Electronic Procurement Systems Technology Evaluation

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Electronic ProcurementSystems Technology
Evaluation

• FA13 Procurement
• Victoria Brideau
• Karan Daryanani
• Amy Griffin
• Eric Johnson
• Chantelle Snyder
• Ting Wen

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Procurement NEEDS at petGRO

• Gone E
• Need access to real time information
• Transactions are web based
• Implemented JIT philosophy
• Simplification and efficiency
• Inventory management
• Integrated with Nestle
• Build relationship with buyers and suppliers
• Capitalize on relationship with buyers and
  suppliers

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Competitive Necessity

• Comparative necessity- majority of businesses do
  use e-procurement strategies, which is the best
  cost savings for the business
• Research groups concluded that e-sourcing could
  save businesses millions/billions a year almost
  5- 35 return on ROI depending on the size of
  the company

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Electronic Procurement Systems

• JD Edwards /Oracle iProcurement

• Aestiva Procurement

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JD Edwards/Oracle iProcurement

• Web-based system that allows employees to create,
  manage, and track their own orders while we
  retain central control
• Ensure that policies and preferred pricing
  agreements are reflected in every transaction

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Benefits of JD Edwards/Oracle iProcurement

• Streamline employee ordering
• improve productivity and control
• Eliminate error-prone paper processes
• Enforce spending policy
• Slash procurement costs
• -eg. Ametek Inc. cut procurement costs by up to
  14
• Web-based system
• Web-shopping interface

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Drawbacks of JD Edwards/OracleiProcurement

• Intended for use in Oracle ERP systems, and does
  not integrate well with SAP
• Extra training required
• Consistent use within supplier/buyer groups
  required

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JD Edwards/Oracle iProcurement
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Aestiva Procurement System

• Founded in 1996
• A 100 web-based software solution
• Aestiva software is used in over one thousand
  companies and organizations

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Aestivas Benefits

• Streamlining office procurement processes
• Includes important reporting and security
  features
• Excellent flexibility
• Require less training (adaptive towards on line
  training)
• Can be installed on more kinds of servers, and
  work with kinds of browsers
• Systems used by well known corporations
• 95 of companies that purchase Aestiva programs
  purchase and utilize to full potential

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Aestiva Leveraged across petGRO

• Flexibility
• Balance between centralization/decentralization
• Choses best approach for procurement purchases
  for specific departments
• Best-of-Breed functionality
• effective savings and minimizing costs
• Automatically enforce and audit all savings
• Aestiva is designed for mid-sized to large
  organizations considering that Nestle purchased
  petGRO
• Efficiency
• streamline the purchasing process so businesses
  can focus more time on earning revenue and
  serving customers

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Overall Organizational Effectiveness
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Aestiva Contact Information

• Sales Representative
• Eric Villicana
• evillicana_at_aestiva.com
• 1-888-237-8482