Easy implementation is driving rapid procurement cost savings
As well as reducing pricing dramatically, the rise of stand-alone, best-of-breed savings tools to strengthen procurement processes and improve efficiency has brought another key benefit - easy implementation.
Whenever we’re talking to potential customers, one question we’re always asked is “How easy / quick is it to implement?”. The answer is: “It’s very easy (you don’t need any involvement from IT on your end), and it’s very quick (you can be up and running in a fully configured environment in as little as one day)”. This is still a surprising answer to some, but it’s becoming increasingly normal for this kind of technology. Gone are the days of lengthy, complex and costly projects just to get the thing off the ground.
Our (mean) average customer records £26m of savings per year on Provalido - that is £500,000/week! ... you will (probably) take longer to make a decision than Provalido takes to implement?
To give a real-life example, recently we were contacted on a Monday evening by an organisation who were looking for a more robust and efficient way of managing and reporting their savings than their current spreadsheet-based process. On the Tuesday we provided a demo of our system via a web meeting. On the Wednesday we discussed the data we needed to build and configure a tailored environment for them (their category taxonomy, organisation structure, savings types, approval rules etc). On the Friday we received their data, built and configured their environment, and provided access to their super-users to check everything out.
Provalido users up and running after a single session
During the week after we conducted web-based training sessions for all their procurement team and they were up and running using Provalido having taken a huge step forward from their spreadsheet process in just a handful of days.
So just because something falls into the ‘technology’ bracket, doesn’t mean it needs to be complicated to buy and implement. If you’d like to understand how our Tracker can help your procurement team manage its cost reduction activity in a more efficient way – just get in touch and arrange a demo. If you like what you see, you could be using it this time next week!
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