ARCUS® SIM is a central platform for collecting, storing and managing supplier data, that helps reduce the risk to brand and ensure supplier compliance.
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Facilities Management
ARCUS® has been designed and evolved by working with organisations providing facilities management services. This has helped us to address some of the major pain points professionals face across multiple departments, including procurement, sustainability, supply chain and technical.
ARCUS® is used in some of the largest organisations in the world, such as Sodexo, Morrisons, AAK, Drax and P&O Ferries and can be integrated into internal systems as required. The 360° overview provided by the comprehensive dashboard delivers proven reassurance of reliability and ease of use for C-Suite professionals.
Why ARCUS®?
- Protect company brand.
- Enables collaboration across multiple departments including procurement, technical, finance, legal and supply chain without incurring any additional charges.
- Trade Interchange holds an ISO 27001 accredited Information Security Management System.
- Fully audited system demonstrating actions taken to mitigate risk.
- Automation, artificial intelligence and machine learning reducing manual tasks and freeing up time.
- Deployed in over 25 countries and in multiple languages.
Confidence in supplier management for C-Suite professionals in facilities management
ARCUS® Supplier Management Software, hosted in the cloud by Trade Interchange, has been proven to work in the facilities management sector, and delivers supply base confidence for the companies such as Sodexo through a streamlined solution.
Protect company brand
Protect company brand and reputation by assessing suppliers’ financial risk and capabilities. ARCUS® Connect, our native API, allows integration with other solutions, ensuring all information can be automatically shared across systems – eliminating the need to re-key data. Data can be transferred in both directions between your current internal and external systems and ARCUS®. Examples of integrations include NAVEX Global and ERP systems including SAP, Oracle, and Microsoft Dynamics.
Licencing Model
Our licence model is for one licence per customer. This enables unlimited numbers of employees to log in and access the system without incurring any additional charges. This authorisation can be extended to third party organisations working on your behalf following approval from the appropriate stakeholder.
The amount of information which can be viewed, edited, and downloaded can be determined by profiles which are created; typically, based on team or job role but profiles can be configured to match a company’s requirements.
We allow the number of concurrent users to 50. This means that 50 people within a company or third-party organisations working on behalf of the company that have been granted user profiles can be logged into the system at the same time.
Suppliers are not included in the concurrent user restrictions; therefore, all suppliers can be logged into the system at the same time without any restrictions.
Information Security
Our ISO 27001 accredited Information Security Management System ensures that all elements relating to Data Security, Availability and Integrity are covered, especially in relation to our customers’ data and the services we provide.
The system is audited by SGS, a UKAS accredited auditor. We have held the ISO 27001 accreditation since 2013. Trade Interchange and our hosting partner both operate within GDPR framework, and the ARCUS® platform is GDPR compliant.
Auditable System
All information within the system is auditable, allowing users to confidently demonstrate to internal and external stakeholders, such as auditors, the steps that have been taken when carrying out comprehensive checks on suppliers. This includes any corrective actions that have been taken to mitigate the associated risks.
Automation and Artificial Intelligence
Reminders can be set against every document uploaded, meaning site-specific expiry dates for certifications will automatically be requested, in addition to company-level information. This ensures that each company and approved site remains compliant and that the relevant departments can take action to manage and maintain information efficiently.
Electronically map your approval process to match best practice or internal purchasing processes with configurable alerts and emails notifying of key terms, milestones, critical task dates and events. Bi-directional and auto-escalation workflows can be configured to reduce the time spent waiting for approvals and to highlight bottlenecks in the system.
Using artificial intelligence, ARCUS® can scan documentation required by an organisation providing facilities management services, as it is uploaded by suppliers, verifying that the right certificate has been submitted and that the dates and values are valid.
Countries and Languages Deployment
Our systems are deployed in over 25 countries across four continents made up of single contracts as well as regional and global contracts. ARCUS® is currently available in multiple languages including English, French, German, Dutch, Italian, Polish, Portuguese, Spanish, Norwegian and simplified Chinese. We are happy to discuss additional languages as required. This demonstrates our flexibility and scalability with regards to our supplier management software.
End-to-end Solution
The ARCUS® platform includes eight individual modules that can be implemented standalone, in any combination or in any order that can be categorised into three separate families; ARCUS® Supply, ARCUS® Source and ARCUS® Product.
ARCUS® Supply
The ARCUS® Supply family enables collaboration between multiple departments, confirming supplier compliance with government legislation, industry standards and company policies while also helping to manage all supplier and contract information as well as evaluating supplier performance.
ARCUS® Supply manages the lifecycle of all suppliers and the collection and verification of their information and documents, streamlining activities such as supplier on-boarding, contract, rebate, and performance management.
ARCUS® Source
The ARCUS® Source family gives procurement professionals confidence in supplier selection, negotiation and the management of all their strategic sourcing projects.
ARCUS® Source ensures all goods are sourced from suppliers who have proven they can meet a company’s needs while also achieving the best market value for goods and having a full overview of current and future procurement projects.
ARCUS® Product
The ARCUS® Product family enables stakeholders to manage and efficiently collect and maintain critical product information.
ARCUS® Product allows suppliers to enter and upload product data enabling users to easily validate and approve products using custom workflows. This information is effortlessly shared between departments and is used as the central database for product specifications and during all stages of new product development.
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ARCUS® SCM centralises contract data, standardises processes and automates tasks to improve efficiency of managing, approving and renewing contracts.
ARCUS® SPM is an advanced scorecard that allows users to track and evaluate the performance of suppliers against corporate SLAs and KPIs, helping to identify risk and non-compliance and maximise supplier value.
ARCUS® SSM maps the various stages of your current or planned strategic purchasing processes, improving efficiency, increasing visibility, reducing bottlenecks and ensuring best practice.
ARCUS® eRFX is an online tendering tool used to pre-qualify current or potential suppliers, ensuring selected suppliers are qualified and able to deliver the necessary products or services.
Using ARCUS® eAUC, pre-qualified suppliers are invited to online negotiations using the auction type best suited to the business’s needs or goals, achieving best market value without comprising on quality.
ARCUS® PIM automates the process for collecting detailed information about supplier products, while providing a shared view and process for all departments. This ensures product data is accurate and approved by all relevant stakeholders.
ARCUS® NPD centralises new product development information, standardises processes and automates tasks to improve the efficiency of new product development from concept through to sale.
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“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.”
Suzanne Coumbaros, Data Governance Director, Global Supply Management, SodexoAre you ready to streamline your supplier management?
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Case Study
Sodexo, a world-leader in over 100 different services, initially implemented ARCUS® Supplier Information Management (SIM) and ARCUS® Supplier Contract Management (SCM) to reduce risks and complexities associated with supplier and contract management in its regional operations. However, for Sodexo North America, which covers the USA and Canada, a large region where local areas adhere to different rules and legislation, ARCUS® SIM and ARCUS® SCM needed to work in a different manner to adapt to these circumstances and increase efficiency in supplier information and contract management.