The 7 Golden Rules for e-Procurement Success

Some have it. Most others want it. And everyone looking to be an industry leader knows exactly why. Successful e-Procurement delivers huge competitive advantages, from speeding up payment cycles and increasing spend under control to stamping out maverick spending, to name just a few benefits.

However, many businesses are being held back by a fear of failing to deliver on the promise. But these 7 golden rules will help you avoid the most common pitfalls and maximize your e-Procurement ROI. Our decades of experience of helping hundreds of companies adopt best practices have made it clear to us that the most successful e-procurement adopters begin by putting people first and regard e-Procurement adoption as a critical exercise in change management.

Download the 7 Golden Rules for eProcurement Success to learn about these practical recommendations and expert advice:

  • Stakeholders drive success – seek early input from stakeholders to create a vision statement with clearly defined goals that acknowledge their needs.
  • Grab the reins and lead – manage your resources, time, money, and scope wisely.
  • Benchmark it – set your goals on realistic targets drawn from a wide data set.
  • Know it all – understanding how procurement works is all well and good, but in order to maximize success you’ll also need to know how finance and other processes will benefit.
  • All systems are go – every successful launch needs a practice run – iron out the kinks with a pilot project.
  • Keep them happy – never take your eyes off the prize. Always check your progress against your stakeholders’ needs.

Comprehensive RFP Template

Find the perfect e-Procurement partner for your business by fine-tuning your requirements and much more using our comprehensive Purchase-to-Pay RFP template, which includes a dedicated section for procurement.

Hungarian Rail

When Hungarian Rail wanted to modernize its Procurement and Accounts Payable processes, it turned to Basware’s off-the-shelf solutions to rapidly achieve full spend visibility and control. Requisitioning is now a strategic focus that lowers costs, reduces supply chain risk, and fulfills their compliance needs. Learn how they did it.

The role of contract management in Purchase-to-Pay

Business might be done with a handshake, but it takes a contract to make it a reality. Contracts underpin every part of your organization. Consider then how an effective Contract Management solution can impact across an organization: recent estimates suggest 2% of total spend alone is wasted by failing to ensure full compliance of carefully negotiated terms and conditions. For a global company spending $1.4 billion per year, that is a savings of $28 million.

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White Paper: Holistic Purchase-to-Pay: Unlocking Cash by Creating Synergy in P2P

Successful procurement begins with a reliable network of partners. When you fully connect Procurement electronically to a wider network of suppliers, you leverage the collaborative nature of the extended enterprise enabling suppliers to help control costs and manage your catalogs.

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Forrester Wave 2011: Basware top in global compatibility

According to the recent Forrester Research Wave of the top 11 global eProcurement providers, Basware led the pack with its superior user experience and ability to help buyers connect to suppliers online. Moreover, Basware achieved the highest score in global capability – enabling customers to readily implement Purchase-to-Pay across multiple countries, business units, and ERPs.

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Fact Sheet: Basware Catalogs

Capture spend visibility and control while you boost collaboration across your extended enterprise by enabling catalog-based purchasing.

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Fact Sheet: Contract Management

Lock in early payment savings from strengthened contract control and compliance. Ensure full contract visibility for all key stakeholders.

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Fact Sheet: RFx Management

Simplify and expedite your sourcing process with automated tracking and comparison of competitive bidding.

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Plandent Case Study

With 25,000 products to choose from, Plandent’s customers often sent multi-line, hand-written POs. Catalog Management simplified transactions with online Catalog Management.

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DNA case study

With thousands of supplier contracts requiring constant upkeep and monitoring, telecom operator DNA streamlined its management with Basware Procurement solutions to implement centralized automated control with easy online access.

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