Solution Summary
eCity allows you to bring your employees into your procurement process. Aggregate requests for maximum discounts. Encourage contract purchases and reduce “maverick buys”. Automate tedious and error prone account coding. Eliminate disruptive “Request Status” calls to purchasing - all while cutting the time and expense of your average procurement transaction.
Employees quickly request approved items using a familiar Internet shopping process. Requests can include hard goods, services and capital items. When the user “checks out” the request is automatically routed to approvers. When approval is granted items are issued from stock or purchased.
Convenient defaults and user preferences eliminate errors and speed the entry process. Approved requests can be issued from inventory, automatically purchased from a contract, or routed to a buyer for a manual purchase order.
All parties benefit from this unique approach. Your employees can check the status of any request instantly without contacting the purchasing department. Employees are notified by e-mail when their request is approved and when the goods are issued. Employee Alerts are generated automatically when requests are late for approval or a promise date is missed.
Your suppliers instantly receive purchase orders by e-mail. Supplier acknowledgements can be received electronically. Both processes save suppliers time and money and shorten your procurement cycle.
Buyers have the tools to automate repetitive, low-dollar, purchases allowing them to focus their efforts on supply planning, contract administration, negotiation and supplier performance.
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