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Where buyers choose.

Buyers demand an ever higher quality of service. For e-business to succeed it has to deal with its biggest competitor - the face-to-face meeting between a persuasive salesperson and a client. Cost saving, faster and easier purchasing with informative and useful follow up and order tracking all need to be included in any electronic buying tool.

The MainHighway PurchasePoint solution is our answer to providing the features you need. Integrated with our multi-vendor SupplyPoint solution it also places you as a purchaser into a market environment where vendors compete for your business and innovate to meet your needs.

Our PurchasePoint solution

PurchasePoint integrates our e-community and market solutions in the form of a buyer gateway to a multi-vendor market. Corporate or open community purchasing can be configured within a permissions hierarchy and transparent pricing structure that meets your needs.

PurchasePoint is based on browser viewers that disaggregate the buying process into a pre-defined protocol. Server based data hierarchies control access, permissions to buy and the presentation of offers. PurchasePoint is an integrated tool which provides information on purchases, tracks them and links to our TollWay transactions system to provide full treasury handling and money-management to the back end system where required.

Main features of PurchasePoint

A full technical briefing on PurchasePoint is available on request. Each implementation is configured to specific customer needs so there is no common generic solution. Elements of the toolset, however, are common:

• Open viewer presentation of vendors to allow competitive selection of best-fit suppliers
• Search facilities to find desired products and services
• Submission of purchase requests
• Authorisation of requisitions within a corporate purchasing protocol
• Creation of orders direct to vendor viewers for immediate action
• Placement of orders with automatic verified vendor order acknowledgement
• Tracking of order status. Dynamic, 2-way communication with suppliers
• Monitoring of supplier performance for comparison of service
• Supports catalogue procurement by integrating with SupplyPoint
• Customisable web browser interface supports credit card, purchase card or on account payments
• Secure payment & settlement methods
• Multiple catalogue data formats for full e-procurement implementation
• Customisable catalogues for buyer ranking
• Multimedia catalogue content
• Supports range of order and status transport protocols: e.g. fax, EDI
• Batch updates to financial packages: Sun, Sage, Pegasus. Comprehensive management reporting & analysis features
• Buyer and vendor profile management for intra-corporate extranets.

To find out more about PurchasePoint please contact us for a full technical briefing.

This page should be read in conjunction with our Supply Point information page

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PurchasePoint uses:

E-community solutions with single buyer types involved in transactions with a common vendor group.

E-market or B2B2C solutions with many buyers involved in transactions with many vendors.

Corporate solutions with many buyers involved in transactions with many vendors.

E-procurement systems with supply chain efficiency and auditing goals.

Community solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. area access or downloads that need auditing.

Corporate solutions involving non-pecuniary transactions: e.g. training, closed area access or downloads that need auditing.

PurchasePoint is a qualty solution for your e-purchasing needs. It is fully extensible for corporate multi-layer transactions and e-procurement requirements.