The RFQ's and Tenders are contained in the "Immediate.xls" and "Longterm.xls" files. The “Immediate” files contain buyers' daily open purchase requisitions for which quotes/tenders are required immediately. The "Longterm" files contain buyers' stock items (normally kept in a warehouse), for which price agreements or contracts are awarded for periods of up to 36 months. Sometimes buyers will formally request suppliers to submit quotes/tenders, but you do not have to wait for these invitations. Quotes/tenders can be submitted on a continuous basis. Hence the reference to these MS Excel files as "ROOC". ROOC stands for "Repetitive Online Offer Compiler". Just click the "Upload File" button on the spread sheet that you have downloaded, to submit your responses via our website. Microsoft Excel 2000 or better is required to use ROOC.

You can link your company to more than 38 000 material groups (product categories) and services, as well as brand names. New brand names can be created if required. You can publish your company brochure, logo, contact details, product catalogues, special offers and many other certificates or documents on the website. Your website can be linked to ours. Your company's profile can be viewed from the Search For Suppliers page of our website. Depending on your company's rank on our website, your company logo will be displayed on the Home or Search For Suppliers pages.

This includes the ability to accept or reject a purchase order and to provide any other feedback to the buyer.

This includes the ability to request price, or any other adjustments that may be required.

If you are already doing business with a buyer organisation on our website, then various performance indicators will be available on our website. That will assist you to proactively take remedial action if required. Your company's performance profile is used by buyers when adjudicating quotes and tenders.

The "Profiles.xls" file can be used to apply online as a vendor/supplier to a selected buyer.

Buyer contact details for all the participating buyer organisations can be found by clicking on the name of the buyer organisation.

Your requirements for products, services, projects, capital equipment can be displayed on our website without manual intervention, and the data can be refreshed at intervals of choice. Any supplier can respond, but you will know during the evaluation process whether or not a supplier must still be approved.

Our "Continuous Online Opportunity Reviewer" (COOR) software includes a very sophisticated evaluation mechanism with evaluation criteria of choice. There is also a "scenario manager" with the ability to create and save one or more scenarios.

All required documents subsequent to business award, for example price agreements, contracts and purchase orders, are automatically emailed to suppliers and published on our website for retrieval by suppliers.

Suppliers can on a continuous basis submit prices for any of a buyer's requirements. The buyer will be warned when current prices are no longer competitive.

This includes price movement analysis, comparison with market prices, acceptance or rejection of price amendments requested, and warning of expiry of current contracts or price agreements.

The buyer and supplier have a dynamic view of open purchase orders with a feedback facility via the website.

The buyer and supplier have a dynamic view of suppliers' performance based on a range of performance indicators.

This includes a cross reference to material groups (product categories), services, brand names and uploaded documents/certificates with powerful search/filter functionality.

Buyers' performance based on a range of performance indicators is available.

Your surplus or redundant stock can easily be identified and advertised on our website. See the "ForSale.xls" files on the website.

Use our website to rate suppliers/vendors before you add them to your own database – see the "Profiles.xls" files on the website.

Numerous, customizable supply chain reports are available. New ones can be created seamlessly.

Our solution contains comprehensive internal audit functionality that protects the buyer and assists the internal auditor to quickly perform an audit using multiple criteria of choice.

The Search For Suppliers page of our website will assist you to find potential suppliers of your requirements by Company Name, Material Group (Product Category) or Service classification, Brand Name, Special Offers, Types of downloadable Documents/Certificates, Country and Town. Full contact details are available.

Of particular interest is the ability to search for suppliers with "Special Offers", using the Search For Suppliers page. You can search for suppliers with special offers for specific product categories or services or brand names, and in a specified country/town. You also have the ability to subscribe (at no cost) to "Special Offers" from one or more suppliers. So when that "Special Offer" changes, you'll get notified via email (MS Office 2007 or better is required for the notification feature). For your convenience, the "Special Offers" and all the other downloadable documents show expiry dates.

Buyer organisations that have surplus or redundant stock, can display it on our website, so that any interested party can submit an offer.

With our "Duplicate Finder" solution, we can quickly identify possible duplicates in your data. We provide you with the results including a "similarity score", so that you can take remedial action. Contact us if you need more information on this.

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