Spend Management Videos

Darren Herries, Head of The Hub at the City of Wolverhampton Council talks about Proactis has helped the Council with its transformation to “No PO, No Pay” - to improve visibility and reduce risk. 

The Council has moved from paper-based, manual processes to a fully-automated end-to-end process, with seamless integration with Unit4 Business World. 

Trudy Heasman, Head of Transaction Processing, explains how Bauer Media automated their purchase ordering and invoice processing across all UK locations. 

Using Proactis has provided full visibility of the cost pipeline and automated invoice processing resulting in improved supplier relations and a 75% cost reduction in Account Payable. 

Hear from Phil Sweeting, Head of Procurement at University of Essex about how the University uses Proactis Sourcing, eAuction and Contract Management functionality to plan future resources and proactively manage contracts. 

Proactis has already saved the University £25k on one £75k tender, and provides transparency and a full audit trail. 

Hear from Ian McKee, Assistant Director of Finance at University of Sussex talk about how Proactis Source-to-Contract, Marketplace and Invoice Capture, integrate seamlessly with the University’s Finance system.

This has helped the University achieve efficiency gains and improve supplier relationship management.

Hear from Dean Corbisiero, Systems and Process Development Officer at the City of Cardiff Council about how the Council achieved better visibility of tenders and efficiency and cashable savings through a DPS project.

This included Sourcing, Contract Management, Supplier Management and electronic auctions.

Hear from Tom Cadwallader, Head of Procurement at Pobl about how the housing association group implemented Proactis Purchase-to-Pay in less than four months to streamline its purchase order and payment process. 

Within 11 months of implementation, the organisation had introduced a ‘No PO No Pay’ policy and was making efficiency and cost savings on over £12m of spend with 18,000 orders being processed ‘straight-through’ to the finance system.

Hear from the Service Development Director, Property & Asset Management at JLL on how implementing the Proactis spend management platform, end-to-end from sourcing through to payment, has enabled them to achieve efficiencies in their working practices and provide a better service to their customers and suppliers. 

Hear from the Finance Director of logistics company, P&O Ferrymasters Ltd on how they've achieved a 20% efficiency increase in the processing of 650,000 invoices per year through the use of Proactis. 

In a notoriously low margin business, hear from the Finance Director of Yusen Logistics UK on how they are using Proactis spend management and eProcurement to streamline its Procure-to-Pay processes.. 

Here, Ilija Ugrinic, Commercial Solutions Director at Proactis, provides an overview of how Proactis helps organisations address their Source-to-Pay challenges - including:

• Strategic procurement (limited capacity, trying to manage as much spend in the organisation as possible and looking at categorisation and value of spend).
• Finance (achieving PO compliance). 
• Wider buyers (distributed procurement and buying from approved/preferred suppliers).

Angela Vinall, Head of Managed Services at Proactis, explains why Customers use Proactis Managed Services - including helping organisations that don't have space/capacity to grow their AP team.

Proactis processes well over 1 million invoices per year on behalf of organisations