Procurement

Procurement resource optimization  New demands on procurement performance with simultaneously reduced resources have been the norm for  number of years now. Organizations under extreme competitive pressure have successfully outlined ways to reduce the number of suppliers and/or costs to manage procurement as well as optimize supplier qualification.

Endress+Hauser works with you to match your procurement relationship objectives. Along with this is the matching of your instrumentation performance philosophy with the best fit form of Endress+Hauser technology.

	Transactional relationship: optimum price with minimal support requirements
	Consultative relationship: application and industry know-how consultation to optimize product selection and implementation
	Partnership: engagement to continuously improve TCO and lifecycle management

Matching your procurement cost - improvement initiatives Depending on your business requirements you may work with a defined electronic catalog or on-line with an Endress+Hauser product configurator.

The product configurator allows you to arbitrarily compose instrument features for your requirements.

The system has a dynamic display of price and delivery time corresponding to your product basket

definition. Some e-procurement implementation examples:

	P card support (i.e. AMEX)
	Support of third-party and internal e-procurement implementations. Transaction data from your system can be transmitted via email, web-EDI, XML
	Direct ERP- -ERP integration of the material handling systems (i.e. SAP- -SAP)

Many conventional, manual procurement processes can be made substantially faster and more efficient with the support of electronic purchasing solutions. Endress+Hauser is a registered and active supplier within the most successful electronic market places such as cc-hubwoo. The top 10 chemical companies already employ this venue for procurement.

The demands on instrumentation in modern chemical and renewable fuels operations are high. Resistant materials, flexible instrumentation techniques, simple commissioning, a high degree of instrument  availability, a long serviceable life are needed. Endress+Hauser offers you a wide range of "best fit" measurement technologies to address these needs.

Endress+Hauser has employed technology platforms for many years to reduce costs and give our customers advantages such as, simpler commissioning, uniform operator interfaces and common

spare parts programs.