Another Charity Controls Spend with PROACTIS
RSPCA to implement a 1000 user PROACTIS Spend Control solution.
PROACTIS partner, Sapphire, today announced that it is to supply and implement a 1000 user PROACTIS Spend Control System at the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA). The system will include Purchase-to-Pay, Employee Expenses, Spend Visibility, link to Document Scanning and Punch Out to the web.
After identifying the need for a Spend Control system, Head of Procurement at the RSPCA, Vickie Malyon, attended a Not-for-Profit sector Procurement Special Interest Group at Sapphire. Following a formal evaluation process, the RSPCA shortlisted PROACTIS and three other vendors.
Vickie explained "Our brief was to find a web-based procurement system for use by The Society to place orders on suppliers with flexible workflow to deal with our authorisation processes and integrate with our SAGE 500 accounts system. The system will be deployed across a wide range of users so ease of use is essential, it also needs to scale for the future both in size and functionality. The fact that PROACTIS is used in many Not-for-Profit organisations gave us great comfort."
Once rolled-out, the RSPCA expects the system to yield a number of benefits including risk management; by introducing RSPCA efficient and effective ordering and invoice processing procedures, greater visibility and control of The Society's procurement activity and ultimately, savings. The balance of power will be shifted away from suppliers back into the hands of The Society. Automation of paper-based systems will also eliminate time wasted by staff whose primary focus is the welfare of animals.
The RSPCA has opted to take PROACTIS as a hosted solution. This hosting service will give the RSPCA assurance that they're using the most advanced IT infrastructure and are protected against risk, thus ensuring that employees always have access to the PROACTIS system and IT management time is reduced.
Vickie concludes "We look forward to PROACTIS being able to provide a simple clearly defined procurement process for all parts of The Society and a one-stop-shop for all our purchasing needs."
