Manual procurement management is difficult and highly susceptible to mistakes.NetSuite Procurement Cloud automates the entire procurement lifecycle, ensuring efficiency, accuracy, and cost-effectiveness at every step:
- Purchase Requisitions: Automate the creation and approval of purchase requisitions, ensuring that procurement requests are processed quickly and accurately. With NetSuite Procurement Cloud, your employees can easily submit purchase requisitions, which are automatically routed for approval based on predefined workflows.
- Purchase Orders: Generate purchase orders automatically once requisitions are approved, reducing the time and effort required to place orders with suppliers. NetSuite Procurement Cloud enables you to create purchase orders directly from approved requisitions, ensuring that orders are accurate and aligned with your procurement policies.
- Three-Way Matching: Streamline the three-way matching process by automatically matching purchase orders, receipts, and vendor invoices. This feature helps you prevent discrepancies and ensure that you only pay for goods and services that have been received and approved.
For procurement to be successful, solid supplier relationships must be established and maintained.NetSuite Procurement Cloud provides you with the tools to manage your suppliers effectively, ensuring that you get the best value from your supplier partnerships:
- Supplier Onboarding: Simplify the supplier onboarding process by automating the collection of necessary documentation and approvals. NetSuite Procurement Cloud ensures that all new suppliers are vetted and approved according to your company’s standards, reducing the risk of engaging with unreliable or non-compliant suppliers.
- Supplier Performance Monitoring: Track and evaluate supplier performance using real-time data and analytics. With NetSuite Procurement Cloud, you can monitor key performance indicators (KPIs) such as delivery times, quality of goods and services, and pricing, enabling you to make informed decisions about your supplier relationships.
- Supplier Collaboration: Improve collaboration with your suppliers by providing them with access to a dedicated supplier portal. NetSuite Procurement Cloud’s supplier portal allows suppliers to view purchase orders, enhancing communication and reducing delays in the procurement process.
Effective procurement is all about controlling costs and managing spend. NetSuite Procurement Cloud gives you the visibility and control you need to manage your procurement budget effectively:
- Spend Visibility: Gain real-time visibility into your organization’s spend across all departments and categories. NetSuite Procurement Cloud provides out off box reports and dashboards, allowing you to track spending trends, identify cost-saving opportunities, and ensure that procurement aligns with your budget.
- Budget Compliance: Ensure that all procurement activities are in line with your company’s budgetary constraints. NetSuite Procurement Cloud integrates with your financial management system, enabling you to set budget limits and monitor procurement activities against those limits in real time.
- Contract Compliance: Manage and enforce compliance with supplier contracts, ensuring that you get the best terms and prices. NetSuite Procurement Cloud helps you track contract terms, monitor contract compliance, apply negotiated discounts, reducing the risk of overpaying for goods and services.
NetSuite Procurement Cloud is designed to integrate seamlessly with other business processes, providing you with a unified platform for managing your entire organization:
- Inventory Management Integration: Integrate your procurement process with inventory management to ensure that you always have the right amount of stock on hand. NetSuite Procurement Cloud automatically updates inventory levels based on purchase orders and receipts, helping you avoid stockouts and overstock situations.
- Financial Management Integration: Link your procurement activities with your financial management system to ensure accurate and timely financial reporting. NetSuite Procurement Cloud automatically updates your financial records based on procurement activities, providing you with real-time visibility into your company’s financial health.
- Supply Chain Management Integration: Coordinate your procurement activities with your supply chain management process to ensure that goods and services are delivered on time and in the right quantities. NetSuite Procurement Cloud integrates with your supply chain management system, enabling you to manage your entire supply chain from a single platform.
Your company’s purchase requirements will change as it expands.
NetSuite Procurement Cloud is designed to scale with your business, providing you with the flexibility and agility you need to manage procurement in a dynamic environment:
- Customizable Workflows: Customize procurement workflows to match your company’s unique processes and requirements. NetSuite Procurement Cloud allows you to define and automate workflows based on your specific needs, ensuring that your procurement process remains efficient and effective as your business grows.
- Multi-Subsidiary Management: Manage procurement activities across multiple subsidiaries, business units, and regions within a single instance of NetSuite Procurement Cloud. This feature is especially valuable for businesses with complex organizational structures, as it enables you to manage procurement activities consistently across your entire organization.