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The optimal route for your procurement processes
Why you need Unite in your procurement passenger seat
Knowing where your shipments are, their origin, destination and arrival time is mission-critical. But with rising fuel and labour costs, and customers demanding speedy delivery and greater transparency, your business needs to adapt, and fast.
A smooth transformation requires robust contingency planning, agile working practices, and innovative procurement solutions, like Unite! Unite takes care of your indirect spend with a wide assortment that can be integrated into your e-procurement system. And our single creditor solution streamlines your processes, helping keep costs down.
Why transport and logistics companies are switching to Unite
More for your money
Beat your budget and reduce administration costs thanks to smart saving features like bulk purchasing options for the quantities you need, automated processes, less maverick buying and the ease of just one creditor.
Transparency across your supply chain
Streamline your catalogues and orders to build a resilient supply chain that aligns with your ESG objectives. And meet regulations and uphold standards in the process.
Process efficiency made easy
Benefit from a flexible and scalable centralised procurement solution that integrates with ease and works across every department and location – on the road and in the office. Empower your people while staying in control and impacting your spend.
All the assortment you need
From strategic commodities to tail spend, our diverse assortment is designed to meet your industry’s needs. And our vetted supplier network means quality assurance is built right in.
The large portfolio of products on offer has reduced maverick buying and means we don’t need to add any new suppliers to our system.
Features to make you feel better
So many suppliers, just one vendor
With its integrated marketplace and Network supplier catalogues added, Unite gives you a wide product choice from suppliers you can trust, including local businesses. It’s compliant purchasing in a single-vendor solution.
Harmonious catalogue hosting
You can bring all your framework agreements and supplier catalogues together in one place, helping you benchmark prices, negotiate contracts and get the best deals for your business.
Access for everyone
You can connect all your locations to the same procurement solution, either through your ERP system or the web. It makes access simple, whether your people are on the road, in the office or working from home.
Smart Basket for the best choice
Our powerful basket optimisation tool offers up combos of best price, delivery time and number of deliveries, so you can always choose wisely.
One creditor, no compromise
No matter how many of our pre-vetted suppliers your people shop from, you only deal with one, Unite. That means flexible tax-compliant payment options and an efficient P2P process.
Search results to suit your strategy
Cross-catalogue search, smart filters and own views help people find what they need – and what you want them to find – while keeping on top of sustainability and meeting your metrics.
Customer success stories
Streamlining LGI’s procurement process: a leap in efficiency
Efficient procurement is vital in logistics. LGI, a leader with 5,000 employees, faced challenges like long lead times and high costs. Unite’s solutions helped LGI unify processes and streamline purchase-to-pay (P2P) and indirect procurement operations.
How Unite helped Zalando optimise its indirect procurement
Zalando became Europe's leading fashion platform through a digital business model with lean processes and speed. For efficient indirect purchasing, it selected Unite to digitally integrate diverse procurement flows and implement an internationally standardized purchasing solution.
Make the connection – your system, our solution
Integrate Unite with your system using Punchout and API
Want to use your own ERP or e-procurement system and still benefit from a fully electronic and uniform purchasing process with Unite? You can! Using Punchout OCI or cXML, and API, Unite can connect to over 40 systems. What’s more, you can build your supplier network and take it with you if you switch.
No procurement system? No problem. You can make the most of Unite using our web-based option.
Don’t get lost online. Find it right here at Unite.
With over 50 million items from 1,500 suppliers, you’ll find everything you need to get your transport and logistics business on the road to success, including:
Computers & accessories
Electronics
Occupational safety
Machinery and tools
Get started in just two minutes
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