搜索最佳结果并购买更智能

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其中一个销售规则是,如果客户不知道产品或在购物时无法在架子上看到它,他们永远不会买它。

因此,分发系统对任何业务都很重要。供应商可以拥有世界上最好的产品或服务,但如果它从未出现过某处最终用户可以意识到它,它就不会被购买。因此,物流专业人士在物理供应链中称之为“最后一英里”的重要性 - 运输方式的最终腿为消费者提供产品或服务。

最后一英里的概念也适用于企业购买。卓越的采购过程和系统必须确保购买的最终用户可以找到最适合其需求的产品或服务,并遵守公司的政策和目标。这需要超越仅仅是一系列以前谈判的内部目录,意味着为员工订购商品。采购中的数字转型可以帮助公司解决最后一英里并解锁业务价值。

In this final article of this series, we discuss this digital transformation and explain how organizations can enable systems to help end users know what to buy and how to easily purchase it.

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Buying Smarter

It’s fair to say that spend control processes have always been part of procurement’s DNA, and some organizations are hesitant to give up that control in favor of greater stakeholder flexibility. But this is an outdated way of thinking.

也许比花费控制或花费管理更重要的是聪明的。在大多数情况下,购买更聪明的是不仅仅是定价。相反,价格往往只是一个更广泛的购买方程的一个元素,可以评估对组织的整体影响,只需支付给供应商的金额。一个供应商可以提供似乎较低的成本。但该号码可能不会因素不具备额外的成本,例如物流和运输,或与供应商有延迟问题的已知风险的因素,或者经常具有返回货物的包装错误。

购买更智能是关于通过分析和比较所有购买选项来保护用户和业务的最高价值;确保您选择的选项与您公司的合同,政策和业务规则保持一致;剩余在您的业务部门的既定预算范围内;当然,履行用户的业务需求。

然而,购买更智能的最重要元素是能够搜索和找到所有可行的选择,并通过适当的信息来补充它们,以比较和分析潜在的购买。支持此功能的核心要求是具有100%的准确实时数据。

寻找最佳结果

In procurement, the last mile means delivering negotiated content, and potentially broader market data, to the end-user’s screen — usually within an e-marketplace (e-store) connected to an end-to-end e-procurement solution. The effectiveness of the e-marketplace largely depends on how easily the user can apply keywords, filters or specific data to search between all available catalogs (internal, external and public) and bring the results from the search into a screen that presents key data in real-time for analysis and comparison.

该过程的有效性取决于如何存储或访问购买数据,如何使用多种属性和支持细节以及以消耗格式显示的方式。这允许在竞争环境中进行比较。

但是,还有另一个能力来帮助用户在搜索过程中找到最佳结果:指导用户朝着最佳采购选项的系统,如通过可确保在决策过程中优先考虑的采购函数的采购功能。这是配置工作流程和业务规则的能力进入混音的地方,以允许在强制执行政策和业务规则的环境中购物。

在今天的市场中,电子采购解决方案具有不同水平的逐步更高的搜索能力。这些包括:

  • 那些只搜索内部的人,或者有时被称为托管目录
  • 那些可以在外部目录中搜索的人(通常在供应商自己的网站上),但不是直接来自市场。用户需要知道是否在电子采购中或“打出”到供应商网站的产品或服务,如果是的话,哪一个。然后,用户必须转到供应商的在线商店以运行搜索,然后将所选产品或服务带回电子采购,以完成申请过程。这被称为1级打液。
  • Those that can store some of the information from an external supplier catalog inside the e-procurement system. This is often called Level 2 punch-out. The e-procurement search engine can find these products or services within users’ searches and can be compared with others results. There are several drawbacks to this approach because storing this information requires constant updating to avoid differences while processing the order, the user still must go to the external site to verify price, and many suppliers don’t support Level 2 punch-outs at all.
  • 那些可以从某些外部供应商网站访问的实时数据,并可以同时在内部和外部目录中搜索,可以访问提供它的供应商的数据。这需要不同类型的集成过程来确保实时数据更新,并要求供应商合作启用它。
  • 那些可以在任何内部或外部目录或市场上搜索产品和服务的人(无需任何类型的整合或商业协议)。这些搜索过程以与级别1和级别的方式类似的方式工作,但不同的是,由于不需要商业协议,而且搜索能力必须能够将所需的采购数据带入其中征用过程。

自我评估

智能购买可以是一个有争议的概念,特别是当它缺席时意味着相反的购买类型正在发生。

But if procurement sets aside concerns of the occasional ruffled feather, a candid dialogue can occur within an organization. The concept of buying smarter introduces the possibilities that e-procurement solutions offer to organizations. This includes a transformed experience where purchases are用实时数据制作,所有可用的供应商选项在最佳的经济方面比较,所有风险都最大限度地减少,并且始终确保符合业务政策和规则的遵守情况。

作为自我评估对其购买做法的智能,采购领导人可以寻找以下关于电子采购方法的基础支柱。

  • E-catalogs as a dynamic and integrated source of real-time data that enables all purchasing scenarios. Sometimes an integration within a supplier’s systems is required to assure real time data while purchasing. The e-catalog is a key part of any e-procurement solution and goes beyond a static list of items, prices and features of products and services.
  • An e-marketplace (e-store) with an easy to use interface. All available sources a (e.g., internal or external catalogs, e-forms, lists, kits, bundles, templates, policies, etc.) are accessed by a powerful search engine. Search results are returned to a single interface that display alerts and real-time data to support the comparison of the results and to enable a good buying decision.
  • Advanced requisitioning mechanisms with a real-time guided buying approach. A requisitioning process linked to e-catalogs and e-marketplaces enables procurement to bring more spend under management, while at the same time to guide users to a cost-optimized approach in a simplified manner (guided buying) and to enable compliance with internal policies and procedures (e.g., online help, workflows and business rules). This requisitioning process is normally integrated with other enterprise systems (e.g., IMS, WMS, CLM, SLM) to fulfill all requirements as part of a comprehensive digital transformation strategy.

成功实施这些原则将符合公司采购中最后一英里的挑战。为了通过现代搜索技术提供更好的购买经验,同时通过指导员工向正确的产品和服务推动业务价值,不仅仅是一个先进的采购策略 - 它只是简单的聪明。

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