e-Procurement

Overview

eProcurement allows buyers and suppliers access to a common platform for tendering and transacting online. APUC is rolling out the Scottish Government’s award-winning eProcurement Scotl@nd (ePS) service to institutions.

By summer 2008, APUC's ePS team facilitated access for small institutions to create orders from online catalogues using PECOS. Although this was initially a limited capacity; a number of instutions have been developed and extended to full implementations and this continues in 2010 in both large and small institutions.

Benefits to institutions

Using a common platform creates efficiencies in process and time, and also helps to keep costs down. Further benefits to institutions of the ePS service include:

• ePS has a well-tested track record, having processed a massive £2.2 billion in transactions for this calendar year up to September.
• PECOS is user-friendly, flexible and fast and can be integrated directly with your finance system.
• Purchasing patterns can be tracked and analysed to inform future decisions to further increase efficiencies.

Benefits to suppliers

• ePS is well-established and the technology has proven to be robust.
• Designed to support transactions with any supplier, from small and medium sized enterprises (SMEs) to multinational organisations.
• A more efficient, single interface with access to all institutions (and the wider public sector) by registering once.

Find out more

Go to eProcurement Scotl@nd for detailed information on the service, including purchase to pay (P2P), supplier e-enablement, e-auctions, e-tenders, benefits tracking and latest case studies.

If you have specific queries on ePS implementation within institutions, please contact Stephen Richardson, Head of eProcurement.