Features of the ProcServe Commerce Hub for Suppliers

The ProcServe Commerce Hub for supplier organisations includes the following content and transaction management modules:

Catalogue Search Module
Provide your customers' users with an online ‘shopping site' to order directly from you at your agreed rates

• Powerful catalogue search engine using the latest indexing technology to search across thousands of product lines in sub 1-second timeframes.
• Intuitive and user-friendly interface designed to replicate a home shopping experience, enabling customers' users to find the products and services they need quickly and efficiently.
• Shopping Lists and Favourites function allows users to save commonly requested items and shopping baskets and re-use them at the click of a mouse.
• Search methods include quick-search, parameter search and category drill-down.

Manage all of your eProcurement-enabled catalogue content in one place

• Rich item detail including images, long descriptions, links to external web pages and multiple attributes.
• ‘Smartforms' enables the configuration of very complex or service-based requirements, through use of drop-down fields, selectable parameters and a dynamic price generator.
• Automatic calculation of delivery charges based on size or value of order.

Maintain your own content and let your customers' access it directly from their eProcurement applications

• Support for all common PunchOut protocols, including cXML, OAG and OCI, allowing for simple integration from eProcurement applications.

Transaction Management Module
Avoid building and maintaining technical interfaces with buyer systems by letting the ProcServe Commerce Hub manage your customer connectivity

• Advanced electronic gateway for all eProcurement transactions.
• Integrate with order and logistics systems or create procurement documents such as invoices directly online.
• Supports all common XML-based transaction standards including cXML, OAG and BASDA
• Documents supported include Quotations, Purchase Orders, Invoices, Order Acknowledgments, Advance Shipping Notices and Credit Notes.

Robust Government-strength transaction gateway including the latest security and disaster recovery technologies

• 24x7 uptime and 99.x resilience ensures a robust and secure method of transmitting procurement documents across the Internet.
• Hot-standby datacentre allows for continued service in the event of major system outage

Use the ProcServe Commerce Hub to track and manage all of your customer eProcurement transactions through a single, easy to use web-based interface

• Document Tracker module provides online status of all transactions to provide complete visibility of the external stages of the purchase-to-pay (P2P) cycle.
• Download documents as electronic files for importing into other sales or logistics applications.

MIS Module
Track what your customers are buying at an unprecedented level of detail

• Comprehensive selection of reports to show detailed information of all transactions flowing through the Hub.
• See spend by buyer or category. Track trends over time or view activity day-by-day.
• View reports online or download as PDF, Excel, CSV or TIFF files.