Procurement Manager

Marketing campaigns are often complex processes, involving the procurement of external goods and services. That procurement involves extensive administration, communication, evaluation and selection of options, based on specifications given and quotations received.

marketingunity Procurement Manager provides an established, repeatable process for these tasks that delivers consistent speed, efficiency, cost savings, and control.

Even if procurement needs to be managed by non-specialist users, marketingunity's dynamic templates guide the user through the process in easy stages, allowing them to provide potential suppliers with comprehensive specifications as a prerequisite to obtaining reliable, best-value quotations.

• Marketingunity minimises communication delays. Marketingunity’s workflow also ensures that each job is routed to the right person, at the right time.
• Marketingunity Templates provide a standardised specification process – Templates act as checklists, which ensure that expert and novice users alike provide all the information needed to accurately describe the products in question, so suppliers can provide accurate quotes.
• It’s easy to kick off new or repeat enquiries online - they can be generated from templates, ‘favourite lists’, or previous enquiries, making it quick and simple to get updated quotes.
• Instant quotations can be automatically generated for many products, to gain budgetary signoff and progress the sourcing process without delay.
• Artwork can be submitted online and PDF proofs shown to customers for checking and approval. This avoids potentially costly mistakes.
• Online job tracking keeps customers informed. This lets all involved get on with the job, instead of stopping to talk about it.

Procurement managers

Many people may still think your role is just about tying suppliers down to strict contracts and rock-bottom prices. You know it’s much more than that - you also need an increasingly wide range of skills, from understanding the needs of your internal or external customers, to keeping abreast of technology, industry trends and regulations.

Corporations and not-for-profit organisations

They say ‘if you can’t measure it you can’t manage it’, and you need to do both. Your company may have an e-procurement solution, but it probably can’t handle bespoke items like marketing collateral.

That means you need a central place to keep data and transaction history, which supports analysis and management reporting. And you probably also need a formal process for communicating with both your internal customers and suppliers.

Marketingunity has both, and they were designed with input from people just like you, to make your role easier. Please ask us how!

Print management companies

Just like your corporate counterparts, you are a professional buyer, and like them, your role is increasingly demanding, but you also have additional challenges:

- managing procurement for multiple clients, from a wide range of industries.
- Your company’s revenue only comes from procurement, so you work in a profit centre.
- Your customers can go away if they’re not happy, so you need sales skills too.

Technology can help, by cutting probably 20% off direct costs and 40% off administration overheads. Please call us and ask how!

Agencies and Marketing Service Providers

Your role is probably wider still than Print Management companies, because you have all their challenges, but across all types of media.

They probably have specialist technology to help them too, whereas you probably have to rely on spreadsheets. Your role may also be threatened by the increasing trend towards decoupling.

We’d love to help you redress that balance. Call us today.