The Business Need for e-Procurement Solution

What happens when your organization has a complicated eProcurement solution?

You may find it difficult to select the right category or supplier for making the business purchase
You may end up spending a disproportionate amount of time on non-value add activities
You may be unable to complete off-catalog requisitions – for services or non-standard products
You may be unable to capture the spend in purchases accurately

The Zycus e-Procurement solution, comprising of features like Catalog Management, Requisitions & Approvals, Purchase Orders and Supplier Portal helps you avoid such outcomes. Further, the user experience is driven to much higher levels of end-user adoption and compliance with our e-Procurement innovation - Guided Buying.

How We Help You

We start by understanding your business purchase processes.

We then empower our e Procurement solutions to deliver greater spend and process compliance across each step of the e Procurement process with these capabilities:

Guided procurement captures more spend, more accurately, with better usability
100% spend is classified as per the taxonomy to allow real-time spend analysis
On-boarding and management of suppliers from a single portal with no supplier fees to inhibit participation
“Drag-and-drop” workflow process and template configuration, tailored to the way you
run – or want to run – your business process

e-Procurement Software Features

It helps make the purchasing process easy through features that deal with various parts of the purchasing process, as follows:

Catalog Management

Artificial intelligence-based auto-classification of catalog items, including punch out items
End-to-end catalog life-cycle management including approvals and catalog update with versioning and change summary
eCatalogs and updates from the supplier portal can be reviewed, approved before publishing

Requisitions & Approvals

Shopping cart interface to buy catalog, punch out or non-catalog items, and a checkout process where all information is pre-loaded from user profile and default settings
E-mail alerts for all actions, as well as configurable summary of pending requests
Approvers can approve using any e-mail enabled smart-phone, without logging-in

Purchase Orders

Rules-based touch-less PO generation to automatically flip requisitions-to-PO
Configurable PO template to match existing format and branding, with an ability to e-mail the PO from within the system with audit trail and versioning for all amendments made to released orders
Facility to allow requestors or warehouse managers to directly receive goods against requisitions or orders

Supplier Portal

Platform for suppliers to publish regional, buyer-specific or global catalogs and punch outs
Facility for suppliers to view and confirm orders, create shipping notices and invoices by flipping the order on the portal
Electronic transmission of purchase orders and receipt of invoices