Overview
Approve is a service that can merge information about your suppliers from different sources (e.g audit reports, performance feedback, scoring and additional information) and make this available to your buyers in a single dashboard. This information can be automatically marked and weighted to provide an overall score for the supplier that represents a complete view of their suitability as a supplier according to your internal business requirements. The supplier score can be used to decide if you wish a company to be an "Approved" supplier for your buying team. The SMS search experience is enhanced with the Approve criteria to provide an effective method of developing a short list for your contract opportunities.
Background
The standard Achilles solution provides huge economies of scale benefits to the industry group, however there are some activities each Buyer wishes to keep private in order to manage their competitive advantage but wish to link with the Achilles solution or just because their internal rules are different.
Key features
- Data recorded against suppliers by a buying organisation remains private to that organisation
- Choose the information to be used for the Approve assessment
- A lead buyer can control the range of suppliers available to their buying teams
- Access levels to the Approve record can be controlled
- Upload Documents
- Enter Status Information
- Approve or Disqualify a supplier with an optional validity period
- Enter free text information
- In advanced versions
Search using bespoke categories
Add product codes for approval
History of changes.
Key benefits
- Improved short listing for buying organisations as they can search within Approved Suppliers for their own organisation
- Combine automatic and manual methods of assessment – saving time and ensuring your procurement business processes are embedded within a single tool
- Enable buying organisations to store supplementary information that can be included as search criteria.
Find out how your company could benefit from Achilles' Approve service, by contacting us today