Secure, Integrated Platform
- Highest level of security using the latest SSL (secure socket layer encryption) and role-based user security model
- Integration with other modules in the eBreviate eSourcing suite
- Ability to integrate with existing corporate systems, including ERP, MRP and CRM applications, through defined APIs and data feeds
- Secure partitioning of event data to support units in a decentralized organization
- Customized screens that incorporate customer branding and preference
Flexible, Template-Driven Setup
- Intuitive, template-driven interface facilitates fast auction builds
- Total cost approach to collect and evaluate price and non-price bid components
- Item-level, event-specific and supplier-specific settings allow for any number of strategic auction setups, including nested events
- Multi-currency bidding options, multi-language capability, and custom time zone display for global use
Streamlined Event Management
- Real-time environment ensures latest bids and reports are instantaneously visible
- Robust two-way communication during auction via instant messaging that is logged and archived for later retrieval
- Modifications to bid rules, pause capability, and control over supplier access during an event give buyers time to strategize and evaluate an auction's progress
Sophisticated Analysis
- Powerful analytic tools to monitor and measure auction results, including real-time graphs and reports, total cost and savings calculations, and bid optimization
- Advanced weighting capability to automatically improve or penalize a supplier's bids based on predetermined factors
- Administrative level management and reporting on user activity and results
- Enhanced bidder analytics allow bidders to determine standing versus other bids
