Procurement managers strive to achieve ‘Best Value” for their organisations when choosing suppliers. Paradoxically, procurement software is not always selected with the same philosophy. In fact, many organizations drastically overpay for purchasing software and services, zealously chasing trendy technology and consulting guru mantras. Others are held hostage by their Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) suppliers, paying an “Enterprise” price for mediocre, difficult to implement software while absorbing exorbitant costs over the application’s lifecycle. And still others significantly underfund procurement automation, electing to patch together a collection of manual processes, paper, spreadsheets and token software modules. These under-funders never make a significant, holistic investment, yet real costs remain and true spend control sits well beyond their grasp.

It is our belief that procurement software solutions should be a beacon of Best Value, setting an example inside an organization. Proactis Group offers practical, fundamentally sound software solutions that achieve the optimum balance between sophistication, ease of use and return on investment. With Best Value in mind, we apply the following principals to our software, our implementation methodologies and support approach.

• Practical; our software helps you control the areas of spend that matters the most, such as services, utilities and complex supply agreements, as well as the pens, pencils and computers that stretch the capabilities ofmost eProcurement solutions;
• Fairly priced; with project costs based on customer value and ROI, PROACTIS software is priced to be affordable and easily justifiable for the majority of mid-to-large size organizations;
• Easy to adopt; supremely simple for all staff to embrace, PROACTIS software designed using the principle that staff should not need training in the use of a system, or an understanding of the rules, in order to comply with your procurement policy;
• Easy to integrate; capable of integrating effortlessly with your accounting systems, ERP software, or 3rd party trading hubs and electronic catalogues out-of-the-box, PROACTIS software can be implanted at the heart of your operations without exorbitant integration costs;
• Full-scope or Pick and Mix; the modular design of PROACTIS software means that our customers can implement full-scope end-to-end eProcurement, incorporating P2P, eInvoicing, SRM, Contract Management and eSourcing, or alternatively select point solutions to link to their existing eProcurement tools;
• Deployed the way you want; flexible deployment options means that PROACTIS can be delivered as on-premise systems, hosted by us or by 3rd parties, or delivered as a service with no software installation requirements whatsoever;
• Proven and road-tested; in a market sector littered with failed eProcurement software projects, 300+ happy and referenceable clients across the private, public and not-for-profit sectors, means that PROACTIS stands out as the risk-free solution.
• Robust and reliable; our commercial-off-the-shelf approach to software development has resulted in an extremely reliable solution with a reputation for working first time, every time. Amongst our many successful clients are a significant number who have transferred to PROACTIS after failing to implement less robust competitive solutions.
• Safety in numbers; our partner-focused go-to-market strategy, which sees PROACTIS delivered by many of the world’s leading systems integrators and software resellers, offers our customers a safety net which is unrivalled even by other larger software companies.
• A finance system for procurement people, and a procurement system for the accountants; with so many eProcurement solutions developing from catalogue, e-commerce or sell-side solutions, PROACTIS is unique as a procurement solution developed as a natural extension to an organisation’s finance function, making PROACTIS compelling for finance and procurement.

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