Streamline purchasing with a Microsoft-connected solution
Purchasing can be a time consuming and inefficient processes, especially if requests for goods and services are processed manually using phone calls, emails, paper catalogs, and spreadsheets. Discover procurement with Dynamics 365 delivered with customizations by Rand Group. It’s a cloud-based solution that connects with the rest of your supply chain management operations to automate approval routing, enforce purchase agreements, track vendor performance, and more.
Maximize the effectiveness of your purchasing processes
Today’s highly competitive marketplace has pushed the business world to create an intricate, lean, and highly interdependent global supply. Smart players generate predictability, stability, and resilience by leveraging purchasing and sourcing solutions that reduce material costs and increase overall profitability while enabling better and faster decision-making. Rand Group makes this possible by delivering Dynamics 365 applications tailored to your business, which have built-in procurement functionality. It offers embedded tools for spend analysis, supplier performance management, and real-time vendor collaboration.
Rand Group is your certified Microsoft gold partner to implement and tailor cloud-based Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management or Dynamics 365 Business Central and the procurement modules based on your unique processes. The solution accelerates the digital transformation of your purchasing processes by improving communication across the supply chain while optimizing the cost and quality of material and service spend.
Control the purchasing process
Unlock significant value by ensuring that trade agreements are executed as intended with a centralized and searchable repository of all vendor communication, contracts, and transactions.
Secure optimal pricing and set purchasing policies
Negotiate the best price for raw materials and outsourced products based on intelligent insights from supplier performance, spend analysis, lead times, and the competitive landscape.
Enable strong vendor collaboration
Work together with suppliers as if they are part of an integrated and seamless pipeline. Use a single application to seamlessly collaborate with vendors, manage contracts, onboard them, and monitor performance like on-time delivery and quality.
Streamline purchasing processes with a vendor collaboration portal
Speed, accuracy, and a digital solution when communicating with vendors is an essential need for supply chain success. Dynamics 365 delivered by Rand Group includes a vendor collaboration portal to streamline communication.
Vendor collaboration features in Dynamics 365 include:
- Workflows to manage vendor collaboration user requests
- Interface with information about purchase orders, invoices, and consignment stock
- Ability to set up banking information for electronic payments
- Track and maintain vendor certifications
- Monitor and response to purchase orders
- View RFQs and respond with bids
- Create and maintain internal and external catalogs
Work with quality control and quality management tools
An key factor that impacts reputation in today’s market is the quality of goods and services. Dynamics 365 delivered by Rand Group includes procedures for checking the quality of products when they arrive from vendors, move through supply chain, and are sent to customers to help reduce the number of returns and maintain a strong reputation for quality.
Quality management features in Dynamics 365 include:
- Create and run quality tests to identify defective materials
- Set item sampling parameters and define quality guidelines
- Build test groups and quality associations
- Track the amount of time employees spend on quality control activities
- Manage nonconformance in customers, service requests, vendors, production, and coproducts
Discover other business solutions offered by Rand Group
Rand Group offers numerous Microsoft-powered solutions for supply chain optimization that we tailor to each client to transform your operations. Our team of software engineers will ensure your solution integrates with the rest of your technology stack and can accommodate unique processes and facilitate data flows. Explore other solutions below to compliment purchasing.
Demand Forecasting
Ensure you always have the right amount of inventory on hand accurately forecasting needs based on historical demand, seasonality, open opportunities, and sales forecasts. Generate both demand and supply plans, plus execute orders using a comprehensive demand forecasting solution.
Product Information Management
Manage all information and processes related to your products across supply chains networks. With a product information management solution, unify processes for faster decision-making, reduce the time from innovation to launch, and enforce product compliance.
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management
Dynamics 365 Supply Chain Management is an intelligent solution that connects with your ERP system to automate and optimize all aspects of the supply chain from procurement to transportation through AI, machine learning, and mixed reality.
Dynamics 365 Business Central
Business Central is a comprehensive business management solution on the cloud for small and mid-sized organizations that helps automate and streamline processes and manage your entire business, including supply chain operations and procurement.
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