Press
Release: Melbourne. June 28, 2002
Strategic Ecommerce , an Australian e-procurement software
specialist, has signed a contract with the Municipals Association
of Victoria to provide licenses of its online purchasing software,
StraightBUY to all Victorian councils.
The first stage of the project involves
the integration of StraightBUY into three local government
finance packages during a pilot study phase due for completion
in October. Following the pilot study the software will then
be licensed to all Victorian councils. The pilot councils
are the City of Whittlesea, the City of Mildura and Northern
Grampians Shire Council.
Municipals Association of Victoria Online
Manager, John Hennessy said that in order to ensure that the
right solution was chosen, a consultative approach was taken
with councils.
"The Municipals Association went through
an extensive process of involving councils in defining the
needs of the sector and then seeking market input to meet
the specification. Strategic Ecommerce emerged as the preferred
solution to meet the needs of local government and we are
confident that the pilot process will be successful,"
Mr Hennessy said.
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.
As part of the Victorian local government
project Strategic Ecommerce will also be offering its StraightSELL
online catalogue product to suppliers.
Strategic Ecommerce Chief Executive Officer,
Mr Andrew Sendy said suppliers to Councils could also expect
to benefit from the project.
"Suppliers to Victorian councils can
use any standards based online catalogue to trade with councils
such as Strategic Ecommerce's catalogue product, StraightSELL,
allows suppliers to automate the process of receiving orders,
saving time and money" Mr Sendy said.
For further information contact:
Mr
Andrew Sendy
Chief Executive Officer
Strategic Ecommerce
Ph: +61 8 1300 136 456
Fax: +61 8 8152 0626
Mr John Hennessy
Online Manager
Municipals Association of Victoria
Ph: +61 3 9667 5555
Fax: +61 3 9667 5550
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