By now electronic procurement has become a central part of strategic procurement management. By targeted placement of electronic requests on internet platforms purchasing departments obtain best prices and optimal supply situations in the shortest possible times.

There are multiple advantages to electronic purchasing in the form of electronically supported tenders and online auctions:

Qualitative potentials

• Large increase of the number of possible bidders
• Free potentials in purchasing become available for strategic procurement tasks
• Optimization of client-supplier relationships

Quantitative potentials

• Time saving
  • Automation of purchasing activities
  • Rapid and flexible procurement of indirect purchase goods
  • Minimization of processing and cycle time of purchase requests
    
    
• Cost advantages
  • Minimization of process costs
  • Low purchase price
  • Reduction of staff costs for negotiations
  • Electronic processing of time-consuming administrative tasks

The THESEN sourcing tool

THESEN AG offers its clients a user-friendly reliable Internet procurement platform which covers their needs. This tool has proven its efficiency in a large number of procurement projects. The conditions which we have created and realized have set standards in procurement. The prerequisites for this success are clearly defined requirements for the procurement system and the selection of the appropriate system.
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We would not be a consulting company if we did not give the same attention to the analysis methods as to the system interface. Hence, our tool provides you with metadata, fundamental indicators of potential and immediate utility.

Preliminary measures and results:

• Critical analysis of the procurement situation
• Critical assessment of the supplier structure
• Formulation of the procurement strategies
• Grouping of requirements
• Wider reach in price negotiations
• Increase in procurement transparency (price, product, suppliers)
• More intense competition

Make use of out virtual procurement assistant which is available to you around the clock and around the world.