Cimmra eProcurement Suite works to Streamline, Automate and Economize your Procurement, to Increase Margins and Help your Business Grow Rapidly.
Smooth, Timely and Economic Procurement Cycles Keep the Cogwheels Of Industry Going and The Supply Chain Moving
Purchase Requisition
Quick and Composite PR Creation with Instant Lookup for any combination of Items with Vendor Catalogues. Auto-assignment to Item Category Sourcing Groups with Flexible Workflows. Simple flip to RFX/Auctions for new PRs. PRs can also flow in from your ERP!
Request for Quote/Responses
Easy RFX Creation: Flip any PR to an RFX/Auction Event. Select Suppliers from a Smart Source List or simply clone an existing RFX/Auction event to create and publish a new sourcing event even more quickly!
Supplier Responses
Simple-to-use interface to Monitor Responses progressively received from Suppliers against various RFX Questionnaires/Components, Technical and Other Pre-qualifiers. All this, from a conveniently accessible Central Event Dashboard.
Analyse Award Scenarios
Analyze Responses Quantitatively and Qualitatively at the click of a button. Check out Supplier Performances so far, with Instant Intelligence. Create Award Scenarios based on Shares of Business allocated by Percentage, Amount or Quantities of Items involved.
Award
Simply select Terms from a Terms Bank and Award Sourcing Events without conventional efforts at the click of a Button, based on most suitable Award Scenario.
Ordering
Supply Orders can either be created in ERP and pulled into Cimmra eProcurement Suite or create Orders right here to be synchronized with your ERP transparent to all Event Stakeholders.
Order Acceptance and Fulfilment
Suppliers access their on-line Dashboard to receive Orders, review and accept Terms and Schedule of Supply. In-system communication helps coordinate for pre-shipment inspections, etc beforehand.
ASN and Goods Receipt
Suppliers simply flip an Order into an ASN to notify the Buyer, Warehouse and other Stakeholders with shipment details. ASN can simply be flipped into a GRN for supplies received, for smooth Order-to-Fulfilment reconciliation.
Settlement
An approved ASN can be simply flipped to Invoice which in turn goes to facilitate a 3-way matching of Supply Order, ASN and invoice to serve for automated payment progressing with Smart Exception Handling.
Supplier Life Cycle Management
Complete management of a Supplier’s association with an organization from application for empanelment, scrutiny and on-boarding till disassociation - with periodic supplier due diligence, supplier performance and quality tracking.
Supplier Compliance
Cimmra eProcurement Suite tracks validity of any compliance linked certifications or licenses and highlights any upcoming expiry that can suspend the Supplier from smooth supply operations. The system also maintains an audits schedule with feedback to track action against non-conformity.
Supplier Risk Mitigation
Cimmra eProcurement Suite’s Instant Intelligence and On-Demand Analytics highlight the risks associated in dealing with a Supplier, in terms of Compliance, Timeliness, Quality, Certifications, Past Supply Discrepancies, Service Satisfaction and other parameters, in order for the Buyer to take an informed decision.
Issues Management
Cimmra eProcurement Suite facilitates smooth logging, redressal and closure of issues relating to Procurement. The Issues Management interface helps classify each Issue into a category which is then assigned by an automated workflow to an individual or group charged with its resolution and future mitigation with transparent progress tracking and life-cycle management.
Auctions Setup
Auctions can be created by flipping an RFx or Event Clone and just modifying the required parameters or a new Event freshly from scratch by defining Items and Suppliers; just selecting suitable Bidding Rules, Timelines and Publishing the Auction Event.
Bidding
Suppliers, Buyers and Team Members can Collaboratively Participate in the Auction Event through an intuitive and convenient interface nicely aided Instant Intelligence and Event Actions throughout its Bidding Cycles.
Awarding Auctions
Buyers can conveniently evaluate the Bids and Responses and speedily award the Event to the most suitable Supplier, aided by Scenarios and Instant Intelligence.
Platform Independent
Cimmra eProcurement Suite is designed and developed to run across different operating systems and VM’s such as Linux and Windows.
Device Independent
The responsive nature of our platform provides flexibility to users of various computing platforms like Desktops, Laptops, Tablets, iPads and Mobile Phones running Android or iOS.
Inherent Security
Cimmra eProcurement Suite’s multi layered platform hosted on Microsoft Azure is deployed with audit-ready security standards by leading agencies in the security space, thus adhering to a modern company’s stringent IT security policies. The architecture also allows an organization to configure dual authentication and apply its own SSL certification for encryption.
Integration with Custom ERP Platforms
Cimmra eProcurement Suite has been built to work seamlessly with leading ERP platforms of the world as well as custom-built ERPs and supports multiple global approaches for integration and data synchronization.