NEOAUG Spring 2011 Presentation - How The Mentor Network implemented iProcurement and Purchasing saving millions of dollars annually

The Mentor Network is a nationwide social service company with hundreds of locations which needed to implement an electronic solution to it’s current method of Requisitioning and Purchasing. The key pieces of this solution were to have up to 2000 internal buyers use iProcurement to create requisitions for major Suppliers. The largest Suppliers are for Office Supplies, Medical Supplies, and IT Hardware and Software. Mentor wanted all personnel to purchase these items from 3 suppliers, one for each of the above categories. However, personnel within the company were bypassing these vendors to purchase goods from other vendors reducing the discounts Mentor received. By using iProcurement, all purchases have to go through the system by using punchouts and electronic catalogs. The payment of these items is by Ghost P-Card at time of shipment. The discounts received are in the millions of dollars per year. Also, the next 10 largest suppliers were also added to the iProcurement System. The payback period for this project was several months.

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