The globalization of exchanges in terms of purchasing does not mean necessarily information exchanges.
May your local purchasers locally based at the national or the international level have an interest in exchanging or even federating their product practises? The profits to be made, though very important, do not always justify the implementation of a specialized business application, with high costs of configuration and implementation.
The installation of a mutualised OpenCS platform allows rationalization and optimization of purchase processes between its different partners.
use case
In the agro food industry
Management contracts and purchase projects platform
N°1 in the world on its market, this French group has locations on each of the 5 continents.
On the occasion of the reorganization of its purchase policy, new positions of “leading” purchasers, in charge of geographical zones and categories of products have been created. This new organization aims to ease the knowledge and the diffusion of the best purchase practises within the Group.
The project
OpenCS implemented a SRM (Supplier Relationship Management) purchase application available in a SAAS (Software As A Service) secured mode.
This application allows the validation and the consolidation of the whole provider contracts and to provide the teams with management and follow-up of purchase projects (market information collection and purchase documentary base, “requests for information” management, “request for quotation” management, follow-up of the project implementation.
Client benefits
>Provision to purchasers in one month of a customized collaborative tool, accessible through a simple and secured Internet connection
>Monitoring by the purchasing Management facilitated by a global or detailed vision and update of the purchase information
>A better diffusion of the purchase best practises, a important saving source in terms of purchase turnover
