Project Management
Complete visibility of all projects: From status to history, gain full insight into your source-to-contract activities with Scanmarket by Unit4's Project Management solution
Everything you need to know about your projects
With integration into all Scanmarket by Unit4 solutions, gain full visibility of sourcing project data, from source-to-contract. Allocate resources effectively to ensure projects are delivered on time and in full.
Key features & capabilities
Visualize the Sourcing Process
Build your plan on the customizable project board to visually present processes. Identify areas that need attention with color indicators for project statuses such as an upcoming deadline or being passed due for action.
Approval Workflow
Ensure transparency with automated stakeholder task workflows. Allow all project participants to stay informed with access to shared project details and approvals-based signoffs at critical project phases.
Integrated Solution Hub
Manage all aspects of the Source-to-Contract cycle including sourcing, negotiation, award, contracting, performance management, and savings tracking. Invite stakeholders to communicate through this central hub.
Project Plan and Resource Allocation
Manage and plan your project pipeline and resource allocation. Delegate key objectives and tasks to internal and external stakeholders.
Data-driven Benchmarking and Continuous Improvement
Collect and report any metadata. Benchmark your current baseline against key metrics and develop improvement strategies based on data-rich takeaways.
Project Requests
Automatically import stakeholder-populated forms into the project repository. Review the project team requests, communicate with stakeholders, and approve or reject the request.
Project Management in action
Bringing everything together
Manage all aspects of the source-to-contract cycle with fully integrated applications including sourcing, negotiation, award, contracting of goods and services, performance management and savings tracking.
Gain a complete overview of all projects: progress, status, stakeholders, stage, notes, metadata, and documents - with auditable history for full compliance.
Customize a solution that works for you
Make changes faster and easier with in-house configuration. Configure the columns you’d like to see with a simple drag-and-drop feature.
Save your own pre-filtered views, customize the names of the views, and favorite the ones more frequently used. Filter and search on every meta-data field to find the projects you are looking for.
Create accessible projects
With effective intake management, stakeholders can easily request new sourcing initiatives. Review the project team requests, communicate with stakeholders, and approve or reject the request. Ensure transparency with automated stakeholder task workflows.
Allow all project participants to stay informed with access to shared project details and approvals-based signoffs at critical project phases.
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Frequently asked questions
How can I keep all stakeholders informed?
Procurement Project Management offers a transparent process, with customized and automated stakeholder task workflows to ensure all project team members are kept informed, with access to shared project details and the ability to sign off at important project phases.
Can I customize my views and reporting for better resource management?
Adapt your views entirely to your individual needs, and search, filter, save and generate excel reports according to your requirements. Use the numerous search and filter options such as deadlines, status, criticality, spend and/or savings potential, or resource requirements, to find exactly what is needed. At any stage of a search, it is possible to export all data to Excel, and continue the drill-down in a fully editable Excel report.
How can I view past activities in the event of a change in project leadership?
Our supply chain project management tool features include, the ability to Manage, invite, and communicate directly with your stakeholders, ensuring all communication is tracked and stored in one single repository for full project history and straightforward project lead handovers.
Can I integrate with other Scanmarket software products?
The Project Management software is fully integrated with other Scanmarket applications. Easily create an RFx or auction directly from a project, for example, when the project reaches a supplier qualification or supplier negotiation step, links will be created between the different collaboration tools to ensure easy navigation with the project being the stepping stone between the different applications.
When adding suppliers to the project, you will have direct access to the Supplier Risk & Performance Management (SRPM) application and be able to link the supplier profile in SRPM to the project, making it easy for you to manage your supplier relationships, and to conduct procurements. When finalizing a project in the contract implementation step, you can create a contract directly from the project, and ensure links between all applications from start to finish in the source-to-contract process.
Which type of support do you provide?
We provide 24/5 Quick Call support for your internal users and suppliers.
Quick Call support is not like your typical support desk. With Scanmarket, you have direct access to our global team of expert source-to-contract consultants who can resolve your issues rapidly. We often hear from our customers that Scanmarket's Quick Call support is the best in the industry.
Quick Call support is available to customers, suppliers, and other stakeholders. 85% of Quick Calls are answered in less than a minute, and 95% are answered within five minutes.
