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    Guided Buying

    Turn your shopping platform into an intuitive navigation center

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    Comparison OCI Punchout

    OCI or content catalog? Find out which solution really makes your purchasing processes efficient.

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    Spend Analytics

    No more guesswork: Use crystal-clear spend analyses for measurably better negotiation results.

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    Suppliers

    Supplier onboarding with DIG: Seamlessly integrate over 400 catalog suppliers into your eProcurement solution for efficient purchasing.

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    Why do companies need eProcurement?

    Although classic C-part procurement (indirect spending) usually only accounts for 5 to 10% of the value, it generates up to 80% of process costs. Especially in economically challenging times, this lever should be used to reduce costs, optimize the supplier structure, increase security of supply in the supply chain and act more dynamically as an organization overall!

    eProcurement: One search, all suppliers

    Imagine you could search through all your suppliers with a single search. Catalogs, live webshops, marketplaces and internal product ranges, all combined on one platform.

    At its heart is Elastic Search, a globally proven enterprise search technology. It not only searches static catalogs, but also taps into your suppliers' live webshops. In real time and with intelligent weighting according to your preferences.

    Your employees immediately receive the most relevant hits, automatically sorted according to your negotiation conditions. A free text ordering system is available for items outside the catalogs.
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    The interaction of ERP and SLM to fulfill the regulations

    ERP integration

    Order data flows seamlessly into existing administrative processes

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    Supplier registration

    Preference control

    Steering to preferred suppliers
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    Outsourcing master data updates to the supplier

    Automated approval

    Value limits and workflows route orders to the right decision-makers
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    Hybrid catalogs

    Static catalogs, live webshops and marketplaces on one platform
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    Interdepartmental

    Each user only sees relevant catalogs according to their authorization
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    Complex supplier structures

    Manage all suppliers centrally, from specialist dealers to industry partners

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    Regular questions on digital procurement

    Find out in a nutshell what Catalog Procurement from DIG can do and what is important in digital procurement.

    • The introduction of eProcurement often provides companies with an overview of their requirements, spendings and suppliers in the C-parts segment for the first time. This allows requirements to be bundled and better purchasing conditions to be achieved, suppliers to be structured efficiently and all procurements to be mapped via a transparent system

    • Regardless of its value, every order incurs process costs, which are made up of the effort involved in identifying the requirement, creating the purchase requisition, selecting the supplier and creating the order. According to various studies, such an ordering process costs between 100 and 300 euros (depending on the company organization). This results in enormous savings potential. eProcurement also enables strategic tasks to be performed that make a far greater contribution to value creation.

      Specifically, significant costs are incurred in these analog process steps:

      - analogous approval processes

      - queries to specify requirements

      - Manual order approval

      - Manual query of order status

      - High effort for evaluations for optimization

    • eProcurement shifts operational procurement to the (approved) requisitioner. The latter can order in the intuitive system exactly according to the purchasing department's specifications: i.e. only approved products, from defined dealers, within budget, etc. The respective signature guidelines of the company are strictly adhered to - an order can therefore require approvals that are individually defined by the company (depending on the role in the company, value limit, product group, etc.). As a result, all order processes are transparent and traceable, compliance requirements are met and error rates are reduced. The transparent approval process also makes it clear when an approval is outstanding, for example, so that requesters and approvers are always informed.

    • The digital workflow speeds up the ordering process and makes organizations more agile overall. The transparency of open tasks (e.g. approvals) also creates commitment. In addition, the entire ordering process is documented so that information and data are also available retrospectively.

    • For eProcurement solutions from DIG, interfaces can be created for virtually all ERP systems available on the market. This means that all procurement processes can be integrated directly into the respective ERP and linked to the respective financial accounting and invoice processing.

    • Tail spend" refers to individual or ad hoc orders with a low volume. These are often bypassed by purchasing - with all the known negative consequences of maverick buying. Conversely, it is also unprofitable to map all conceivable requirements in retail catalogs.

      To solve this problem, DIG offers two options: On the one hand, missing products in the eProcurement offer can be requested in a structured manner via a free text request (in SAP BANF). In this way, the given structures are adhered to even in the case of special requirements. Nevertheless, undesirable costs can arise because these individual orders are often placed with different suppliers, which causes accounting expenses. If this results in shadow assortments, it also makes compliance more difficult.

      This is why DIG offers a second way to manage the tail spend: Connecting marketplaces such as Unite opens up an enormous range of products to cover these requirements in one fell swoop - and with just one creditor thanks to the single creditor principle.

    • eProcurement is constantly evolving due to changing requirements. One way of requesting missing items in a structured manner is the free text form. With predefined mandatory fields, this guarantees that the description follows clear guidelines, i.e. the purchasing department receives all the necessary information for procurement. The requester also creates a G/L account and material group. If desired, the free text form can also be activated for certain user groups only. Depending on the defined process, the entry is then processed further as an electronic order or electronic purchase requisition (BANF).

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