Buyers

Buyer-side benefits

The benefits of implementing your e-procurement system in association with @UK are considerable...

Flexibility
@UK can provide a complete purchase-to-pay system or add a marketplace to access all your suppliers onto an existing purchase to pay software.

Reduced administration
All steps in the ordering process can become paperless. Best of all, manual 3-way matching of invoices can be eliminated.

Lower item costs
The reductions in errors, order taking costs and processing that your suppliers enjoy mean that it is legitimate for you to ask for a share of those savings. At the same time because the @UK system makes it very easy to share contracts /arrangements across several buying bodies, you can often access very attractive joint terms.

Buy services more competitively
An“RFP” (Request For Price) system comes free with all @UK marketplaces . Buyers can within a matter of moments create a description of their need and send this out to any number of suitable potential suppliers which have been pre-set within the system ( see also Pre-Qualification ). All responses can then be easily compared and the successful RFP turned straight into a firm order.

Better analysis and future tendering
Real time information is available from any @UK marketplace as to amounts spent by buying centre, supplier item etc so as to allow careful monitoring of spend and accurate future tendering. This is even easier and more accurate if a supplier neutral coding system is in place

Easy implementation
Because requisitioners will be creating suggested orders from a web screen just as if they were shopping for groceries etc, there is very little training required.

Solution for all sizes and types of supplier
@UK has a solution for any supplier, whatever their existing technology (or lack of it). This ranges from providing an easy to maintain trading website from just £48 p.a.for sole traders to linking up with large and complex trading websites like RS Components and Lyreco.