Purchasing Tools

The Purchasing Tools Team in Solvay Business Services Lisbon is responsible to support the usage of specific tools and data management. 

The list of Purchasing tools and main activities are described below.

List of Purchasing Tools

> CONVERGENCE

Convergence is a single worldwide collaborative platform, allowing buyers to manage information about suppliers in one place. One tool replacing multiple current tool and information such as: Visit Minutes (EBEV), contract management, value creation tracking (SATT), CSR assessment, Category strategies and financial information, which were previously tracked and stored on different places and tools.

“With the SRM tool Convergence we are one step ahead of our peers. It is the next generation tool, which will further leverage our collaborative way of working and to share and find information quicker.” 

> BW - SPRINT PURCHASING

The objective of BW SPRINT queries is to offer a simplified global reporting solution for the PtP process, from procurement to payment, to meet the requirements of the Purchasing and Supply Chain Excellence Function and SBS PtP process.

> QLIKVIEW

The in-memory leader and fastest spreading business intelligence platform in the world, QlikView is leading a new class of easy-to-use, fast and flexible business analysis solutions that empower individuals to improve organizational performance and drive.

QlikView uses next generation patented in-memory association technology to make sophisticated analysis and reporting dramatically easier to deploy, use and maintain.

> SAP systems (WBP-400 (SPRINT), PF1-050 (VWF), PF1-020, WP1-400, BP2-400)

Access requests from Purchasing Family related to the above mentioned systems are under the scope of Purchasing Tools team.

> SRM7

This tool is used in order to create shopping carts for direct consumption items, created with or without reference to catalogs, and to approve them in SRM (Supplier Relationship Manager).

> ZYCUS 

Zycus is a SAAS provider (Software as a service). The application proposed by Zycus contains several modules that can be purchased or not by its customers. 

Solvay has purchased two modules:

• iSource for eRFx and Reverse Auction

• iSupplier (also called SIM-Supplier information Management) for supplier maintenance.

Along with these modules, comes TMS (Tenant Management System), which is the module for user maintenance.  

List of Purchasing Tools Activities