Regain Control of Your Purchasing Activities
Most enterprises have strict, centralized purchasing rules, but departments and offices around the world frequently buy from unapproved suppliers. Inefficient supply management operations can compound the problem. Companies can't enforce compliance globally because they lack up-to-date, fully integrated systems, standardized processes and a clear view of spending across all categories. Purchasing activities take far too much time and money – and it's impossible to identify ways to save.
End-To-End Supply Management
By transitioning your supply management activities to HP you can maximize your potential savings and gain a rapid return on investment without the burden of creating and maintaining an extensive infrastructure on your own. Our range of services includes category and supplier management, process management and technology management. With this comprehensive, highly flexible support, we cover your supply management from opening a requisition all the way through to settlement so you can focus on what's important to your business.
How It Works
HP transforms your purchasing and supply management through an approach that stresses ease of use, process efficiency and compliance.
We begin by helping you appraise your internal operations, comparing performance to industry benchmarks and creating a business case with alternatives. Then we build a solution that captures initial cost savings and delivers rapid return on your investment.
We add further value by implementing processes and technologies to sustain these savings over time. For example, we not only buy products and services on your behalf, but we also unify systems, automate processes and transactions and give you continuous, real-time access to detailed global spending information via online dashboards.
Features
- Category and supplier management: contract and supplier management, category expertise and catalog management
- Transaction processing: order processing and tracking, supplier invoices and payment, compliance control and user support
- Enabling technologies: process and transaction automation, decision-support systems, supplier connectivity and systems integration
What You Can Achieve
- Reduce unit and operational costs for procurement, using the savings to “self-fund” your investment or fund other initiatives
- Focus on your core competencies and transfer assets that aren't cost-effective to develop in-house
- Increase compliance with preferred suppliers, resulting in lower costs
- Improve spend visibility and create greater opportunities for savings through robust analytical approaches and tools
- Reduce costs using a total cost of ownership approach focused on all aspects of your procurement process
Why HP?
HP delivers all aspects of procurement – front-end transformation consulting, back-end technology upgrades and ongoing service delivery. We bring world-leading systems integration expertise and 45 years of proven vendor management experience across multiple industries. Year over year, HP manages $10 billion of spend on behalf of our clients while delivering service excellence that's second to none.
More Information
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