Procurement Manager^SM

Procurement Manager manages and controls the entire procurement and purchasing process. A powerful solution that is part of Perfect Commerce's Spend Management suite, Procurement Manager improves efficiency and reduces labor costs by eliminating manual, paper-based processes and providing enterprise-wide self-service procurement. Whether purchasing MRO items or strategic indirect items, Procurement Manager should be an integral part of any purchase-to-pay solution.

Automated Processes Save Time and Money

Procurement Manager saves companies time and money by automating the procurement process. Thousands of paper or fax-based Purchase Orders and PO Responses can be eliminated and replaced with more accurate and standardized electronic documents. Advanced workflow and search capabilities drive enterprise-wide process efficiencies, lowering typical purchasing cycle time by 75%.

Increases Spend Under Management

Companies can configure Procurement Manager to fit their purchasing processes and increase their spend under management. Companies can develop centralized contracts, define advanced business rules and determine which suppliers and catalogs will be utilized by which users and business units. Then, users within Procurement Manager can easily make purchasing decisions within seconds with powerful product search features and the ability to compare suppliers with a single click. Procurement Manager provides a sophisticated workflow engine which streamlines the purchasing and approval process. Once approved, purchases orders are automatically generated from the requisition and dispatched to the supplier. Purchasing managers can easily monitor activity across their user community and use advanced reporting capabilities to receive detailed information on purchasing activity. All these powerful capabilities combine to advance procurement initiatives, lower costs and accelerate ROI.

• Search by supplier, manufacturer, keyword(s) or UNSPSC commodity item and compare suppliers with a single click.
• Enable roundtrip or punchout to supplier sites and configurators while still routing requisitions through proper approval processes.
• Customize approval management process for efficient workflow.
• Define company-specific business rules to control maverick buying.

Seamless Connectivity for Straight-Through Processing

Designed to integrate with financial and accounts payable systems, Procurement Manager provides straight-through processing and delivers on the benefits of a truly seamless procurement process. Procurement Manager works hand-in-hand with the Open Supplier Network^SM (OSN), enabling companies to make a single connection to access all of their trading partners. Built as a collaborative service, Procurement Manager also integrates directly with Perfect Commerce's Invoice Manager^SM, automating every step of an invoice transaction from receipt and review to remittance advice.

Powerful Network Enhance the Supply Chain

Combined with the OSN, Procurement Manager becomes an even more powerful tool. The OSN delivers efficient trading partner connectivity and content. Buyers and suppliers connect to transact and manage their business relationships in a highly scalable electronic environment, delivering a remarkable degree of flexibility to meet the demands of finding, controlling and expanding savings in the supply chain.

• Largest independent supplier network in the world.
• Over 12,000 suppliers.
• Over 21 million SKUs of catalogue content.
• Real-time auction event savings calculations.
• Easily integrates with leading ERP systems such as SAP^TM, PeopleSoft^TM and Oracle^TM.