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Procurement Assessment

Making procurement strategic for everyone

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Benefits of eprocurement for the public sector

With SciQuest's eprocurement solution, your institution can realize the potential to streamline your procurement efforts and maximize ROI.

Improve customer service

Now you can shorten order cycles and serve users better by automating back-office procurement processes. Our easy-to-use web-based shopping interface gives users the ability to search and select the items, supplies and services they need. Electronic requisitions are created, then routed for approval. Our online workflow management accommodates approval requirements such as account codes, P-card limits, purchase authorization limits and other configurable criteria. Orders are sent electronically to suppliers, who can send order status updates to be viewed directly by end users.

Electronically enable suppliers

Enabling a critical mass of supplier product content is crucial to maximizing user adoption, purchasing efficiency and spend visibility. SciQuest offers both hosted and punch-out access to multi-commodity supplier catalogs through the SciQuest Supplier Network. Categories include office, MRO, computer/IT, manufacturing, food service, publications, scientific, and more. SciQuest's supplier enablement tools also allow organizations to rapidly enable pricing, local inventory and stockrooms, and any non-network suppliers. Committed to industry collaboration, SciQuest solutions can also be configured to provide access to purchasing consortia.

Promote preferred vendor programs

Most procurement systems only change how employees buy. Our solution also changes what they buy. By integrating preferred vendor agreements with an intuitive shopping experience, SciQuest can measurably increase contract compliance. Purchasing agents configure supplier content to promote preferred suppliers, including diversity classifications, and highlight best buys. End users search for and select items by accessing detailed product information and using decision making tools such as side-by-side product comparisons and real-time pricing and availability.

Streamline reconciliation

Documenting receipts and matching invoices are critical steps in the procurement cycle. Receiving personnel and requestors electronically link the received goods and services to the original order. Next, Accounts Payable uses the invoicing module to complete the reconciliation process by matching suppliers' invoices with their respective receipts and/or orders. Enabling einvoices further streamlines the reconciliation process.

Gain visibility into campus spending

Analyzing your spend at the supplier, commodity and requisitioner level is critical to understanding departmental spending patterns, identifying savings opportunities and auditing both user and supplier compliance. Powerful Business Intelligence reports include line-item data for custom analysis that give administrators and purchasing professionals unprecedented visibility into campus, departmental and divisional spending.