Purchasing

Streamline and automate your purchasing processes while enforcing pricing terms to ensure a steady flow of materials

Boost purchasing efficiency and productivity
Minimize material shortages
Improve supplier performance
Mitigate supply risks

Cost-cutting pressure - Your team is under pressure to cut costs, eliminate non-value-added activities and focus on continuous purchasing process improvements
Ineffective collaboration - A lack of coordination and communication with internal stakeholders and suppliers results in increased risk and business disruption for your organization
Complex and manual processes - Relying on manual communication methods increases purchasing cycle times, burdens your buyers and increases the likelihood of NPI delays

Capabilities

Automation

QAD’s solution streamlines and manages the purchasing process throughout requisition entry, requisition approval, PO creation, PO approval, PO print, PO receipt and invoice payment.

Collaboration

Facilitate communication and coordination between your organization and suppliers while reducing error-prone, manual purchasing processes.

Exception management

Automatic alerts notify your buyers, planners or other stakeholders of any purchasing issues requiring immediate attention.

Performance measurement

Your team can track and report supplier performance against defined metrics and key indicators, enabling supplier management and constant monitoring about quality and performance.

Assign different PO and requisition approval levels based on the appropriate authorization level
Support different types of orders and contracts including supplier price lists, blanket orders, discrete purchase orders and supplier scheduled orders
Provide reliable requirements to suppliers allowing them to order raw materials, plan production and improve on-time deliveries
Accurately track orders
Schedule supplier milk runs to reduce freight costs and improve transportation efficiency
Track purchasing spend by commodity, product, product group, supplier and other factors
Access procurement analytics to gain key insights and enhance decision making
Streamline invoice processing to reduce workload, minimize errors and speed supplier payment

QAD improves the purchasing process and provides anywhere, anytime approvals for POs and requisitions.

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When it comes to purchasing management, performance monitoring is critical to operational success.

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Further Information

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Key Challenges

Capabilities

Purchasing

Battery Manufacturer Streamlines Workload, Reduces Costs and Gains Efficiencies

SMR Tracks and Measures the Purchasing Process

Further Information

Actionable Insights: Purchasing Inventory Effectiveness

Collaborative Supplier Relationships Mitigate Supply Risks

Automating Procurement and Supplier Relations to Alleviate ESG Concerns

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