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What?
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ChemUnity's Sourcing Portal is a tool that allows purchase departments to structure the information gathered from their approved suppliers regarding offers and negotiations.
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For Whom?
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Manufacturers and distributors that have several approved suppliers for at least a few dozen products of which the price varies in time (chemicals, other raw materials, packaging, etc.) can save hundreds of thousands of euros with this tool by:
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Benefits:
Save time...
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Automating routine work:
 | Program the system to send out RFQs automatically every month, quarter or other interval and only get involved once you should start negotiating
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| Enable your suppliers to fill your database over the Internet for you
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| Easily exchange information between colleagues and locations by setting the right authorization levels
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...and money!
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Achieving better prices & terms:
| Visualize all current and past offers on a single screen (or graph) to support your negotiation efforts
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| See the evolution of bids through time and detect market-trends early-on
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| No need to single-source the smaller volumes since it requires no extra effort to involve all the relevant suppliers each time
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Complementary
to your ERP and
other initiatives
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Your ERP stores information about whom you bought from - the Sourcing Portal stores all offers, not just the winning ones. It is complementary to your ERP, book-keeping system or other fulfillment system - while the latter focus on order fulfillment once the purchase decision has been made, the Sourcing Portal focuses on the step before that, supporting you in your decision whom to buy from. Integration is relatively simple since the hand-over between the Sourcing Portal and your IT system can be made with one single XML-document (the purchase agreement).
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