The broadcast of a fourth episode, at the beginning of April, closed the first season of “Purple”, the eventful mini-series on the world of purchases launched by Acxias at the beginning of the year. After the fundamentals of the business and the contribution of digital to optimize processes, the second season will focus on the relationship with suppliers.
Purple, the new event series launched by Acxias, has already succeeded in its bet: to offer an innovative media to communicate on Purchases, and present in a simple and synthetic way the contribution of digital technology for the function. "This, in a quirky and humorous way, on the principle of "Back to the future", by projecting a buyer from the 90s into our time, after a buyer from today has herself been teleported to the past. “, adds Line Yerro, in charge of the project and screenwriter of the program available on the YouTube channel of the society.
In fact, in the first episode, after having mysteriously joined the year 1991, Alma "landed" in the office of Mr. Brown, a buyer overwhelmed by his workload, still mainly done manually or on simple office tools. She explains to him how, in 2023, a digital purchasing solution will simplify and secure operations, with a reduction in costs and processing times. The following episodes detail the advantages of such a solution for the purchasing, procurement and supplier accounting teams, but also for the applicants (specifiers, end users), then discuss the calculation of the return on investment of a digital purchasing project.
Projected into the past, Alma explains to Mr. Brown and 20th century buyers the principles of e-procurement and the way in which digital technology makes it possible to manage and automate processing. With the key, a reduction in the administrative burden and additional gains.
Alma and Mr. Brown, back in our contemporary world, continue their adventures. What a surprise for Mr. Brown to discover the technological developments that have emerged over the past 30 years, and the capabilities of digital solutions in the field of procurement.
Mr. Brown discovers with surprise that the paper invoices will soon disappear. Law of modernization of the economy, advantages of e-invoicing, possibilities offered by the Invoice 4.0 solution in SAP Ariba: Alma explains the essentials to him with great pedagogy and patience.
After the fundamentals, Alma details the benefits and costs of deploying a digital purchasing solution, to calculate the "return on investment" or ROI, before initiating the project. To simplify the work, she advises Mr. Brown to call on specialized service providers.
As soon as it was posted on YouTube, Purple was a real success. "The feedback was immediately very positive," says Line Yerro, particularly through likes, shares or comments on social networks. “This is the story of my entire professional life! “, for example reacted a purchasing manager within a large French company in the building materials sector. For her part, a solutions specialist at a major software publisher hails the "brilliant idea" that Acxias had of "popularizing e-procurement with a mini-series allowing everyone to find out more about the , tools, etc. without getting bored! ". And asks all those who are "not fans of the 3-hour webinars not to be missed" to support innovative content of this type.
Everyone is free to think like her, or not, and to hope for a sequel. At Acxias in any case, the message got through. From September, Purple will be back for a new season of four episodes. The series will this time offer a focus on the relationship and collaboration with suppliers, always seen through the prism of the digitalization of the purchasing and supply processes: sourcing and call for tenders, referencing and contracting, ordering and shipping. or risk management and invoicing-payment. An appointment not to be missed !