Overview of Company Procurement Initiatives across all Departments
A Scanmarket Use Case on Project Management
A cloud-based shared repository that provides an overview of all procurement initiatives.
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Challenge
Provide an overview of company procurement initiatives across all departments, while tracking project status, savings, and keeping all involved participants and stakeholders informed.
Solution
- A single cloud based shared repository that grants users with full visibility into all existing projects, and access to all internal notes, files, and communication.
- Allow users to fully define their procurement process, whether it be a standard 7 or 10 step process, or any custom one.
- Grant users with full visibility into their sourcing process on a Kanban board.
- Allow users to search, filter, save, and generate excel reports according to their requirements.
- Enable users to set-up project templates with custom fields, savings, and tracking.
- Enable users to store any data on a project template including key stakeholders, standard documents, mandatory fields, or pre-defined tasks, whilst ensuring full compliance and traceability.
- Allow users to allocate projects and tasks to internal and external stakeholders.
- Allow users to link any project to the current contract or ongoing eSourcing event.
- Enable users to initiate any new sourcing events directly from any project.
- Streamline the process for internal business stakeholders to submit requests, ensuring that all data is seamlessly integrated into the project repository.
Benefits
- Reduced cycle times.
- Better visibility into project status.
- Quick approvals, workflow, and structured processes.
- Notification of upcoming deadlines and delays.
- Better compliance with established processes, templates, and procedures.
- Roadmap that is easy to follow from start to end.