Sourcing

COA Solutions provides complete sourcing, supplier and contract management functionality through its core solutions and from its 'best of breed' eSourcing and eTendering partner.

eSourcing

eSourcing is a suite of collaborative, web-based tools that enable procurement professionals and suppliers to conduct the strategic activities within the procurement lifecycle over the internet via a fully hosted and secure environment.

The solution set will provide organisations the ability to fully facilitate eSourcing through a comprehensive set of Request for Quotes, eTendering (including the ability to fully facilitate OJEU notice processing), eAuction functionality as well as supplier selection and contract award management.

Contract and Supplier Management

COA Solutions provides comprehensive contract and supplier management functionality which assists organisations to fully manage their contracts, including fixed price product-based contracts and services-based or volume-based contracts. This helps the controlled visibility of those contracts and associated suppliers and assists organisations in controlling their maverick spend.

Catalogue management

In addition to the above, the eProcurement solution has been designed to provide the flexibility to enable your supplier base through a number of catalogue management options including:

• Internal catalogue creation and maintenance
• Supplier catalogue upload
• Punch-out capabilities to catalogue aggregators/marketplaces and individual supplier sell-side portals including Zanzibar, @UKPLC, Science Warehouse and IDeA
• Full services based procurement functionality
• Full non-catalogue ordering functionality

Advanced reporting

COA Solutions provides advanced reporting functionality to allow procurement teams to report on such areas as contract compliance and supplier performance against pre-defined service level agreements, helping organisations to control and monitor the performance of their suppliers.