During an online seminar for medium-sized companies, Acxias and SAP recalled the levers offered by digital to improve the performance of purchasing, the supply chain and accounts payable. The solution Ariba Snap, preconfigured specifically for implementation in 2 or 3 months, accelerates the deployment of Procure-to-pay best practices and user adoption, with controlled costs.
Purchases that do not respect the rules for committing expenditure, made without a competitive process and from non-referenced suppliers, giving rise to invoices without orders, leading to disputes and late payments, etc. If purchases in ETI ( Medium-sized company) face the same challenges as in large groups, these expenses described as "wild" are much more frequent and significant in proportion. The reason ? " Of the Process generally less supervised and deployed in the field, due to a lack of resources and time", according to Bertrand Gabriel, director in charge of development at Acxias, who co-organized in mid-March then at the beginning of April with SAP Ariba A Webinar on the theme "Take back control of your wild expenses and digitize your purchasing processes in less than 3 months".
This online seminar, to which more than 100 purchasing and finance managers had registered, enabled participants working in ETIs to better understand the levers at their disposal to maximize the performance of the function and reduce uncontrolled purchases. An express survey carried out at the start of the session also confirmed the main difficulties encountered by these companies in terms of purchases, in the first place a large number of expenses spent outside the process and without orders.
Although often confronted with the same purchasing challenges as large groups, ETIs come up against less robust support functions for purchasing, finance and management control, as well as a lesser knowledge and receptivity of operational actors towards - vis-à-vis the company's rules for incurring expenses and good purchasing practices. The multiplicity of employees able to directly solicit local suppliers outside the purchasing framework leads in particular to fragmented and uncontrolled expenditure.
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