What is eProcurement ?

BNP Paribas gives to its employees an electronic tool allowing them to place supply orders to the suppliers of the group.

This tool allows automating the necessary approval circuit before the sending of the order to the supplier, who does not thus have to question its validity.

The orders are generally based on an electronic catalogue – which gives the user to the feeling of an eCommerce site – but there are other means at his/her disposal to send requests in free text (which replaces the fax or the e-mail for example), or the direct connection in the Internet site of the supplier (technology « round trip»).

The deployment of eProcurement

To date the eProcurement tool is deployed on France , Switzerland , Luxemburg , England and the United States . Tomorrow, every BNP Paribas employee could use the application without necessity of preliminary setting.

This will allow every employee of the BNP Paribas group to order the products which he needs with the connected suppliers.

What participation of the suppliers?

Provision of electronic catalogues

According to the nature of the products which you propose and the strategies decided by BNP Paribas, suppliers may be requested to provide an electronic catalogue.

This catalogue is a big help for the users because it accompanies them in the act of buying. It also eliminates any error in the ordering (for example the reference of an article, or a current price on a contract).

Receipt of the orders

The eProcurement tool can send orders to the suppliers by various channels (email, fax).

The simplest and the most user-friendly is the sending on an internet platform named "marketplace" on which the supplier validates the orders. This validation is registered in eProcurement and is confirmed to the employee, which allows the employee monitoring and an additional comfort.

What are the advantages for you?

The adoption of such a technology allows the supplier to make the trade agreements which he has with BNP Paribas more visible and increases access for the employees of the group.

Moreover, this allows the supplier to standardize and to improve the processes of supply by having the assurance that the order was validated beforehand and by easily keeping the employee informed of the status of its order.

The participation of the suppliers in this mode of functioning differentiates suppliers for the teams in charge of business connections to BNP Paribas and prepares for the generalization of the e-commerce.