Housing Associations Procurement

Many housing associations are looking to transform their procurement practices to achieve greater savings and deliver better value services, while support their wider objectives such as regeneration, environmental sustainability and the promotion of diversity and quality. They must look beyond unit costs and adopt a more strategic approach to improve financial control and compliance.

PROACTIS offers a comprehensive suite of spend control and eProcurement solutions that help geographically widespread housing associations with diverse business units to ensure their Procurement teams deliver quality of service and staff comply with best value buying opportunities. PROACTIS solutions are proven to reduce cost, improve management visibility and increase organisation-wide productivity.

Housing association customers include: Peabody Trust, Trident Housing Association, Origin Group, Moat Housing Group, London & Quadrant Housing Trust, and Gloucestershire Housing Association.

Challenges for Housing Associations

Some of the challenges our solutions help to address include:

Visibility of spend
Procurement transformation
Negotiating best value agreements
Purchasing policy adherence
Supplier adoption, evaluation and communication
Automating supplier transactions and catalogue management
Contract regulations and compliance
Procurement for complex services
Better control of payments

PROACTIS Spend Control & eProcurement

PROACTIS spend control and eProcurement solutions help Finance and Procurement professionals leverage finite resources to meet the policy and commercial requirements of best value, ultimately redirecting time and money back to the core task of providing frontline, citizen-focused services: