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
Supplier Search
Collection, validation and presentation of supplier data using a detailed questionnaire. The addition of customer or industry specific criteria to supplement supplier data and allow selection of suppliers based on industry standards or customer specific requirements for contracts and tenders. Achilles prequalification services allow for compliance with European Procurement Legislation by facilitating a fair, open and transparent means of selecting suppliers for potential business opportunities.
Performance Assessment
Performance Assessment benchmarking enables supply chain relationship management and supports decisions leading to supplier rationalisation.
Supplier Tracking
This service allows users to configure their own list of suppliers to monitor or 'track' and choose the events that cause a status change notification to occur, and the frequency with which the buyer wishes to receive notifications.
Supplier 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 the first stage of establishing a single common prequalification system covering global supplier community for each Achilles key sector.
Further details on these closely related Prequalification schemes, can be obtained by hovering or clicking on 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.
Embrace a fully managed auctions service, including selecting the right contracts, tender development, auction strategies, event management, knowledge transfer and the use of a specialised event centre.
We provide full training, advice and comprehensive support for every qualified supplier you invite to tender, ensuring they 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.
Supplier Discovery
For existing Achilles purchasing customers we have a service that helps to find new suppliers using our unparalleled combination of supplier data and industry expertise. This service is provided free of charge.
Supply Market Reports
Achilles is introducing a new service for buyers enabling them to have access to leading reports on a particular commodity including:
Suppliers or contractors globally; Market share, trends and ownership; Technical innovations and challenges; Qualifications and capabilities of key providers.
Benchmarking Services
This service offers Achilles clients, large or small, a practical way to get better value from their projects.
This strategic assessment tool helps clients achieve best value from their assets. It provides a framework for clients to review what they are doing and how they are doing it, and then develop a programme of improvement in line with their own business plans.
The service includes a comprehensive, but intuitive toolkit that helps clients to prepare an improvement programme relevant to their business. It also offers access to a network of support facilities and allows online sharing good practice information, measure their performance and benchmark themselves against other organisations.
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.
Official Notice
Provides simple and intuitive menu of all procedure types, including non-OJEU formats. Fully searchable centralised database.
This online service from Achilles uses the most recent standard notices. It allows you to compile notices online and submit them to the Official Journal of the European Union from your desktop. You can also obtain access to details of published EC contracts, which Achilles download every night from the Official Journal.
It has been developed with assistance from the Official Journal and contains the correct standard notices. The system is designed to assist regulated purchasers to operate effectively within EC procurement rules. The system is web-based and does not require any software installation. Once registered, you are issued with a username and password, allowing for total security.
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.