Three Local Authorities in North Wales Select PROACTIS eProcurement

News Facts

  • PROACTIS, the Spend Control and eProcurement specialist, today announced that three local authorities in North Wales have entered into an agreement with PROACTIS for the delivery of an eProcurement platform.
  • Wrexham, Flintshire and Denbighshire County Councils aim to derive quick and significant efficiencies through the sharing of project management resource and the selection of the PROACTIS eProcurement solution to manage their spend.
  • The PROACTIS eProcurement solution delivers paperless ordering, receipting and invoicing, enables councils to pay all approved and undisputed invoices within 30 days of receipt and ensures efficiency in the purchase-to-pay cycle to free resources for frontline services.
  • The three Welsh local authorities will focus on improving financial management processes, particularly the entire lifecycle efficiency of a transaction; from the way an item is ordered to the way that the final invoice is processed and obtain full insight into cash flow and financial commitments.
  • PROACTIS will be integrated to their respective finance systems and offers proven, fully vendor-supported and maintained integration.

Supporting Information

  • PROACTIS helps over 120 public sector organizations managing £15 billion of public sector spend and over 100,000 suppliers to streamline their source-to-settle process and achieve best value and control in procurement.
  • PROACTIS shared services are used by dozens of local authorities on a regional basis in Wales, Yorkshire & Humberside and Nottinghamshire to benefit from collaborative eProcurement.

Supporting Quote

  • "Many local government organizations are still working with highly manual and paper intensive processes," said Simon Dadswell, Director of Marketing at PROACTIS. "PROACTIS will enable the group of councils to work together to quickly set up efficient eProcurement operations. This solution will enable them to automate and tailor their own processes while benefiting from group efficiencies and process improvements."