HPS LightTouch™ ensures that only approved products can be purchased from approved suppliers,
encouraging suppliers to fulfil orders accurately, timely and cost-effectively;
minimising purchasing errors;
ensuring the highest quality of supplier support.
The purchasing system maintains the following principles:
Suppliers may only supply goods in categories for which they have been approved. This avoids time
wasted attending to speculative prospecting of no interest to your company.
Product details can be entered and maintained by staff or by the suppliers themselves.
The raising of purchase requests is enforced for products above a certain value.
Purchases of services are handled the same as for products.
HPS LightTouch™ supports both formal purchasing (including a purchase request methodology) and
out-of-pocket expenses, more ad-hoc in nature. The extent to which each is employed, will be governed by
company procedures. However, either or both scheme types can be implemented and managed on-line in a
paperless way.
