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Within a corporate environment, the cost to a consumer of placing an order for basic office supplies can easily exceed £50. Given an average order value of below £100, that means at least one third of the total cost of their order is for process rather than product. That is why with an e-procurement system that can reduce the £50 cost to below £10, you are able to compete for corporate account business.
Clic2epro (e-procurement) has all of the features and benefits of clic2office, plus the following;
- Where clic2office views each user as a separate account, clic2epro can consolidate multiple users into one account. This means that the system can handle an infinite number of users, departments, cost centres and locations within a single company
- In clic2office there is no need for a dealer to logon in order to view the catalogues. In clic2epro all users must logon so that the system recognises both them as an individual and their company.
- The epro site is set up differently for each company so that the user sees a site that matches their own company image, with their logo, corporate colour etc.
- The ranges displayed are the ones that you agree with the customer, and you display contracted prices for each company.
- The customer has the facility to set up their own users so that they can add or remove authorised purchasers to the system.
- Each new user can be assigned to a cost centre, have a monthly budget and single order limit, and can be set up so that their orders are authorised prior to being sent to you.
- The range displayed to each user can be varied, so that for example, the catering department cannot buy PCs whilst the PC department cannot buy beverages.
- Each user has access to online reports showing their own;
- Product usage
- Financial summary
- Orders with individual line detail
- Authorisers and managers can see the same reports for their own activity and as a summary of all of those below them in the hierarchy. Reports are displayed by user and by cost centre.
It was agreed at The Lisbon Conference that all Governments would buy online by 2005. All FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies now buy online and this trend is moving downwards to smaller corporate companies and larger SMEs. Companies that cannot supply online within the next two years will find it increasingly difficult to retain their current business and also to win new accounts of any note.
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