FAQ - General Questions

FAQ - General Questions

What, exactly, does Your Supply Center do?

Your Supply Center organizes all your preferred vendors and consumable supplies into a single, customized web site for centralized ordering, as well as user, product, supplier and data management. It automates most of the processes involved in procurement, saving everyone time and money. It separates the technology that runs your supply channel from the vendors who supply the products, giving you more control. It increases accountability, eliminating maverick spending and waste. And, it increases the visibility of your system through up-to-the-minute reports, affording fresh insight and increased productivity. Your Supply Center will eliminate the chaos in your supply channel by making your system simpler and easier to use.

How does Your Supply Center simplify online catalog shopping?

Your Supply Center creates a single, customized web site that allows you to procure all your consumable supplies in one location, regardless of vendor. You will have one place to go for everything you need, and it will be right at your fingertips. This on-line marketplace will be the hub of your company’s supply chain, where everything can be coordinated, from monitoring a supplier’s performance to setting controls on spending.

How will Your Supply Center save me time and money?

Because Your Supply Center consolidates all your supplies and vendors into one website, it takes a minimum of steps to order anything. Also, the entire process is automated, so that reduces the time it takes as well. Why waste time ordering supplies when you have so many other things you could be doing? We feel the same way about costs. If you're not reducing costs, we're not doing our job. Waste is one thing we will not tolerate, and neither should you. We'll cut out the fat so you can see how your systems were meant to run. We'll find the "hidden money" and put it back in your pocket. A 15% reduction in cost is not an unreasonable expectation. Sometimes it's more, sometimes less. But any reduction in this economy is good news!

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How will Your Supply Center automate my ordering processes?

Your Supply Center will automate your order requisitions, requests for approval, e-mail confirmations, status reports and inventory levels. It will also interconnect your data systems, streamlining the flow of information from one system to the next.

How does Your Supply Center improve communications?

Everything in business comes down to communications, which is why we emphasize it so strongly. Not only will we help you communicate more effectively with your vendors, we'll help you interconnect all the people, systems and data in your supply chain. Information will flow like greased lightning. Automatically generated emails will notify the people in your system when changes occur, and all information will be kept current.

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How will Your Supply Center give me more control over my supply chain and my spending?

Your Supply Center allows you to change your vendors without changing your system. It also lets you set authorization, viewing and pricing filters to control what users see and access, as well as their spending levels and budgets. By establishing and setting these controls, you’ll be able to curb maverick spending, reduce errors and avoid costly mistakes.

How will Your Supply Center make my supply chain more visible?

Your Supply Center lets you to see your entire supply chain in a single view, giving you access to reports that track, measure and improve the way you spend money, as well as how your resources move through the system. With better information you can improve your insight and foresight to make more informed decisions and do a better job complying with regulations.

How will Your Supply Center help me build employee incentive programs?

Good employees are hard to find, so anything you can do to build loyalty and make your employees happy is a good investment. Your Supply Center has many ways to do that, from creating a company store chock full of items you know your employees will love, to running sales and marketing contests. Use your imagination. The sky's the limit!

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