Purchase Order Management

Elemica’s Purchase Order Management solution reduces risk of errors with manually entered orders. When a fax, email, paper or phone order is sent, success is assumed until something goes wrong. Consider the time spent on low value-add activities including confirming items, shipments, prices, invoice amounts and payments.

Electronically send purchase orders, changes and cancellations, receive order acknowledgements, invoices, and shipping notices with suppliers in a variety of data standards and languages. Supplier partners can access data by automated emails, online portal, or file integration with ERP connectivity.

By connecting and automating the procure to pay cycle with your inbound supply, Elemica provides visibility and exception-based insights. These insights are for procurement and supplier management to highlight product, location, supplier, shipment, and orders by request and promise views.

Invoice Management

Invoicing practices have room for improvement. Paper invoices produce extra costs and errors. They can be routed to the wrong person or department, or rejected because of data problems. Automate the account payable process improves efficiency, reduces overhead, and saves money.

With Elemica Invoice Management, your business reduces costs, decreases cycle times and errors. It keeps you complying with government mandates. Eliminate printing, stuffing envelopes, stamping, mailing, receiving, opening envelopes, bar-coding, scanning, manual routing and disposing of paper. Elemica QuickLink Email P2P can eliminate short term issues.

They are part of a comprehensive inter-company automation strategy to drive continued improvements. Elemica Invoice Management quickly and easily converts you from paper to electronic.

Quicklink Email Buy

Imagine integrating suppliers without requiring them to have integration software! With Elemica QuickLink Email Buy electronic purchase orders are automatically converted to email and routed to your suppliers. Suppliers view orders as they do today, only now they can confirm directly through email. Confirmed orders are automatically routed back to the Buyer’s ERP, resulting in: No costly integrations, rapid on-boarding and ability to scale as needed.

Additionally, you can receive order invoices from your supplier automatically into your ERP, ensuring validation of the proper quantity and payment information.

Vendor Management Inventory

Managed inventory programs require planners to analyze order information using web portals and spreadsheets. These manual approaches put inventory and working capital at risk resulting in costly inventory inefficiencies. Gain control over inventory in your supply chain and reduce unplanned events.

Collaboratively manage order replenishment by providing suppliers the tools and visibility to optimize delivery schedules. Know the order was accepted for the right quantity and date desired. Buyers want VMI because it’s a better way to replenish your inbound supply. Give your suppliers the information they need to determine optimum performance with VMI with the planning system from Elemica making it possible.

Elemica ensures anyone can participate in your VMI initiative.

Delivery Forecast

Analyzing demand by manually reviewing delivery forecasts is tedious, costly and error-prone. Now, streamline your process by automating order determination and generation with your suppliers. Connect and automate the scheduling agreement process with your inbound supply.

Elemica’s Delivery Forecast solution combines the order with a forecast. Trading partners usually do not have the necessary systems to accept embedded releases with forecast information. Elemica designed an engine that splits the forecast and the orders within the message. Subsequent orders or changes are validated against existing orders to remove duplicate orders.

Certificate of Analysis

Automate test results for inbound raw materials ensuring quality compliance. Elemica’s Certificate of Analysis (COA) is a manufacturing lot number specific document that is sent by a supplier to convey the characteristics and test results indicating the quality of the raw material product.

Elemica transmits and provides business logic on COAs to integrate with ERP applications and download documents via a portal.

Strategic Sourcing

Excellence in spend management is vital to the overall competitiveness of an organization. By connecting your company to the largest process industry sourcing ecosystem, you gain deep category knowledge and expertise to provide reduced purchase prices, better collaboration with suppliers, and an increase in your team’s constrained resource capabilities.

Elemica’s Sourcing Product Suite is designed to be flexible, and platform neutral. Realize the full potential of your current sourcing investment with a consultative, ‘technology agnostic’ approach. Our team of experts will drive measurable savings on either your technology platform or ours. Elemica‘s implementation is fast and easy, blending with your purchasing organization and working at your direction, so you get just the right amount of sourcing assistance to elevate your sourcing strategy to world-class status.