Procurement going

Andriy Zabroda
Kady Zhuang
Shariqua Rahman
Tri Huynh

Procurement Department
E-Procurement (Electronic Procurement)
The business-to-business purchase and sale of supplies and services
primarily through the Internet as well as other information and networking
systems.

Benefits of E-Procurement
 Reduce costs
 Reduce off-contract spending
 Increase the use of preferred suppliers
 Improve inventory management
 Establishes pricing controls & buying controls
 Conduct purchases & interface with suppliers
Procure+ from ePLus
 A Feature-rich and secure software, with sophisticated workflow,
catalog management, and transaction management capabilities,
automating entire purchasing process
.
 An intuitive graphical user interface
• Helps to purchase
• Help to track and receive orders
• Provides advanced searching techniques

 Reduce the overall cost of inefficient purchasing processes

 Maximize online purchases

 Better pricing through collaboration & supplier-managed inventory

 Benefits
 Process Improvement
• faster ordering process at less cost
• reduced maverick buying

 Financial controls
• budget control
• correct accounting information
• capturing spending information at the beginning of the process

 Supplier management
• better mix of suppliers
• increased supplier performance
• direct reduction of purchased costs
 Other benefits
 Hassle-free implementation. ePlus performs all
installations and integrations.

 More than 600 settings to customize, ensuring the system adheres to your
workflow requirements.

 Better return on investment with an intuitive system that is easy to use and
install.

 An appealing graphical interface helps users quickly adopt the new system
so your organization can start saving money immediately.

 Integration with most ERP and back-office systems, including SAP,

Oracle, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and Great Plains.

 Fully-secure system to ensure that the company’s data is protected.

 mySAP SCM
 Many companies across the globe have used mySAP SCM to
improve their business and operations processes. In fact, mySAP
SCM is the only supply chain solution that integrates collaboration, planning,
execution, and coordination of the entire supply chain network -- empowering
you to:
• Synchronize supply to demand -- Balance push and pull network planning
processes. Replenish inventory and execute production based on actual demand.

• Sense and respond with an adaptive supply chain network -- Drive

distribution, transportation, and logistics processes that are integrated with real-
time planning processes.

• Provide network wide visibility, collaboration, and analytics -- Monitor

and analyze your extended supply chain.
 SCM Functions
 Supply chain planning & collaboration
• model your existing supply chain
• set goals, forecast, optimize, schedule time, materials, and other resources
• maximize return on assets
• ensure a profitable match of supply and demand

 Supply chain execution

• carry out supply chain planning and generate high efficiency at the lowest
possible cost
• You can sense and respond to demand through an adaptive supply chain
network in which distribution, transportation, and logistics are integrated into
real-time planning processes

 Supply chain visibility design and analytics

• gives you network wide visibility across your extended supply chain to
perform strategic as well as day-to-day planning
• The solution also enables collaboration and analytics, so you can monitor and
analyze the performance of your extended supply chain using predefined key
performance indicators (KPIs)
Business Benefits
 Faster response to changes in supply and demand -- With
increased visibility into the supply chain and adaptive supply chain networks, you can be more
responsive. You can sense and respond quickly to changes and quickly capitalize on
new opportunities.

 Increased customer satisfaction -- By offering a common information framework that

supports communication and collaboration, mySAP SCM enables you to better adapt to and
meet customer demands.

 Compliance with regulatory requirements -- You can track and monitor compliance
in areas such as environment, health, and safety.

 Improved cash flow -- Information transparency and real-time business intelligence can lead
to shorter cash-to-cash cycle times. Reduced inventory levels and increased inventory turns across
the network can lower overall costs.

 Higher margins -- With mySAP SCM, you can lower operational expenses with more timely planning for
procurement, manufacturing, and transportation. Better order, product, and execution tracking can lead to improvements
in performance and quality -- and lower costs. You can also improve margins through better coordination with business
partners.

 Greater synchronization with business priorities -- Tight connections with trading partners keep your
supply chain aligned with current business strategies and priorities, improving your organization's overall performance
and achievement of goals.
Procure + Evaluation
Procure +        

Requirement ID Value Comments Rating Requirements Software

A Procure+ demo is available on the company

1 Y   Procure+
website

integration with most ERP and back-office systems,

2 Y including SAP, Oracle, Peoplesoft, JD Edwards, and   Procure+
Great Plains.

A hosted application can be expanded

incrementally, simply by licensing more
users, or putting through more volume.
Additional server and storage requirements
3 Y are taken care of by ePlus. For us, enterprise-   Procure+
wide applications can be expanded simply by
training more users, and possibly paying a
larger subscription fee, depending on
additional hardware requirements.

