1 Data sheet Bristlecone ProcureToPayNOW How Do You Address Your Key Performance Questions? Why Bristlecone ProcureToPayNOW EMBRACE MARKET VOLATILITY AND ENHANCE YOUR MARKET POTENTIAL Gartner Report 2010 Magic Quadrant for Strategic Sourcing Application Suites • How do I automate and streamline procurement process thereby reducing transaction processing costs? • What are the options for reducing maverick buying? • How do I ensure compliance with negotiated contracts? • What can be done to manage catalog data and improve search for materials and services? • How do I reduce risk of supply shortages and delays due to last minute schedule changes? • What is the option for electronically connecting suppliers and exchanging the transaction data? • What is the path for transitioning to touch less e-invoicing process? • How do I promptly share payment & invoice information with suppliers? • How do I increase my service levels and decrease my costs for common commodities? • How do I deploy a platform and processes that best suit my organization’s maturity and business practices? • Accelerate purchasing velocity through automation of procurement processes • Improve informed purchases and reduce purchasing errors through catalog based requisitioning • Reduce maverick buying through improved invoice matching • Lock savings through collaborative contract management • Move to a single source of truth through improved master data management and consolidation • Synchronize global data onto a single system • Extend reach through seamless collaboration with suppliers • Enable supplier accessibility/updation of supply-side transactions with supplier self-service • Improve cash flow with automated invoicing and payment ProcureToPayNOW is a fully integrated and automated platform to help suppliers, partners and manufacturers collaborate and accelerate the entire procurement processes starting from procurement to invoice management. Our following solutions leverage SAP SRM and e-Procurement for our implementations: ProcureNOW – accelerates your purchasing velocity by automating the goods & services procurement processes. CatalogNOW – maintains and automates a central catalog repository to meet your specific catalog needs on time at reduced cost. “ If you are contemplating answers to these questions, Bristlecone can help. Bristlecone’s ProcureToPayNOW service offering spans the complete procurement space and helps you: SAP offers the most extensive, robustportfolio of strategic procurement solutions of any ERP vendor…these solutions are available for installation on-premise, hosted by SAP or one of its partners, including Bristlecone .. • Global delivery model implemented by professionals with deep industry, process and SAP technical expertise • Rated by AMR & Gartner among the top SAP supply chain planning and solutions providers • Development partner for SAP applications • Delivered the first implementation of SRM 2.0, 5.0 in APAC and SRM 2.1 globally • Implemented first integration of supplier collaboration with non SAP ERP system globally • One of the first to implement SRM MDM Catalogue in NA • Implemented first upgrade of SUS 1.0 to SUS 2.0 to SUS 3.0 Bristlecone procurement capabilities Bristlecone procurement capabilities DISRUPT DIGITIZE SYNERGIZE
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1Data sheet
Bristlecone ProcureToPayNOW
How Do You Address Your Key Performance Questions?
Why Bristlecone ProcureToPayNOW
EMBRACE MARKET VOLATILITY AND ENHANCE YOUR MARKET POTENTIAL
• How do I automate and streamline procurement process thereby reducing transaction processing costs?• What are the options for reducing maverick buying?• How do I ensure compliance with negotiated contracts?• What can be done to manage catalog data and improve search for materials and services?• How do I reduce risk of supply shortages and delays due to last minute schedule changes?• What is the option for electronically connecting suppliers and exchanging the transaction data?• What is the path for transitioning to touch less e-invoicing process?• How do I promptly share payment & invoice information with suppliers?• How do I increase my service levels and decrease my costs for common commodities?• How do I deploy a platform and processes that best suit my organization’s maturity and business practices?
