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A common theme in my time with the NLPA has been how to go about reigning in maverick spending within an organization.\u00a0Eyvo Procurement takes this business inefficiency head-on with its eBuyerAssist eProcurement system.<\/p>\n
Eyvo Procurement is designed to allow employees to purchase the items they need with proper oversight in place by assigned business rules enforced by the system itself.\u00a0 Thus, maverick spending is immediately stopped in its tracks, allowing for higher up approvers and management professionals to allow or disallow particular purchases. \u00a0Auditing is a critical feature throughout eBuyerAssist allowing for many areas to be tracked with custom reporting features.<\/p>\n
The eBuyerAssist user interface is very intuitive and looks very much like a standard paper purchase order.This design is based on a recommendation from a large customer who suggested the paper PO look.\u00a0 During our demo presentation, Michael Petter, Managing Director at Eyvo Procurement, stressed the importance of client input into the design and upgrades to the system. It was quite easy to follow along with eBuyerAssist upon first look at the system and navigating through the various screens.<\/p>\n
Management approvals for purchase orders can be done via email or on a smart phone\/tablet device. Approvers can actually check budgets in a pop up to see if he or she should\u00a0approve or reject item(s).<\/p>\n
The system also includes something Eyvo Procurement refers to as \u201cSanity Check approvals\u201d for items that not only are allowed financially, but in the case of IT (for example) are supported by the group.\u00a0Thus, before a final approval for purchasing servers is finished, specific IT personnel\/executives are contacted to give their final approval or rejection of the item.\u00a0 This is a great way to build trust between the procurement department and the Information Technology department in this case.<\/p>\n
In the course of\u00a0our discussion of eBuyerAssist, Ray Anderson, Client Relations Manager for Eyvo Procurement, pointed out, \u201cEyvo Procurement has developed a class leading supply chain management solution as an integrated set of tools that provide the full \u201cReq-to-check\u201d experience for requestors, buyers, approvers and vendors ; Our eBuyerAssist system has the power and features to get transactions put through with the highest efficiency allowing all our users to easily see the status of their work at any stage ; yet despite that power, the system is simple both to use and deploy at a reasonable cost.\u201d<\/p>\n
Eyvo Procurement is a very modular product, thus there is no need to purchase multiple modules that your business will never use.\u00a0 While this is overstating the obvious, I have personally run into vendors who practically force you to purchase additional modules using unscrupulous scare tactics.<\/p>\n
Mr. Petter stated that many of their clients find Oracle and SAP eProcurement too difficult to use so they turn to eBuyerAssist for their eProcurement needs.\u00a0eBuyerAssist easily integrates into SAP or Oracle financials making payments to suppliers much easier.<\/p>\n
Eyvo Procurement offers a vendor portal where vendors can login, upload catalogs (level 1 and level 2 Punchouts are available) and attach other documents such as licenses, certificates and permits of sale. You can do complex historical analysis of vendors comparing and contrasting different fields and criteria to assure the best possible choices for your business.<\/p>\n
Eyvo Procurement is offered as a fully integrated cloud-based SaaS eProcurement system that is hosted within their data center except for clients who require cloud-based hosting on their own servers.\u00a0 eBuyerAssist is sold as a standard, off the shelf platform which is utilized by 65% of their customer base while 35% of clients request customized services.\u00a0 It runs Microsoft SQL server 2012 on the IIS platform.\u00a0 Client training is offered via webinar or an onsite visit to the client site.<\/p>\n
Many of Eyvo Procurement\u2019s main customers are service solution providers, but they also have a strong banking and manufacturing client-base.\u00a0 Clients include BMW, Morgan Stanley, Sofitel the Palm Luxury Dubai Hotel and Haliburton International among others.<\/p>\n
In regards to client satisfaction and retention, Petter stated, \u201cwe are very proud of the work we have done with some of the world\u2019s leading companies and institutions in improving their supply chain management experience ; our consultants travel the world visiting both new and existing clients replacing \u00a0their existing systems and improving their procurement workflow.\u00a0 The bottom line is we want to show savings on each transaction and lessen the \u201cmanagement time cost\u201d of every purchasing dollar.\u00a0 That means providing systems that \u201csimply work\u201d and that\u2019s important to our clients as they generally always have to justify their initial deployment.\u00a0 We run 24\/7\/365 \u2013 so every hour of day, someone around the world is using our systems to save their enterprise time and money.\u201d<\/p>\n
Overall, Eyvo Procurement eBuyerAssist offers all the features a procurement executive would expect and more.\u00a0 Their commitment to strong system controls with the goal of eliminating poor procurement choices and the potential for fraud makes Eyvo Procurement a product worthy of further investigation for your business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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