Compleat Software has launched a Buyers Group aimed at reducing the cost of purchasing items for SMEs and Corporates by providing online catalogue-style buying control and guaranteeing lower prices through group purchasing.
The company says that the Compleat Buyers Group (CBG) enables organisations of any size to reduce the cost of discretionary spend by leveraging the entire CBG’s collective spending power to achieve better prices. Where it says it differs from other buying groups is that it utilises P2P and expenses software to ensure nominated suppliers, goods, services and prices are used every time by the user’s employees.
Neil Robertson, CEO Compleat Software, explains, “Most buying groups focus on the large items that are purchased, which in most cases is where the business is both diligent and competent at getting best price. CBG succeeds by focusing on everything else – it sweats the small stuff for you because you don’t have time to!”
Products and services are presented to users through pre-configured and automatically maintained catalogues. As the Buyers Group focuses on common discretionary spend and not specific vertical market specialisation, it says its service is relevant to every type of organisation.
The company says it will undertake a detailed survey of an organisation’s spend, capturing information at a line item level on all purchase invoices for a period of one to three months. The current prices paid by the organisation are then compared to the Buyers Group prices and extrapolated to provide an estimate of the annual saving potential. The resulting report is a key component of the implementation project, enabling the relevant catalogues to be enabled during implementation and generating savings, says the company from the moment the system goes live.
