Purchasing process

How to control your purchasing process?

Purchasing process

Mastering your purchasing process process has become a real challenge within companies. There are simple management solutions that can help companies to manage their purchasing process.

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Controlling your purchasing process: a simple management solution

Thanks to a management software,gain in purchasing performance and manage in all simplicity:

✔ The follow-up contracts and the connection with market prices

✔ The tracking of the price variancecoverage rates and currency effects

✔ The tracking of savings associated

✔ The budget steering and measuring the impacts on P&L

Controlling your purchasing process: 6 turnkey features for efficient management

Sourcing

Automated link, capture and market alert

Validation

Automated notification and validation workflow

Contract

List and statutes. Warning on coverage rates

Restitution

Global dashboard and list by subject/contract

Update & Simulations

Global vision with the ability to simulate assumptions

Other business enablers

Consistency check,
currency management

What are the advantages of controlling your purchasing process?

network

Centralize information to facilitate the sharing of impacts and purchasing decisions

clock

Anticipate changes and decide more quickly in the market

anticipate

Analyze the performance of decisions and evaluate their impact in real time

A purchasing process adapted to all

buyer

Project & Global Buyer

✔ Manage purchasing and hedging contracts

✔ Secure sourcing and pricing

✔ Improve performance on its scope

director

Purchasing Manager (CPO)

✔ Guarantee performance and sourcing

✔ Making sure the sustainability of relationships with suppliers

✔ Optimise the global purchasing strategy according to the markets and forecasts 

financial controller

Management controller

✔ Integrate purchasing impacts on P&L and performance financial

✔ Consolidate impacts

✔ Share the vision of the impacts with managers and the CODIR

Case study: How does a food company manage its purchases?

Agri-food

Context

  • Health crisis exit (Covid-19)
  • Inflation: significant cost increases 
  • Families impacted : PET, Alu

Issue

How to secure the margin?

Issues

  • Leading the purchasing team's action plans
  • Calculate the final drift
  • Move to a tariff increase to maintain margin
  • Putting in place an action plan

Business Benefits

Limiting the negative impact on margins of price increases

How does ezyachats facilitate piloting?

  • ezyachatsautomates the collection of market and YTD information
  • The buyer can see on a synthetic screen his deviations from his budget
  • The buyer adjusts the impact through his negotiation actions of reformulation, ...
  • ezyachatstherefore allows you to visualise the impact of actions and decisions taken in 1 click

What is the added value of ezyperf :

  • Data collection is automated
  • Analyses are simplified
  • Actions are updated in real time
  • The visual ergonomics facilitate a better understanding of the control

User benefits

  • Buyers saved 25% in data crunching and errors
  • Risks are appropriately mapped
  • Actions are steered in a collaborative manner

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the added value of ezyperf :

A unique know-how and a turnkey service service based on 3 fundamentals:

  • Listening and adaptability To act in depth, in a sustainable manner while successfully participating in change management.
  • Co-construction To perfectly meet present and future needs.
  • The accompaniment (Before, during and after): To ensure the success of the change & the use of best practices by our experts in the transformation.

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