• Accelerate purchasing velocity through automation of procurement processes• Improve informed purchases and reduce purchasing errors through catalog based requisitioning• Reduce maverick buying through improved invoice matching• Lock savings through collaborative contract management• Move to a single source of truth through improved master data management and consolidation• Synchronize global data onto a single system• Extend reach through seamless collaboration with suppliers• Enable supplier accessibility/updation of supply-side transactions with supplier self-service• Improve cash flow with automated invoicing and payment
ProcureToPayNOW is a fully integrated and automated platform to help suppliers,partners and manufacturers collaborate and accelerate the entire procurement processes starting from procurement to invoice management. Our following solutions leverage SAPSRM and e-Procurement for our implementations:
ProcureNOW – accelerates your purchasing velocity by automating the goods &services procurement processes.
CatalogNOW – maintains and automates a central catalog repository to meet yourspecific catalog needs on time at reduced cost.
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If you are contemplating answers to these questions, Bristlecone can help.Bristlecone’s ProcureToPayNOW service offering spans the complete procurementspace and helps you:
SAP offers the most extensive, robustportfolio of strategicprocurement solutions of any ERP vendor…these solutions are available for installationon-premise, hosted by SAP or one of its partners, includingBristlecone ..
• Global delivery model implemented by professionals with deep industry, process and SAP technical expertise• Rated by AMR & Gartner among the top SAP supply chain planning and solutions providers• Development partner for SAP applications
• Delivered the first implementation of SRM 2.0, 5.0 in APAC and SRM 2.1 globally• Implemented first integration of supplier collaboration with non SAP ERP system globally• One of the first to implement SRM MDM Catalogue in NA• Implemented first upgrade of SUS 1.0 to SUS 2.0 to SUS 3.0
Bristlecone procurementcapabilities
Bristlecone procurementcapabilities
DISRUPT DIGITIZE SYNERGIZE
ProcureToPayNOWValue Added Services
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Enhanced Analytics
Electronic Invoice Processing
Accelerated Supplier Adoption
We had previous experience withBristlecone and had full confidence that the company would work closely with us. Weknew they were highly knowledgeable about SAP and specifically the entire SAP procurement platform.
Automated catalog content approval helps standardize catalog content management and automates input of data into catalog.
Enhanced analytics for the entire procure to pay processes provides BW-based business content basket consisting of KPIs, creative dashboards and intelligent reports. We provide out-of-box extractor kit for deployment of analytics and comprehensive reporting (for buyer and supplier side). This helps extend the organization’s analytical capabilities and incorpo-rates best practice reports to measure both buyer and supplier side metrics.
Electronic invoice processing helps in deployment of invoice scanning solution along with OCR technology. It enables electronic posting of invoices, 2/3 way matching of invoices, workflow based error handling, business content basket consisting of standard KPIs, analytics dash boards and reports.
Accelerated supplier adoption provides coaching services including training andhandholding for suppliers enabling faster deployment, road map for on-boarding suppliers, strategy for technical integration of supplier systems (that helps establish governance and technology approach for supplier collaboration) and accelerates the value of collaboration initiatives. It helps extend assistance to key suppliers without burdening the internal procurement team.
ProcureToPayNOW service offerings include scope assessment, proof of concept,implementation, hosting, hosting support, post go-live managed services and technical upgrade services. Our flexible deployment models include: on-premise, hosted and SaaS.
Partner with Bristlecone to optimize your supply chain investment and implement quick time-to-value solutions.To set up a discussion with our team, please send your inquiry to [email protected]
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CollaborateNOW – helps youreach seamless supplier integration through accelerated supplier on-boarding and automation of communication with the supplier base.
InvoiceNOW – helps automateinvoice and payment processesand streamlines the entireinvoice management processes.
Catalog Content ManagementCatalog content management provides cost effective, turnkey management of catalog data and out-of-box interfaces for the extraction of catalog data.
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Bristlecone is a leader inadvising clients on how tomaximize the strategic value oftheir supply chains andassisting them in unleashingthat value rapidly througheffective use of enablingtechnologies. With our singularfocus on addressingprocurement and supply chainchallenges, we help our clientsto diagnose, design, enableand enhance their operationsby encapsulating our years ofexperience into pre-configuredsolutions, accelerateddeployments and enhancementpacks for the leading supplychain technologies.