intuitive graphical user interface helps to purchase,

4 Y track and receive orders, and provides   Procure+
advanced searching techniques.

The software is able to operate with our client

5 Y   Procure+
desktop configuration.

fully secure system to ensure that the company’s

6 Y   Procure+
data is protected

Perfect for end-users of all types, including

7 4 User Interface Rating Procure+
suppliers, negotiators, as well as the buyers

Easy to use graphic user interface makes it user-

8 5 User Interface Rating Procure+
friendly for all levels of users

ePlus offers extensive consulting and IT help if there

9 3 User Interface Rating Procure+
are any problems
 Procure +        

Requirement ID Value Comments Rating Requirements Software

Common look throughout, right down to the

10 4 reports that can be outputted from the data User Interface Rating Procure+
used throughout the purshasing process

Very graphic interface and intuitivie visuals, but

11 3 User Interface Rating Procure+
lacking in common defaults

Not so much self-helps available online, but there

12 3 User Interface Rating Procure+
are hints and tips

Not really have any past experience with using

13 2 Technology Rating Procure+
ePlus software
Website has many customer feedback
comments/recommendations who have
14 5 Functional Rating Procure+
been successful after implementing
Procure+
petPRO users not really trained on this type of
15 2 Functional Rating Procure+
software before
Allows reports to be formatted and created on
16 5 Functional Rating Procure+
HTML
fully-secure system to ensure that the company’s
17 3 Security Rating Procure+
data is protected.
The company has been in business for 25 years
developing procurement software, but they
18 5   Procure+
have just recently come up with this latest
version, Procure+
This would depend on how long petPRO want to
$50000-several
19 retain the license to use it and the size of   Procure+
million
our company.
They include training costs with the licensed
20 N/A software implementation costs-it’s a lump   Procure+
sum that ePLus offers
It will depend on the number of suppliers that are
21 N/A   Procure+
working with us.
mySAP SCM Evaluation
Software 2        

Requirement ID Value Comments Rating Requirements Software

1 Y A limited time trial version is avaliable.   mySAP SCM

The application not only supports our SAP/ERP system

2 Y but it is made for it because it is made by the same   mySAP SCM
company, SAP.

The software is made for many users, it is made so all

3 Y emplyees that need to use it can use it within the   mySAP SCM
company.

The application has a GUI front end interface wich

4 Y operates with Windows XP system used by our   mySAP SCM
company.

The software is able to operate with our cliend desktop

5 Y   mySAP SCM
configuration.

6 Y Has same security features as our SAP/ERP system.   mySAP SCM

The application is configurable for cutom needs of our

7 4 User Interface Rating mySAP SCM
firm.

Since the application has similar format as our SAP/ERP

8 5 solution it is easy to use for anyone who is already User Interface Rating mySAP SCM
familiar with the old system.

The application will let users know if somethin is missing

9 4 User Interface Rating mySAP SCM
or if they have created an error.

The application is already easy to use because it is made

10 5 by SAP and that’s why it will have a common look User Interface Rating mySAP SCM
to employees of petPRO.

11 4 N/A User Interface Rating mySAP SCM

 The aplication has such features as tutorials and help also there is
12 5 help avaliable online at the SAP website if you are a member of User Interface Rating mySAP SCM
SAP (own the product licence).

Our consulting staff has experience in implementing similar kind of

13 5 systems because we recently had our SAP system implemented Technology Rating mySAP SCM
wich has the same concepts as this system.

Companies such as Alcan Packaging and HP have implemented this

14 5 Functional Rating mySAP SCM
software and it has been intergrated with SAP

15 4 N/A Functional Rating mySAP SCM

16 4 N/A Functional Rating mySAP SCM

Security is high with SAP you even have your own membership at the
17 5 Security Rating mySAP SCM
SAP website if your company uses SAP ERP system

SAP has been building innovative business solutions for almost 34

18 34   mySAP SCM
years.

It costs up to 4 billion for companies who get this solution with RFID
however it will not be nessesarry for our company yet, because
19 up to 4 billion   mySAP SCM
it is the mySAP SCM system that will be effective for our
company and that way this solution will be much cheaper.

Training costs will be cheaper then with other solutions for e

procurement because this system uses same concepts as our
20 N/A   mySAP SCM
SAP ERP system so our staff will already be familiar with the
application and therefore will not need as much training.

The time to implement the software will depend the number of

21 N/A computers the software will be installed on and how much time   mySAP SCM
it takes to train our staff.
Comparing Procure + to mySAP SCM

Sum of Value Software    

Rating Requirements mySAP SCM Procure+ Grand Total

Functional Rating 13 12 25

Security Rating 5 3 8

Technology Rating 5 2 7

User Interface Rating 27 22 49

Grand Total 50 39 89
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