IT Procurement Services
Tailoring Procurement Management to best suit your business needs
An effectively managed procurement process incorporates Product selection, Price benchmarking, Price negotiation, Procurement, Vendor Price Monitoring and Consulting to deliver quantifiable and ongoing cost savings throughout the life of the product.
Our clients entrust these services to e-Volve as we are the only technology company that can deliver all of these services AND monitor Vendor pricing using our pricing monitor platform tools. This gives our clients the comfort that price movements are being monitored daily and will allow our clients to realise typical bottom line cost savings of between 10% and 30% annually.
Business Benefits:
Having our highly experienced Procurement negotiators work with your IT and Procurement teams to deliver the optimum business and financial outcomes.
Substantially lower component prices based on centralised annual procurement volumes.
Time and resource savings for both Procurement and IT, as they are freed from repetitive operational purchasing and “one off” price negotiation tasks and able to focus more of their effort on higher value strategic activities.
A faster, smoother and ultimately cheaper procurement process that does not compromise the delivery experience or the project outcome.
Having historical data as our collective reference point to ensure vendor price monitoring continues throughout the lifecycle of the product/s.
Using our consultancy service to determine what is the correct pricing points you should be negotiating and requesting.
An e-Volve IT Procurement Service Overview:
1.
Product Selection
Selecting the correct product/s is critical to ensuring your business and financial needs are met. Also, ensuring the vendor product roadmaps align to your corporate expectations and timelines are also essential.
2.
Price Benchmarking
Once we have agreed the right product/s for your environment, then we move on to assessing pricing from all vendors with the same or similar specifications and roadmaps. Once the pricing benchmark has been done, we have a clearer picture of where each product sits, and we share this information with you.
3.
Price Negotiation
once you have decided on your product preference after the price benchmarking, we leveraged off our highly skilled negotiators who understand how to position your requirements and get the best commercial pricing and outcome today throughout the lifecycle of the produyct/s. We then present the pricing benefits to you for confirmation
4.
Procurement
After confirming your product choice and you have accepted the pricing, we work with your IT and procurement teams to agree the procurement and roll-out process that would suit your organisation the best. We then align our procurement, operational and fulfillment processes to suit through to execution and sign-off.
5.
Vendor Price Monitoring
Now we come to our clear point of differentiation throughout the procurement process. Keeping vendor pricing current and ensuring price movements down are immediately represented through to you, our valued client and fighting the fight when vendor pricing is likely to go up. Our platforms track each of your product prices now and historically and are alarmed to advise us for anomalies, so you can be sure you are protected and well informed before any nasty surprises.
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Procurement Consulting
If you are looking for various benchmarking data across our over 16,000 IT categories and 250M vendor price records, we can help you understand where the correct price points should be and when to buy.