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BizOS®: Procurement Software

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When your sales processes are under control you start to pay better attention to your purchasing processes. Purchasing is the other side of the coin, if it is in disarray your business will definitely suffer. As your business grows and you start to build an extensive supplier network you will need to rely on a system that can handle the complexities that arise from such a complex picture.

BizOS^® brings your procurement processes under full control. And it goes further by seamlessly integrating purchasing with in-house processes then with the myriad of sales complexities expected in the practical world of business. BizOS^® provides you with the tools that allow you to have a piercing view through your full trade processes to identify cost saving opportunities or to find sink holes in the system that could otherwise lurk invisible.
Consider if you will that you have a dozen different suppliers that supply a certain item that your business carries for sale. Then an order comes for ten thousand units of that item. You need, in an instance, to identify which supplier or suppliers will offer the best fit for the specifics of this order, while maintaining an eye on both the top line as well as the bottom line. Who can supply the whole order? Who has the best purchase price? Who has the best overall cost? Who can meet the deadline? Who can package as required? Who can deliver to the right location? You certainly need BizOS^® on your side at a time like this.

Supplier Qualification & Management BizOS® makes managing your suppliers very easy. It offers you a total view of each supplier, in which it allows you to keep track of tremendous amount of information about every aspect of your relationship with this supplier. You can keep as many contacts as you wish, as well as any number of attached documents to keep track of all the important papers that are transmitted between your business and that supplier. In another view you can, with a simple click, review your financial history with that supplier. Yet another view allows you access to quality history and all the quality problems you experienced with this supplier. Check it out, this short description can hardly do justice to the deep extent BizOS® treats the supplier management details. But before you manage your suppliers you need to run each of them through your corporate qualification process, and then keep records as to how they achieved that qualification to enter your system as an approved supplier. BizOS® provides the purchasing manager with the necessary tools to document the process of qualification then keep track of and time-maintain such credentials. Order Processing As the mirror image of the sales order processing, the BizOS®supplier order processing continues with the same level of attention to details as the sales order processing. You can initiate a supplier order from any logical step on the workflow. However the workflow allows for the whole detailed process to be observed depending on your corporate policies and practices. The workflow includes all the steps from RFQs, Quotes and Orders to Shipments, Invoices and Payments. Every step is broken down or folded into a super-step based on your business policies and practices; thus allowing for step initiation, validation, and then confirmation; if your business requires it. Further, BizOS® supplier order processing is fully linked to the sales order processing to allow the manager a full view throughout the whole process. Quality and Issue Management BizOS® puts you in the seat of control when it comes to quality and issue management. Your business can-not afford to do business with suppliers that exceed a certain amount of failed quality in either the product or the other aspects of doing business with them. So if a supplier continually ships to the wrong address, or issues invoices that are predated or any other small or large issue you need manage, BizOS® allows you to keep track of any or all the information you might want to keep record on. Supplier Interaction History BizOS® offers you views that show you, in a convenient way, how much have you spent buying from this supplier this quarter versus last quarter, or in the last two years. If you also need to figure out the ratio of rejected goods value to total goods ordered, that too is a snap with BizOS®.