Port Augusta City Council (Port Augusta, SA)
"StraightBUY has eliminated the manual requisitioning process currently used for many of Council purchases. The reduced workload as result of the use of StraightBUY has freed-up purchasing staff to focus their attention on strategic purchasing and supplier relationships resulting in improved purchasing decisions.
Mr Michael Dunemann, Director - Financial and Information Services

Mildura Rural City Council (Mildura, Vic)
"Online purchasing with StraightBUY has significantly streamlined the time and expense taken by staff to source and purchase goods, and now enables the Purchasing Administration to concentrate on strategy and added value in overall council spending. Purchasing is simply now a better job in which relationships are built across the organisation that promotes decentrailised empowerment methods along centralised controls, strategy and business rules".

A real key has been the ability of the product to import financial commitments into the main Financial Management System that assists the Accounts Payable function, and reporting systems to management. It has also been positively received by local suppliers and has significantly reduced the time taken for councils purchasing cycle to be completed. StraightBUY has also been well received by various audit companies who examine our Council's purchasing methods periodically."
Mr Tony McCarthy, Central Purchasing Officer, Corporate Procurement

City of Whittlesea (Melbourne, Vic)
City of Whittlesea Chief Executive Officer, Graeme Brennan said that the City of Whittlesea had evaluated its current purchasing processes and saw value in online purchasing.

"We have been looking for an e-procurement solution following an analysis of our purchasing process that revealed a per order processing cost of $56 and an ability to reduce this transaction cost by 26% through the use of electronic purchasing. The opportunity to pilot the StraightBUY product and work with Strategic Ecommerce and our corporate software supplier Civica to continue to develop the product and the integration with our financials is welcomed" Mr Brennan said.
Mr Graeme Brennan, Chief Executive Officer

Wattle Range Council (Millicent, SA)
“StraightBUY has the potential for significant cost savings to Council through time savings and better, more accessible purchasing decisions, coupled with improved internal control of the purchasing process. Council staff were very impressed with the simplicity of use and advanced, integrated features of the system”.
Mr Frank Brennan, Chief Executive Officer

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