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Adopting a Smarter Procurement Strategy to Control Costs
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Introduction Procurement is an integral part of a business and most marketers tread this path for reducing their manufacturing costs. Furthermore, an effective procurement strategy also helps businesses in consistent supplier performance, uninterrupted supply, risk mitigation, and cost control. With the assistance of procurement consultants, organizations are able to get greater insights relating to their purchasing process.
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How Procurement Activities Hold the Line on Expenses
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Procurement covers several activities and is a complex discipline in every aspect. Most companies fail to control their basic purchasing activities. In most cases, the procurement tools that firms use are to be blamed. Newage firms are realizing the importance of smarter spend management more than ever. Several small and mediumsized businesses struggle to bring their spending under control as they lack the systems to support it. With the advent of e-Procurement systems, organizations are minimizing this problem. However, there are significant differences between legacy e-Procurement systems and smart procurement tools. Some companies are focusing on financial management systems rather than e-Procurement tools to control their expenses.
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How Unchecked Spending Impacts Productivity Levels of Organizations
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Consider a situation, a fast-growing company has implemented a financial management system to monitor its expenses. Some days later, the controller of the firm deciphered that his finance department was overwhelmed with vendor invoices that had no reference to a purchase order. The worst is that his finance staff had no clue of the employee who made the purchase. Under such circumstances, it is advisable for the firm to attest that processing “orphan invoices�. This will also help the controller to realize the several big problems in his organization. More often, these issues come in the form of out of control spending, burdened employees, entering the vendors’ name into the ERP system, and an invoice that is lacking a purchase order had to be verified with the purchaser in order to approve it for payment. The suggestions of procurement subcontractors also come in handy to organizations in this regard.
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Benefits of Integrated EProcurement and Financial Systems 07
Reduced costs Transparent spending Increased productivity Eliminating paperwork Increased transaction speed Standardized buying
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How a Better Procurement Strategy Creates Strategic Value
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Companies that are focusing on their strategic activities should control their transactional procureto-pay processes. With the emergence of eprocurement cloud systems, casual users can easily find their requirements. These e-procurement tools are combined with compliance enforcement policies through approval rules and purchase order creation. It makes the accounts payable process easier in absolute terms.
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