Guide your users to your preferred and vetted suppliers, and show them how to work with them through simplified information and relevant documents.
This will require users to fill in specific key information and present them with options that align with their needs. From there, ordering from the supplier is just a click away - directly within P2Connct or in your existing ordering platform(s).
Based on a supplier's description or keywords, your users can initiate a search and be visually guided to the matched supplier results, allowing them to assess whether a supplier should be used directly or if Procurement involvement is required.
If your user already knows which supplier(s) they should or can use, supplier details, contract information, and how to order can be easily found without involving colleagues within the Procurement team - more self-service, fewer redundant questions.
All organisations have different buying channels; for a user, this setup is not always easy to work with. Show your users where to place an order and how to engage with your suppliers - it's just a click away for them. This will save you time replying to redundant questions and provide your users with a more efficient self-service setup, allowing you to work smarter with more time to spare on more important work.
You might already have an order tool in use for some of your sites? Then just link your users to that portal, and utilise P2Connct on top of your setup.
Should a credit card be used? Just provide your discount code and the link where the user should order. Need to pay onsite at the hotel? Add your guidance and any needed pricing sheet.
Route (some) orders through the P2Connct platform, and benefit from approval workflows, budget management, in-request messages, confirmation of delivery and supplier ratings.
No results found? Naturally guide your users to their options, like reaching out to you or your request portal for their needs, or even providing them with threshold guidance to act on their own.
Through our base plan, you can guide your users to all your buying channels, except creating orders directly in P2Connct - this can be utilised with a per-user monthly cost when and if you decide to use this, and for specific suppliers and locations
You define per supplier how your users should create their order; this can be by linking to your existing order platform or forms, to an external website or platform like a supplier's website or ticket platform, or routing orders directly through the P2Connct platform itself - thus taking advantage of our custom simple approval flows, visual budget management, request messaging, confirmation of delivery, and even supplier ratings to drive more insight into perception of your suppliers.
You can even expand your buying channels into areas such as employee agreements, referring to specific individuals who manage internal services like car leasing or facility services, thus making P2Connct a true guiding platform for more than just ordering.
You can read more about utilising a guided ordering platform in our blog.
Procurement can't be everywhere - and maybe it shouldn't - so naturally, there will be suppliers you in Procurement have vetted, negotiated with, and signed contracts with. These suppliers are what we call Preferred suppliers: a group of suppliers that should be utilised to achieve the best value for money, as well as to strengthen partnerships and reduce risk through working with them.
Approved suppliers are suppliers that your organisation has used in the past, suppliers that you might not want to be used as a first option, or even suppliers that are just required to have as part of your company's supplier base.
We want to make it easy for users to be compliant and work with your preferred suppliers, so wherever users look in P2Connct, preferred suppliers will always be shown first, e.g., in search results, clearly tagged as preferred and in matches when a user goes through a blank intake form.
Start guiding your users in just a few days with our intuitive intake platform, and expand with additional functionalities as needed.