Proactis helps organizations to efficiently address content management. You can quickly and efficiently put in place:
- Efficient, well-controlled management of electronic information about specific supplier items and services, including pricing, descriptions and rich multi-media content.
- A powerful multi-supplier search, display, select and purchase request auto-build capability within your Purchase-to-Pay (P2P) system.
- Supplier website ‘punch-out’ capabilities to integrate supplier websites into your P2P system.
Proactis Content Management provides a highly structured, efficient, and cost-effective process to:
- Establish your overall strategy for providing supplier content within your P2P system
- Supplier catalogs.
- Supplier contract items and services.
- Supplier website punch-outs.
- Outline supplier interaction and enablement processes
- Supplier catalog and contract item update procedures.
- Internal controls.
- Deploy supporting content management technology
- Catalogs, contracts and punch-outs.
- Supplier portal for self-service updates.
- Deploy employee access capabilities within P2P
- Employee search and select.
- Auto-build of purchase requests and orders.
Comprehensive content management and access tools
Proactis will put in place the functional capabilities you need to perform all of the start-up activities and implement efficient, well-controlled ongoing supplier content management processes. Integrated supplier catalog and contract items management, website punch-out, and P2P search and select software have several advantages:
- Comprehensive, best-in-class capabilities.
- Cloud and/or on-premise deployment.
- Easily grow into additional areas if desired (e.g. sourcing, supplier management, contract management, electronic trading).
Expert start-up assistance
We will work with you and your team to perform all of the activities needed to establish and implement a comprehensive supplier content management and access strategy:
- Help identify the best methods and tools for various categories and suppliers.
- Set up supporting technology tools, including dozens of existing website punch-out connections; enhance or add to those connections if necessary.
- Configure new content review and publishing workflows to support update controls.
- Guide development of supplier outreach and communications processes, as well as the launch of content search and select capabilities within your organisation.
With guidance from Proactis, your team can:
- Identify and prioritise target spend categories and suppliers; decide method(s) to be deployed per supplier.
- Perform supplier outreach and jointly develop content update procedures.
- Perform employee communication and training for content access, search and select capabilities within your P2P system.
Optional ongoing services
- Proactis can also work as an extension of your team to:
- Develop additional supplier website punch-out connections.
- Manage the supplier catalog update process.
- Provide P2P helpdesk services for your employees.
This combination of structure, technology, and professional resources delivers everything you need to get started now, realize rapid results and, most importantly, establish a lasting foundation for effective, efficient supplier content management.
Increase on-contract spend and ensure use of approved suppliers with​ Proactis Content Management.