line item
  • Blanket purchase orders, release orders, and limited value purchase order creation
  • Custom purchasing document type settings to create additional purhcasing documents
Purchase orders and purchasing documents
  • Three-way matching to check shipments and receipts with invoices and purchase orders
  • Note creation and verification of quantities ordered, shipped, received, and inspected
  • Receipt creation to document and record the results of the inspection process
  • Invoice checking to check amount billed against actual deliveries, receipts, and returns
Invoicing and receiving
  • Supplier settings based pre-approved lists and rules for purchasing controls
  • Evaluation tools for assessment of supplier price, quality, and service performance
  • Vendor entry, approval, and tools to share vendor data across the organization
  • Multiple vendor address, locations, and classification codes for accurate matching
Supply base and supplier performance
  • Analytics on purchase orders, receipts, vendor activity, and purchases
  • Easy to use workflow with reusable templates and clear, repeatable processes
  • Dashboards and views with configurable preferences and real-time notifications
  • Advanced user roles, privledges, and access controls for a collaborative framework
Visibility and dashboards
  • Solution set up, deployment, and configuration to align with goals and policies
  • Purchasing training with best practices, purchasing documents, and rule definition
  • Schedules management, receiving support, distributions settings, and custom documents
  • Implementation support and accessible knowledge library to speed organizational adoption
Expertise and Support
  • Industry leading, hosted solution created for web delivery with web services
  • Multi-channel technical and help desk support to assist buyers with purchasing
  • Secure architecture and hierarchy designed to protect users, documents, and data
  • Best-of-breed facilities, network, and equipment optimized for performance
Infrastructure
  • The Epiq Purchasing features above are associated with the Custom-Deploy delivery option.
  • Those associated with On-Demand and Rapid-Deploy are a subset of this list.

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