Supplier Management
Effectively support supplier discovery, prequalification, capabilities appraisal and performance assessment for deeper, more sustainable spend reductions. Businesses can access global supplier communities, achieve full process integration quickly and efficiently and establish enhanced supplier relationship management. Suppliers can prequalify and market their capabilities to global buying communities through a single gateway.
Prequalification Services
Prequalification services
Supplier Registration is the service enabling suppliers in to gain direct access to purchasers in the major organisations in the Utilities, Oil & Gas, Transport, Pharmaceutical, Construction and Public sectors.
Achilles Prequalification Services is run on behalf of buying organisations in all regions where Achilles has a presence. Over 1,000 major organisations around the world rely on Achilles to source and pre-qualify their current and potential suppliers of major products, services and works.
As a supplier this enables you to prequalify and market your company to an entire industry sector through a single questionnaire, providing you access to tender opportunities that match your capabilities.
Appraisal and Audit Services
Management of desk based or on-site audits of suppliers and making the results available to relevant users. Focused primarily on business critical contracts with a high emphasis on Safety, Health, Environment and Quality (SHEQ), this service provides an opportunity for service providers to demonstrate their capability through a single 'gateway'. Through a consultative process working with an independent assessor, culminating in an on-site visit, suppliers and contractors will provide a comprehensive insight into their business in these key areas.
Global Supplier Directory
The Achilles Global Supplier Directories contain high level, sector specific information on suppliers and contractors who are registered in the full Prequalification databases, made available across the Internet in the public domain. The directories form a single common view covering the global supplier community for each Achilles key sector.
As a supplier, currently subscribed to an Achilles Prequalification Service, you are entitled to automatic listing on the Global Directory for that sector, enabling you to promote your services and capabilities to the global buying community for that sector.
Further details on these closely related Prequalification schemes, can be obtained by hovering or clicking on the Prequalification Services on the left.
Tender Management
Streamline and optimise the handling of all tender activity from official notice (OJEU) to reverse auction, negotiation and contract renewal. Improve compliance levels and promote efficiency throughout the contract process with real-time collaboration between buyer and supplier community.
Electronic Auction
Achilles unique fully managed e-auction services adhere fully to EC procurement legislation.
Quick and easy to adopt, intuitive process with full process support as required, this service provides a proven method to quickly find the true value of goods and services.
Achilles provides full training, advice and comprehensive support for every qualified supplier invited to tender, ensuring you feel confident and positive about the process.
Information Services
Providing sourcing intelligence that enables companies to analyse product category spending, spot important pricing trends, access supplier market reports by industry sector, to improve operational efficiency, and measure organisational effectiveness.
Official Notice
Provides simple and intuitive menu of all procedure types, including non-OJEU formats. Fully searchable centralised database.
As a supplier, registered for an Achilles prequalification service, you can adopt Notice for Suppliers, offering your business the facility to be emailed, on a daily basis, relevant contract opportunities, that meet your business capabilities, as defined by your supplier profile.
Notice filters contract opportunities by matching them against the product and services categories that your business has registered within your prequalification questionnaire.
Professional Services
Our procurement consultancy network has extensive knowledge and experience in strategic sourcing and the deployment of the tools that support them via the internet.
Achilles offers online and onsite training services to enable you to quickly leverage advantage from our portfolio's extensive capabilities.
EC Legislation
Public and utility procurement throughout the European Community is subject to a complex set of regulations. The EC have one set of rules for the Utilities, and another set of rules for the Public Sector. Both sets of rules, however, lay down detailed procedures for awarding contracts that change as new legislation is introduced and court verdicts set new precedents for the interpretation of the existing legislation. Achilles has a specialist team dedicated to this area of procurement.
Training
Our online and on-site training quickly provides users with the ability to gain maximum advantage from Achilles portfolio. Our training division offers online and onsite, end user and train the trainer courses to develop enterprise experts who can lead internal training sessions throughout your enterprise.
Every organisation's training need is unique and our Corporate Training programmes are designed to meet your individual need in terms of Culture, Service practice and Learning experience.
Our programmes are designed to ensure effective knowledge transfer through the use of realistic business case scenarios. They are highly interactive, thereby reinforcing learning and providing a practical basis for the transfer of new knowledge into the workplace.