Hosted in the cloud, ARCUS^® delivers supply base confidence through a streamlined solution

“The questionnaire is very intuitive, and suppliers found it easy to use from day one. Suppliers and agents are filling them in themselves, which reduces administrative work on our side.”

"We could see instantly how the flexible solution could benefit the organisation by improving efficiency and enforcing compliance."

"Our focus is on quality and on delivering consistently high standards. We also take an ethical approach to modern slavery and the severity of allergen risks. Combine those, with our stance on animal welfare, and it means there is a high level of supplier management administration to undertake. It is, therefore, crucial for us to get things right, especially in our supply chain. The ARCUS^® platform is the solution for us"

"Thanks to ARCUS^® eAUC, our procurement team has adopted reverse eAuctions across a range of categories. By incorporating eAuctions as part of our category management toolkit, this has resulted in Drax realising cost savings over and above traditional procurement methods, while reducing the time we spend negotiating with suppliers. The eAuction tool from Trade Interchange is a low-cost solution to leverage spend across common categories of spend across Drax.”

"As a team we now have one data source instead of a number of local spreadsheets, this is fully searchable and means we can immediately access approved supplier and product information."

"Trade Interchange’s ARCUS^® modules are a key tool in helping us realise efficiencies in terms of cost and time across many departments of our brands. The system continues to be essential in aiding our teams manage the complex challenges of allergens, antibiotic use and sustainability whilst helping us to monitor and prevent modern slavery within our supply chain."

"Trade Interchange’s ARCUS^® modules are a key tool in helping us realise efficiencies in terms of cost and time across many of our critical business processes."

“The procurement team has the ability to request large volumes of documentation and certification from potential suppliers prior to on-boarding, enabling supplier approval to be efficiently processed in one stage rather than through multiple rounds of approval. The information we collect is what the business needs to reduce risk and increase confidence in our supply chain. The automated alerts and reminders sent to suppliers to update their data ensures they remain compliant with legislation and company-driven requirements."

“We now have a powerful reporting tool that gives us valuable business information. ARCUS^® SIM has become the gateway for Sodexo to gather all supplier information globally.”

"Using ARCUS^® SSM, our procurement team now has a complete overview of all current and potential sourcing projects. This allows us to easily view the current status of each of these projects, while helping us to ensure best procurement practice is practised by everyone at Whitbread."

"The software is so easy to use and the workflows with the built-in alerts make it easy to ensure everything is kept up-to-date; it has been a real game changer to our procurement department."

"We have been using the ARCUS^® eRFX module for a number of years, and alongside the impeccable service we receive from Trade Interchange’s eSourcing Consultants, it is now an integral part of Morrisons’ eSourcing strategy."

"ARCUS^® SIM has proven to be a key tool in helping our procurement team collect, manage and verify, with confidence, the large volumes of supplier information needed to ensure our suppliers meet our sustainability and ethical purchasing practices."

"The deployment of ARCUS^® SIM in the business has greatly streamlined our data collection, and improved the ease of maintaining the information. Critically, it has allowed us to share information across geographical boundaries and departments."

"Trade Interchange’s ARCUS^® supplier management platform has allowed us to fully consolidate our supply chain and procurement function, and we now have a complete handle over all supplier data, contracts, performance and sourcing."

"The main pain points ARCUS^® has helped us with is that all of the suppliers can be in one place and every department from our company can log can and check the information that they are after."

"We are always committed to enforcing best practise in all aspects of the business and we are confident that the ARCUS^® platform fulfils all our requirements."

"Thanks to the ARCUS^® platform, the procurement and technical teams now have supply base confidence through the streamlined solution, which enables full visibility and control over supplier relationships across tendering, negotiating, on-boarding and contracting."

“The original system was paper-based and required four signatures for approval, buyers would spend ages chasing paper around the business. It was difficult to keep track of how the agreements were progressing and each department had their own method or system of tracking. Buyers had little visibility of the current status and the system was reliant on the buyer remembering what stage the process was at, to action key tasks.”

“Rebate Manager has revolutionised the way we manage that part of the business, from an archaic paper-based system that was inherited from the early days. We have now got a system that has taken us into the 21st century, and we are using all the technology available to us now to actually make our business more efficient.”

“We have to make sure all of our supplier information including manufacturing site information has been reviewed, approved and verified. ARCUS^® SIM and its Manufacturing Site Information plug-in enables this.”

“eRFXs are very much part of our current eSourcing strategy and have delivered huge benefits since we introduced them, not just in terms of significant time savings, but also in data quality, visibility of information and helping us streamline our overall sourcing and tendering strategy.”

“The audit trail of information is crucial in demonstrating we have taken the steps to mitigate risks and to ensure the highest standards of quality and ethical sourcing in our business”

“We can now request, review, approve and access all product specification information in an efficient way. ARCUS^® PIM provides an audit trail of the steps we have taken to mitigate the risk and provides a deeper, more granular level of control and insight over product information in one streamlined solution.”

“The work that the Trade Interchange team has done with Brakes since 2001 has been extremely valuable. Their software is intuitive and easy-to-use. Most importantly, the support we receive is the reason why eProcurement is so successfully embedded within our business”

"ARCUS^® SPM gives us a complete view of our supply base, and we are able to easily evaluate the performance of our suppliers against the KPIs that matter the most to us. Our scorecards were configured quickly and are so simple to use, and we now feel that we can make more informed purchasing decisions thanks to the software."

“The introduction of ARCUS^® SCM has significantly increased the efficiency of our contract creation, approval and implementation without changing our process. Taking the system online has greatly increased our visibility and reduced the time to complete the process as there is no waiting for manual interventions”

"Before ARCUS^® SIM parts of our information were held on a third-party database, some were within spreadsheets in our departments and some were held outside our department. We needed a supplier management system to streamline all of our information into one accessible place"

"It is essential that the teams have instant access to information in order to perform their duties with confidence. The reassurance of knowing all the information has been entered directly by the suppliers without any re-keying errors is invaluable."