Gain Comprehensive Oversight Over all Procurement Projects with Strategic Sourcing Management Software.
ARCUS® Strategic Sourcing Management (SSM) is a cloud-based solution designed to streamline and optimise your strategic sourcing projects, instead of losing time to inefficient process. Above all, using our strategic sourcing software, you can build a standardised process for sourcing projects, and map each stage of your current strategic sourcing process.
In short, you can discover the benefits of full oversight over project goals, and complete visibility for all relevant stakeholders.
ARCUS® SSM provides the tools and insights you need to make informed sourcing decisions and achieve your procurement objectives.
With Strategic Sourcing Management:
Centralised platform: Manage all sourcing project data, communication, and documentation, in a single, secure repository, accessible to all stakeholders.
Automated workflows: Streamline your sourcing process with automated tasks, intelligent workflows, and configurable approval processes, ensuring efficiency and compliance.
Real-time collaboration: Communicate and collaborate with suppliers and internal stakeholders seamlessly within the platform, promoting transparency and efficient decision-making.
Data-driven insights: Leverage customisable reports, interactive dashboards, and seamless integration with ARCUS® Analytics. Gain valuable insights from your sourcing data and drive strategic decision-making, instead of operating via guesswork.
What are the Benefits of Strategic Sourcing Software?
- Set sourcing project goals.
- Streamline sourcing project management.
- Configurable workflows to match internal processes.
- Fully auditable procurement solution.
- Secure storage of project documents.
- Data visualisation when used with ARCUS® Analytics.
Customisable Alerts and Reporting
Maintain complete oversight and transparency across sourcing projects, so you are always aware of project task-status.
Process Automation
Automate various strategic sourcing processes, including approval workflows with configurable delegation of authority.
Embed Environmental, Social and Governance Drivers
Record your ESG objectives at the beginning of your sourcing project to ensure transparency towards project sustainability considerations.
Case study
Whitbread wanted to ensure that they are managing their sourcing projects as effectively, efficiently and as transparently as possible.
By doing so, the procurement department can achieve best market value from their sourcing projects, while confirming that they are operating in a task-based, standardised manner to ensure best practices are being enforced.
To increase confidence in their sourcing management, Whitbread implemented ARCUS® SSM, Trade Interchange's strategic sourcing software which maps the various stages of current and planned purchasing processes.
You can download this light case study to find out more about ARCUS® SSM and how it has helped Whitbread with strategic sourcing management.