Periscope’s customers include many large, complex organizations serious about effectively managing their procurement processes. From local sanitation districts to some of America’s largest states and agencies, each customer comes with its own business, policy and technological requirements, as well as its own history, challenges and opportunities to be explored.

Every customer’s situation is unique, but we’ve discovered some commonalities among many organizations’ procurement system needs. Periscope helps our customers:

• automate procure-to-pay process;
• effectively manage their supplier community;
• formalize and control their solicitation process for higher-dollar purchases; and
• define and enforce contract spending levels.

How we go about meeting these needs is individually customized, but the results are the same, time and time again – greater efficiency and cost savings through process improvement.

When the Alaska Department of Transportation and Public Facilities decided to eliminate its paper-dependent purchasing processes, it partnered with Periscope to implement BuySpeed™, our exclusive web-based eProcurement system. The Periscope team, utilizing BuySpeed™, reworked the department’s procurement process so that it is now streamlined, integrated with maintenance management systems, and available to hundreds of department staff – even to crews on vessels traveling the waters of the Alaska Marine Highway System. The department, once burdened with inefficiencies, data errors, a purchasing backlog and ineffective vendor management, now runs like a well-oiled machine. Three vendor databases, totaling 9,000 records, were cleaned up and consolidated into 3,000, and vendors now register and respond to bids online. Additionally, requisition-processing time has been reduced by more than half, with $75,000 in salary savings gained as a result.

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