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News Release from: SSA Global | Subject: iBaan Sourcing and iBaan E-Procurement
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk Editorial
Team on 25 October 2002
Build and maintain better supplier
relationships
Two software developments focus on the supplier relationship management market with the release of sourcing and enhanced E-Procurement solutions.
Baan, the leading enterprise application provider for industrial enterprises and part of Invensys, has announced an enhanced focus on the supplier relationship management (SRM) market with the release of iBaan Sourcing and enhancements to its iBaan E-Procurement solutions With the Baan solutions for SRM, businesses can: * Analyse their spend and supply base as well as their product lifecycle and production needs
This article was originally published on Manufacturingtalk on 20 Aug 2001 at 8.00am (UK)
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Baan's focus on SRM - as a part of the company's Supply Chain Management (SCM) strategy - is a logical move that leverages Baan's supply chain portfolio as well as the company's strengths in Product Lifecycle Management (PLM), Customer Relationship Management (CRM), and knowledge management markets.
"Baan's SRM offerings drive enhancements in purchasing productivity, overall cost performance, and forge stronger supply chain relationships," said Ed Daihl, president of Baan's SCM and CRM business units.
"Procurement processes and supplier negotiations are some of the best places to turn for reducing costs and improving profits in a troubled economy." iBaan Sourcing is a web-enabled solution that gives customers an efficient process for determining what to buy, in what quantities, from whom and under what terms and conditions to meet organizational requirements of speed, quality and total cost.
Commodity managers can collaboratively create and distribute requests for quote (RFQ); requests for information (RFI) and requests for disposal (RFD); collect, optimise and analyse bids; award business; and create and monitor contracts.
iBaan Sourcing offers workflow for drafting and approving requests and contracts, and supports multi-site supply aggregation.
Baan's long history in enterprise solutions provides a solid foundation for a sourcing tool that works with SCM and ERP (enterprise resource planning) systems for supply chain and production planning and execution.
The application has optimal, business-oriented integration for linking a Baan back-end system and offers open integration for linking to legacy back-end systems.
Baan's strengths in PLM and CRM are also leveraged to deliver complete functionality from engineering and design to customer fulfillment.
iBaan E-Procurement is a web-based solution that addresses the requisition-to-payment process for indirect materials.
With iBaan E-Procurement, customers will find that their purchasing department has more time to focus on supplier selection and performance improvement initiatives while they experience lower overall costs by consolidating volume and containing maverick buying.
The newly released 2.2 version adds capabilities for warehouse requisitions, allocation of a requisition to multiple budgets, more robust approval processing, enhanced receiving and invoicing options, and integration to iBaan Sourcing to initiate sourcing activities for off-catalogue items.
Baan solutions that are complementary to iBaan Sourcing and iBaan E-Procurement include: the iBaan Business Intelligence Suite for analytics and reporting, iBaan PDM (product data management) for engineering collaboration and design specifications, iBaan Enterprise for order management, iBaan Supply Chain Designer for strategic decision making and supply chain design, and iBaan B2B Server and iBaan Procurement Toolkit for implementing supplier procurement portals.
iBaan Sourcing and iBaan E-Procurement are part of the iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions that combines proven Baan technology with new developments to enable customers to take significant steps towards seamlessly integrating systems and processes.
It provides end-users with personalised and easy-to-use information, and empowers businesses to collaborate with their customers and suppliers over the Internet.
Baan helps industrial enterprises optimize their enterprise performance strategies and compete in the knowledge-driven 'networked economy', with its ever-increasing demands for information, integration, and collaboration.
Through its open and powerful iBaan suite of Internet-enabled solutions, Baan is ideally placed to support organisations in the manufacturing, logistics, services, and engineering industries as they move towards tighter integration of their complex processes, closer collaboration throughout their value chain, and greater accessibility of cross-enterprise transactional and analytical information.
Baan has more than 15,000 customer sites worldwide and is part of the Production Management division of Invensys.
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