Companies that carry out considerable purchasing operations have obtained important savings and improvements in processes by implementing electronic purchases solutions. This allow them to buy better by: causing systematic competition between their suppliers, centralizing their purchases, carrying out high volume purchases considering the total of their purchases for a period, ordering the process to require in all the cases 3 quotes for each purchase, and if needed, a justification when products of greater price are bought. Also allows the to order and to centralize all the information related to their suppliers, product assortment ,price lists, and even data of their products and personnel, etc.

The benefits of a project of this size are associate to the benefits that are obtained by the implementation of different strategies from cost reduction and processes improvements that hit mainly in the prices by the following elements:
 

	Purchases centralization and yearly purchases consolidation
	Increased number of suppliers to negotiate
	Competition among suppliers
	Inventory optimization
	Reduction of the personnel oriented to tasks subject to automation
	Orientation to tasks of added value for purchasing area
	Suppliers and Products Cataloguing

Web based platform where the buyers organize their communication with suppliers, from the process of requisition and authorization, to the process of communication with the supplier, confirmation of warehouse, payment notification and logistics management.

The system counts uses the data base of the suppliers of a company, as well as a catalogue of products, and from each of these information in fields, or attached archives, allowing buyers to carry out its operations in relation to the supplier in an orderly fashion.

The system possess several user profiles involved in the purchasing process, from the requester, the buyer, the authorizer, the store clerk, among others, to participate. Everyone will be carrying on their work digitally and with reachable information of the degree of advance of this process.

The platform includes elements to request to several suppliers a quote of the product of its interest and on the other hand, to ask alternative suppliers for information of its products to take it in account in purchases. It also has complementary module that allow to estimate import costs, freight and tariffs, and to be able to make comparisons in equality conditions.

The system includes all the communication with the supplier, from electronic purchase order (PO) generation, eliminating generation errors, therefore giving certainty to the supplier of the required products, until the inclusion same conversations and explanations related to the PO. The companies that have implemented e-procurement have obtained several benefits, on one hand by cost reduction of processing while obtaining significant savings and improving noticeably their processes.