Automated Supply Chain

The days of filling out extensive paper work and the hours needed to process purchase orders, requisitions and payments to purchase products are, thankfully, a distant memory. But some schools within a district, or even departments with a single school, may continue to face challenges with procurement due to variations in operating systems. These discrepancies can cause purchasing history, inventory, supplier catalogues and pricing information to be in different locations or in a format that isn’t easily accessible to everyone making purchasing decisions.

Virtucom’s Automated Supply Chain System helps synchronize and coordinate purchasing information and activities. We’ll ensure that the correct amount of hardware, software, accessories and supplies are in the right place at the right time. Implementing our supply chain system will minimize your overstocks, eliminate redundant spending, and increase efficiencies in responding to supply chain events.

E-Procurement

Electronic commerce provides numerous benefits, such as reducing manual efforts and associated human errors, minimizing the paper trail, and realizing the overall benefits of an automated supply chain. An E-Procurement system can help your school realize savings, but only if it is appropriately integrated with supplier systems.

Virtucom’s eCommerce solution, V-Central, is a complete purchasing cycle automation solution that is designed to provide a fast, resourceful, and effective web-based service that automates key business processes and transactions, providing total management control over the complete purchasing cycle.

Upon request, Virtucom will create a secured login ID and password on V-Central. This enables the customer to check for product specifications, product availability of over one million different products, along with special discounted pricing.

Key Features

• Catalog and product management of over 1,000,000 SKU’s
• Real-time pricing and availability
• Customer management
• Quoting management
• E-commerce store
• Administrative management
• Purchase order management
• Report generation
• Back-office integration
• Contract and configuration imports
• Personal dashboard

Additional Features

• Additional public and private stores
• Assisted look and feel “skinning” of stores
• Shopping engine export
• Authorization workflow on store/PAS (Purchase Approval System)
• Custom supplier integration
• XML connectivity and support
• Store “punchout” to end customer procurement systems
• Custom domain name option
• Automated XML order notification

Virtucom’s Dedicated Team

When working with Virtucom your school will be assigned a Project Team Leader to service your account. Our staff of professionals will manage your larger IT Infrastructure programs and/or oversee day-to-day operations like ordering products.

To speak directly with your Sales Manager about your procurement needs, please call 800.890.2611. Or, click here for more information on the products that we offer.