A historic brick of the purchasing information system, deployed to facilitate and frame the ordering process, catalog management is finding a new youth. The explosion of consumer e-commerce combined with the search for savings have created new needs for purchases. Suddenly, several e-purchase publishers (B-pack, Ivalua, Oxalys Technologies, Pool4Tool, SynerTrade, etc.) have just announced...
Ariba distinguished by the Auchan group for Innovation "2.0".
The morning event organized at the end of March by the National Purchasing Council (CDAF) allowed stakeholders to explain the impact of technological solutions in the transformation of organizations. Driven to further computerize their processes, particularly to collaborate more effectively with the outside world, purchasing departments have a role to play in the cross-cutting digitalization movement.
Despite its benefits in terms of cost reduction and payment times, the acquisition card remains relatively confidential, especially in large private companies, which are reluctant to acquire an additional tool. Suppliers would also be reluctant to enter such a scheme. Often questioned on the subject as part of its missions to optimize the supply-to-pay chain, Acxias remains on active watch and follows the evolution of the offer in this area.
Calculating the return on investment of a project, managing performance and action plans: these are the two priority themes for purchasing departments when it comes to automating the function's processes. In any case, this is the result of the consultation launched at the beginning of January by Acxias, ahead of the second session of the Workshops of the Club of Actors in the Digitization of Purchasing.
In this movement, software players have clearly understood their interest, starting with the publishers of solutions dedicated to functions where the notion of contract is fundamental, purchases in mind.
The purchasing digitalization agency Acxias announces the deployment of two RPA (Robotic process automation) robots by Safran to automatically convert part of its purchase requests into orders, in SAP Ariba. The high-tech group's purchasing management had begun to address the opportunities offered by automated robotics in mid-2018, with the aim of improving and speeding up the processing of some of its stable and robust processes.
According to Forrester's latest study devoted to e-procurement, published in mid-2017, the market is dominated by five leaders.
Advantage to e-purchase solutions for services Nearly half of businesses (43%) would rely on their e-purchase solution to manage purchases of intellectual services and services, according to Ivalua's latest Purchasing Trends survey. Those equipped with such a solution but who do not use it in this context explain their choice ...
The new edition of the acxias barometer of e-purchase and e-procurement solutions highlights the strengths and weaknesses of the main publishers present in the French market. At the same time, it identifies various avenues for improvement in order to better lead and succeed in the computerization of the function.
