Basware is revolutionizing the shopping experience by seamlessly merging Basware Marketplace and Basware Purchase. In this blog, we will explore how Basware's integrated shopping experience can transform your organization's purchasing process and deliver significant benefits.
Effortless Shopping, Compliant Buying:
Imagine empowering your employees with a purchasing tool that allows them to easily buy pre-approved products, eliminating the hassle of maverick spending and wasteful expenses. Basware's new intuitive interface guides employees to make purchases from preferred suppliers, ensuring alignment with your organization's processes and contractual policies. From punchouts and catalogs to free text forms, all purchase types are encompassed within Basware's compliant and policy-led buying approach, streamlining the purchasing process like never before.
The Power of Integration:
Basware's Integrated Shopping Experience is more than just an upgrade; it offers a unified platform to access multiple items from different channels in one location. Hosted catalogs, punchouts, and free text forms become easily accessible through a single search, consolidating all purchases in one shopping cart and environment. This integration enhances spend management capabilities, allowing you to create specific views for different user roles, ensuring access only to approved purchase sources.
Smart Search for Enhanced Buyer Experience:
Searching for products and services can be time-consuming and frustrating. Basware addresses this issue with its new Smart Search functionality, simplifying the user journey by presenting all relevant options in a single set of search results. Whether it's within catalogs, punchout items, or free text forms, Smart Search guides users to their desired items seamlessly.
Savings and Improved KPIs:
Switching to Basware's Integrated Shopping Experience can lead to significant time and cost savings. For instance, a Basware customer with 10,000 annual purchases can save up to 830 hours across their organization. Apart from these tangible benefits, your organization's KPIs will also experience positive growth. Some key performance indicators that are likely to improve include user adoption, process efficiency and automation savings, maverick spend management, controlled purchasing, corporate social responsibility, and time and resource management.
The Path Forward for Existing Customers:
If you're an existing Basware customer, taking advantage of the Integrated Shopping Experience and upcoming purchasing innovations is highly recommended. By making the switch, your organization can unlock a world of benefits, from smoother and faster purchasing processes to improved data capture and automated approval workflows. Contact your Account Manager or Customer Success Manager today to plan your transition and embrace the future of procurement.
If you are not sure who your Account Manager or Customer Success Manager is, please contact Robert Wilson in Customer Marketing, and we'll be happy to help you.
