TLE.market callers have the experience and knowledge to qualify key issues with executives in areas of eProcurement.  This type of expertise is used to help us ask the right questions of a busy exec and avoid irrelevant questions that may lead them to hang up.  

Below are just a few of the high level & granular topics we can discuss:

Examples of High Level Issues
• Managing supplier relationships and agreements
• Lowering purchasing overhead/ labor costs
• Lowering of inventory carry costs
• Increasing sales by lowering costs or increasing product margin

Examples of Granular Knowledge
Bid
• Companies may need to receive and capture unsolicited bids
• Pricing info my be extracted for comparison and modification
• Bids may need to be assigned to buyers
• Companies may need to create formal bid documents
• Bidders may  need to be tracked for performance
• Managers may need to send out notices of expiration

Auctions & Catalogs
• Content should be user-definable
• Products should show a part/ SKU number
• Clients may need the ability to check inventory status
• T he clients' credit may need to be automatically checked
• Sellers may need a tool to easily up-date content
• Auctions may be competitive or collaborative
• Buyers may come in as anonymous or be visible

Vendor Management
• One vendor could have various commodity codes
• Companies could want to view vendors by commodity
• Firms may have authorized vendors/ manufacturers (AML/ AVL)
• Payment terms & shipping info can be applied
• Various vendor performance criteria can be measured
• Companies may need to identify minority & women owned firms
• Vendor complaints may need to be tracked & logged

Requisitions & Contracts
•PO requisitions may need to be sent for approval; workflow
•RFQs may need to be automatically created
•Money may or may not be encumbered at req entry
•Multiple requisitions may need to be consolidated to 1 voucher
•Management may need visibility to contract terms
•Buyers may want to have contract templates
•Management may need to be alerted to expiring contracts

Purchasing (Buyers)
• Three-way matches may be too cumbersome
• Companies may need to create blanket POs
• Managers may want to track payments against a PO
• Agents may need to set PO tolerances for receiving
• POs may require multiple ship-to's by line item
• POs could be automatically sent at a reorder point via email
• People may need to purchase by description

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