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Another great productivity tool!

Enterprise is pleased to offer its point-of-sale customers BuyMetrics®, personal productivity software for commodity lumber and panel buyers. This software allows efficient communication with chosen vendors, quick response to market turns, and tools for analysis which enable buyers to fine-tune their purchasing strategy and spend less time on administrative chores.

BuyMetrics is Internet-based. There is no software to install or hardware to buy. The application is branded with your company identity, customized to your specifications, and linked seamlessly to your Enterprise point-of-sale system. BuyMetrics is fast and secure.

BuyMetrics is not an exchange or an e-market; it is buyer-controlled software used to communicate with chosen vendors. Your vendors will simply need an e-mail address and Web browser – no passwords, user accounts, or special software.

Use BuyMetrics to generate requests-for-quotes (RFQs), send POs, and receive confirmations from your vendors. Gather quotes from secondary suppliers you normally wouldn’t have time to contact. Instantly compare offerings against established metrics, such as Random Lengths. BuyMetrics supports counteroffers, mixed tallies and partial loads, forward buying, and the comparison of spot to program buys or alternate species.

Use BuyMetrics as a powerful management tool. Purchase history and the metric correlations needed to analyze buying strategies are stored in an attribute-based data warehouse. The software also includes utilities to store and analyze all procurement data. If you have multiple locations and/or buyers, the software supports pool or block purchases and benchmarking net landed cost against predefined objectives or averages.

Because BuyMetrics is a collaborative tool for existing trading partners, it’s designed for maximum flexibility and accommodates a wide range of purchasing styles and market environments.

Additionally, BuyMetrics includes basic reporting functions such as buyer activity summary, shopping summary, purchase summary and vendor performance summary. Analytical functions include offered prices compared to external price reference, freight-normalized purchase prices compared to volumes and external price references, internal price discovery, and more...

Each buyer sets up and maintains a personal profile that includes vendor contacts, species/zone substitution lists, program (formula) buy definitions, destination freight adders, and password.

BuyMetrics is the tool your purchasing team has always wished for – automating routine processes, ensuring all information is considered, enabling meaningful comparisons, and capturing valuable purchase data. It helps buyers become more efficient and gives them better information as they make decisions. And, after all, smart purchasing is key to every dealer’s success.

Please e-mail us or give us a call at 1.800.569.6309 to learn how BuyMetrics works with your Enterprise system.