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Electrical and Electronic Components
News Release from: Farnell
Edited by the Engineeringtalk Editorial
Team on 30 April 2003
E-procurement pays dividends for Transco
Premier Farnell has provided Transco, the UK gas distribution company which serves almost 20 million customers, with a bespoke e-procurement solution.
Premier Farnell has provided Transco, the UK gas distribution company which serves almost 20 million customers, with a bespoke e-procurement solution Implemented following the national contract awarded by Transco to Premier Farnell, for the supply of electronic components and accessories, with sales potentially worth in excess of GBP 1 million, the solution has been tailored to meet Transco's exact needs
This article was originally published on Engineeringtalk on 18 Aug 2000 at 8.00am (UK)
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Specifically this includes helping Transco to retain a strict focus on managing contract compliance and spend.
Commenting, Justin Bennetts, Procurement Officer at Transco, says: "The start to finish timescale of the implementation of the electronic catalogue was excellent.
Premier Farnell worked closely and efficiently with us in order to meet challenging project delivery timescales, whilst retaining a clear focus on the importance of getting things right first time.
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Electronic cataloguing has become a very useful tool for Transco.
It enables our authorised users to easily understand which supplier they should be using for each defined product group, ensuring that needs are fully met while ensuring contractual compliance to the contracts we manage".
Externally hosted by Premier Farnell, the catalogue is accessible only by pre-authorised Transco users, which aids purchasing control.
In addition it is linked with Transco's SAP enterprise resource planning (ERP) system, allowing the capture of spend information for reporting across the organisation whilst the contract agreement itself also secures clearly defined product pricing.
In addition, the actual catalogue content is controlled by Transco to avoid conflict with other supplier contracts that are managed.
Robert Knight, Group eCommerce Manager at Premier Farnell, explains: "If one of our customers specifies that it will only purchase adhesive from one supplier, then our system must only display products from that supplier to that customer.
Our customers each have very different requirements and we must be flexible enough to meet all their needs".
Premier Farnell, together with Reqio, the leading dedicated product content management company, delivered the online customised punch-out catalogue.
Capable of seamlessly integrating with e-procurement systems, through XML based protocols (a set of formal rules describing how to transmit data), the punch-out catalogue brings a number of benefits to Transco through the flexibility it possesses to integrate with other systems and technologies.
Benefits for Premier Farnell are achieved through the exclusivity in product supply plus the fact that electronic ordering goes direct to its warehouse system, removing the need for its staff to spend time rekeying the orders.
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