AMS bundles more efficiently European purchasing consortium works with the platform of Trade2B - Lebensmittelzeitung

AMS bundles more efficiently

European purchasing consortium works with the platform of Trade2B / Björn Weber

LZ|NET. The European purchasing consortium AMS, which is residing by Ahold, wants to create more transparency and efficiency through the internet platform of Trade2B . Purchasing auctions are still carried out with WWRE.

The purchasing consortium AMS is working with the German-originating internet platform of Trade2B for a short time now. The aim is to pool the demands more efficiently and manage the supplier data better. "Using the Sourcing solutions of Trade2B, AMS improves its efficiency and it provides more value to the retail members and suppliers ", says AMS director Ben Nordermann.

The Groceries-Retail-Group Ahold (Netherlands), Dansk Supermarket (Denmark), Caprabo (Spain), ICA (Sweden), Jerónimo Martins (Portugal), Kesko (Finland), Morrison (Great Britain) und Superquinn (Ireland) purchase trade brands conjointly. Presently the German Edeka is still one of the member. However after the acquisition of the Spar Handels AG, Edeka plans to change still this summer to the European purchasing center Agenor of the consortium Alidis (Eroski und Intermarché).

More efficient workflow

With the internet platform of Trade2B, AMS wants to uniformly manage and document the supplier biddings as well as the demands of its members. At the same time the solution administers the workflow and the internal decision processes. Furthermore it allows to analyse transactions that date back. In the future AMS plans to source captive goods (MRO) for its members via the platform in the form a catalog. For its internet auctions where the suppliers have to underbid each other in terms of price, AMS does not use the Trade2B solution. For these auctions the “Euroshoppers” keep using the platform WWRE, which by now has merged with GNX. Besides Wal-Mart almost all large retail-corporations from Europe and the U.S. belong to the new platform.

The auction solution of Trade2B was short listed by GNX since its members (among which are Carrefour, Metro und KarstadtQuelle) were not satisfied anymore with the Oracle software. However, GNX decided for the solution of Emtoris, which will also be offered to the WWRE members.
2. Juni 2005