Procurement solutions
Our supply chain processes and systems help us to work with
suppliers more effectively through:
- Standardisation: common policies, practices
and methodologies create a simpler way for suppliers to do business
with us
- Efficiency: enhancing the Group’s
sourcing processes, from tendering through to transaction and
payments
- Transparency: making the link clearer between
supplier performance and awarding new business
Online tool: Emptoris
Our web-based procurement solution, Emptoris, is an efficient
way for our suppliers to engage with us and manage our
relationship. Suppliers doing business with us might need to use
Emptoris for online sourcing, contract management and performance
management events. If so, your category team will contact you to
set you up on the system. Before entering the Emptoris site please
make sure that you have read and understood the Terms and
Conditions that governs the use of the site.
Procurement solutions website (Emptoris)
Requisition-to Pay (R2P) strategy
We trade with thousands of suppliers every year, both globally
and locally. This translates into millions of documents in the
procurement process, so it is imperative that these documents flow
efficiently. This ensures materials and services are in the right
place at the right time and at the agreed price or rate, enabling
us to pay our suppliers on time. We have been using the Quadrem
e-Marketplace since 2001 and many of suppliers now trade through
this tool. Electronic trading has become entrenched in
business processes of all leading global companies in many
industries, so this is not unique to us.
In 2009, we decided to migrate all suppliers to the Quadrem
e-Marketplace in phases, starting with goods and materials
suppliers. In the future, all suppliers will be required to trade
electronically via the Quadrem e-Market Portal.
Our aim is to have a paperless, high integrity process in place
allowing:
- All requisitions for spot purchases to be electronic via
Quadrem Source Centre
- All orders to be placed electronically through Quadrem Supply
Centre or through full electronic systems integration where
appropriate
- The entire R2P cycle to be electronic, including goods receipt
notifications (e-GRNs), invoices (e-Invoicing) and electronic
remittances advices
- Processes to enable and support the small, medium-sized and
local suppliers to be put in place
We are introducing this transition in phases and contacting
suppliers in turn to invite them to join the Quadrem e-Marketplace.
Priority is given to suppliers based on criteria, such as the
annual transaction volume and their strategic importance to us.
When we contact a supplier, we will arrange a mutually agreeable
process and timing for the transition. In the future, e-Trading
through Quadrem will be a firm business requirement and included in
all contracts.
If you have any enquiries, please email us at
supplychain@angloamerican.co.uk
Become a supplier
If you are interested in becoming one of our suppliers, please
register your details with us on our
Procurement
solutions website and select the ‘Register
Organization’ tab at the top right-hand corner of the
page.