CommerceConnect

Is your finance department in danger of sinking under the weight of its paper?

Historically, managing hard copy based transactions manually has been an essential yet time-consuming and labour-intensive process. The whole purchase cycle, from creating a Purchase Order to sending a BACs remittance typically generates reams of unnecessary paper and consumes valuable office space when archived.

CommerceConnect is a secure and proven technology that can automate and speed up your purchasing requirements. Working in conjunction with bluQube, it is an e-purchasing module that allows users to send and receive purchasing documents electronically from the core finance system. It also has as the option of taking advantage of on-line marketplaces and the associated discounting and cost-savings that can be found there.

What are the key elements?

PDF Connector enables you to order goods and services electronically by e-mailing PDF documents direct from your finance system. This approach reduces the paper trail and eliminates the traditional delays of other methods such as post or fax.

XML Connector provides the additional functionality of end-to-end electronic purchasing with on-line marketplaces, so the whole transaction can be carried out directly from the finance system, without any manual or paper-based processes.

With CommerceConnect you can;

• Save on postage and all the costs associated with a paper-bound process
• Safely devolve the purchasing function to budget holders, empowering them to look after the delivery of their own products and services
• Eliminate the re-keying of data into the finance system as orders are created electronically
• Discourage maverick off-contract buying
• Reduce errors by selecting from supplier maintained catalogues and web-sites
• Take advantage of on-line marketplaces for best negotiated prices
• Purchase orders and BACs remittances are sent electronically

To see CommerceConnect in practice as part of a one hour demonstration, call us on 08456 447788. Alternatively, if you are in the process of gathering information on different vendors ahead of a systems review, our Evaluation Guide and Vendor Scorecard provide you with impartial and editable tools to help you through this stage of the process.