Many companies are finding significant cost savings in moving forward in providing seamlessly integrated e-procurement solutions. Some are pushing out self provisioning procurement tools to their end users while keeping an eye on not diluting IT governance standards. ValCom offers different procurement options to help drive down the cost of buying technology. As part of ValCom’s suite of ITIL based applications called WebSPOC, ValCom has an e-procurement system that can not only combine service provisioning with the procurement of your IT asset, but it can integrate into most systems that support SQL or cXML.

ValCom’s e-Procurement Solution
ValCom has been a pioneer in electronic procurement shaping the way businesses leverage best practices to drive down the cost of procurement and increase efficiencies. ValCom’s web based IT asset sourcing catalog, called WebVCA, is a 24 X 7 customized catalog. WebVCA provides a personal workspace that can front end the budget process with accurate quotes, provide approval management through a requisition process and place and track orders right through to delivery. WebVCA will:

• Reduce the cost of IT procurement through leveraging the strength of a single source supplier
• Improve the compliance of IT assets purchased by providing a customized catalog of just your approved items
• Provide real time pricing and product availability on over 100,000 items
• Report the status on each order placed including the tracking number once the order
  has shipped
• Automate the purchasing approval system through “punch out” capabilities to ValCom’s WebSPOC application for total provisioning workflow management
• Download invoicing information for electronic interface to automate your
  Accounts Payable process
• Streamline the ordering process by allowing quotes to be instantly converted to orders, either
  by the user or the user’s approving manager
• Present management reports that can help in leveraging additional proactive rebates from the manufacturers based on purchasing volume
• Allow retrieval of orders shipped based on your purchase order number, item serial number or
  even drill down to what orders had a particular item on them