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Key Features: An appeal for better project management Central workbench for optimal project management Customized templates to standardize procurement projects Web 2.0 based project creation & support for strategic and quick project types Role-based support for approvers and reviewers of each project phase Efficient project management is a cornerstone of successful procurement teams and often a key element that separates the best from the rest. As a recent NAO report concludes, billions of dollars are lost each year in the form of avoidable capital and operating costs, due to the failure of implementing best practices procurement and project management. Companies failing to focus on procurement project management are challenged with undefined goals, inefficient tracking, project delays, lack of accountability, and a lack of transparency in decision making or similar factors. The multitude of such factors indicate both the difficulty and the immense scope for improvement, a gap that can only be bridged with effective use of technology. Easy tagging and transition of opportunities from Zycus ianalyze into imanage projects Collaborative information sharing through project journals Task tracking with graphical views of completion status Reporting and multidimensional analytics to provide full visibility Project Innovation Zycus imanage, a dedicated procurement project management solution, empowers users with high degrees of on-screen configurability to facilitate superior project coherence. Designed to provide increased visibility and control on all types of procurement projects, imanage fosters easy collaboration among global procurement team members and utilizes Gantt charts to summarize status of all active procurement initiatives. Dynamic cycle-time tracking on all projects and subprojects drives project execution and stimulates fastpaced growth and development in global strategic procurement organizations.
Standardize, integrate and automate procurement projects imanage equips procurement teams with a comprehensive project management platform that includes category-specific project templates, dynamic dashboards, and visual project status reporting. Key Benefits: Dynamic Project Tracking Informative Financial Reporting Effective Project Compliance imanage Improved collaboration Competent Project Procurement Processes Integration Standardized core processes with sharing of best practices Assurance that category-specific rules and templates are utilized consistently Real time tracking of assigned projects at task and phase level Analysis of actual versus estimated project timelines & costs Increased visibility among stakeholders, leading to highly effective collaboration Seamless dataflow with the Zycus Source-to-Pay Suite
Customer Experience with imanage A major global Internet carrier with decentralized processes was looking for a technology solution to standardize and connect procurement projects across the globe. Zycus imanage equipped the team with abilities to standardize projects for all sourcing activities, creating 100% visibility into workloads at various business units. By effectively integrating all strategic sourcing processes, the software provided a capacity to track procurement cycle times for all types of requests. It also provided enhanced weekly reports to company top management, highlighting work accomplished by sourcing teams. The customer found the software easy to adopt and has initiated some 1,200+ projects and 20+ multi-step project templates within the first two months of implementation, thus providing a strong tailwind for its organizational transformation. Zycus Source-to-Pay Solutions isave Auto Class ianalyze icost einvoicing Procureto-Pay Financial Savings imanage irequest One View Spend Analysis esourcing isource eprocurement S u p p l ie r P r o l a t Supplier Contract iperform icontract Authoring isupplier icontract Repository
About Zycus Zycus is a leading global provider of complete Source-to-Pay suite of procurement performance solutions. Our comprehensive product portfolio includes applications for both the strategic and the operational aspects of procurement - eprocurement, einvoicing, Spend Analysis, esourcing, Contract, Supplier and Financial Savings. Our spirit of innovation and our passion to help procurement create greater business impact are reflected among the hundreds of procurement solution deployments that we have undertaken over the years. We are proud to have as our clients, some of the best-of-breed companies across verticals like Manufacturing, Automotives, Banking and Finance, Oil and Gas, Food Processing, Electronics, Telecommunications, Chemicals, Health and Pharma, Education and more. Disclaimer The content provided in this product brochure is intended solely for general business information purposes, the statements related to Zycus product desription in this document are representative in nature and currently being part of Zycus' products deployable on infrastructure managed by it. These features are subject to modification/change, if any, over a period of time due to Zycus' continuous process of evolving its products and technologies thereof which is the essence of SAAS deployable products. Zycus reserves the right to make changes without further notice to any products to improve reliability, function, or design. You acknowledge that no promise, representation, warranty or undertaking has been made or given by Zycus in relation to the profitability of or any other consequences or benefits to be obtained by relying on such Zycus product brochures.