To facilitate and speed up the digitalization of purchases, new tools called DAP (Digital adoption platform) propose to accompany users in the handling of their applications, in addition to or in place of traditional training and learning methods (tutorials, presentation courses, e-learning, webinars, etc.), tedious and time-consuming to be set up.
To meet the growing demand from companies for robotic solutions for their purchasing, procurement and accounting suppliers, Acxias has just established a dedicated RPA (Robotic Process Automation) expertise centre. Comprised of a team of several engineers specializing in Source-to-contract and Procure-to-pay, this center aims to facilitate projects to automate repetitive and tedious operations, to maximize gains.
More than 500 purchasing decision-makers, DAF and DSI had ticked the date in their agenda. On the evening of Thursday, May 21, six publishers and e-purchase providers (BravoSolution, Coupa, Ivalua, MyProcurement, SAP-Ariba, SynerTrade) were able to present their vision of the offer and the projects in front of a packed house, in the preamble to the presentation of a White Paper on the function's information systems.
To automatically convert part of its purchase requests into orders, the international high-tech group has opted for RPA (Robotic process automation) robots, implemented by Acxias.
Almost unanimously, purchasing-logistics and IT executives recognize the benefit of this up-and-going decision-making technology in their field. However, only 17% say they have implemented a big data solution. The approach aims to facilitate the combined exploitation of information already held by the company, in more or less structured form, and information from multiple external sources, in various and varied formats.
Près de trois entreprises sur quatre (73 %) disposeraient aujourd’hui d’une direction des achats indirects, selon la 4ème édition de l’unique enquête consacrée à ce sujet, réalisée chaque année en marge de l’événement Achats Indirects & Digital Meet-up organisé par l’agence de digitalisation des achats Acxias et le cabinet Ressource Consulting. Elles étaient 61 % dans ce cas en 2017, et seulement 44 % en 2016.
Putting forward an effective purchasing, accounting and finance strategy will increasingly involve choosing the tools best suited to the profile of your company and its short and long-term objectives.
A brief overview by Acxias, who walked the aisles and followed a few presentations of the 2018 edition of the Solutions e-Achats trade show for you.
In recent years, the "financialization" of the purchasing function, and therefore of its tools, has been underway. In turn, the major publishers in the e-purchase market are integrating payment services to help contractors prevent the risk of financial failure of their suppliers, especially the most fragile.
the General Data Protection Regulation of the European Union has entered into force, therefore, all companies whose head office is based in Europe, but also all those who handle personal information collected in the Union, must be in accordance with the new text.
