BNP Paribas uses tools as levers in its purchasing strategy.

Rationalize all the purchasing processes by :

• Automating treatments (E-procurement, reimbursement of travel expenses):

Since 2002, an e-procurement solution covering 60% of expenses allows local entities to place each kind of order (catalogue, electronic form, fax, email …). The number of connected suppliers is steadily increasing, thus BNP Paribas colleagues can find all the services they day-to-day need.

Ulysse, an expense account management solution is today used by 34 000 persons on three continents and ten countries.

• Setting up inventory tools:

The deployment of inventory solutions on financial flows, real-estate leases and, soon, the management of telecommunications, contributes to a better adequacy between the offer of service proposed internally and the real needs and a better management of networks.

Contribute to improve the expenses of the Group:

• By setting up a Purchasing Datawarehouse for the analysis of the expenses of the Group :

ITP - Supplier Relationship Management consolidates the data stemming from supplier accounting of the main entities of the Group representing 90% of the expenses. ITP - SRM restores to the Executive management of the Group, to the Department of the Core businesses and to the entities:

• A transverse vision of the external expenses by following the reference base expenses (the "Cube ");
• A vision of savings realized by ITP - SRM  

• By giving dynamic restorations

Dashboards are given to the entities of the Group so that they can have a relative or proportional vision of their expenses, compared with reference indicators.

• By integrating the new entities of the Group

Support in "Due Diligence" is ensured and a Purchasing Diagnosis of the external expenses is realized.

In its mission of optimization of the processes, ITP - SRM studies, recommends and sometimes deploys tools linked to the purchases which contribute in:

• The rationalization of the supply channels / management / accounting / repayment;

• The reliability of inventory tools (network or IT licenses).

The following are the tools linked to the already set up purchases :

• Sourcing-Contract Management : transactional platform purchasing covering the supplier relation, and the contractualization (to see: Suppliers / Listing)
• Electronic orders : e-procurement and specific tools of on-line orders; (see: supplier / e-procurement)
• Management of reimbursement of travel expenses : software deployed in a dozen countries
• Accounting of invoices : software of Supplier accounting in most of the entities of the Group;
• Asset management : management of real-estate network, Market Data licences;

This non restrictive list follows the evolution of needs and organizations of BNP Paribas.