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Gain visibility and reduce operational spend by moving to a centralized workflow and away from manual labor, paper and slow approvals.

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Why Bellwether

Bellwether makes it easy to stay on top of your budget, reduce maverick spending, and make your purchase process much more effective and efficient.

Control Company Spending

Eradicate maverick purchasing by defining and automating company approval levels. Create transparency into corporate spending at all levels and every stage.

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Automate Workflows

Bellwether creates a seamless process by automating workflows and tasks. Customizing workflows to suit your business is simple and will free up precious time.

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Customize Reporting

Gain a strategic understanding of your purchasing process. Analyze trends, track supplier contacts and manage your budgets and the health of your supply chain.

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“The single Bellwether procurement and inventory management software solved our needs perfectly.”

“We saved Mainstream Fiber Networks over $1200 a month with our streamlined software solution.”

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How it Works

Personalized Procurement to Fit You

Bellwether Software personalizes your solution. Whether you need a simple, faster and more accurate way to manage and control spend or a full-blown robust purchasing solution, we have you covered.

Meet Zoe

Still, using a paper-based system to manage procurement? Bellwether Purchasing Management (BPM) is built for companies that don’t need 1001 features – Zoe simply needs a faster and more accurate way to manage and control spend in her organisation.

Meet Bob

Has your team outgrown your procurement software? Purchasing Management Extra (EPMX) replaces your outdated software overnight. It’s a powerful system built for teams that need a complete cloud Purchasing suite full of features and functionality.

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How We Make procurement Effortless

Bellwether brings all your purchasing and inventory needs together under one roof. Bring your team together by turning data into strategies that move the needle. No more spreadsheets, slow approvals or paper.

Reliable Requisitions

Bellwether automates the requisition process and empowers your team with the insights needed to make business decisions quickly. Supports paper and paperless requisitioning. Requisition in free-form mode or from online catalogs.

Review of requisitions online
Automatic routing of Requisitions
Easy conversion of requisitions into RFQs or POs
Historical reporting with PDF and Excel

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Purchasing

As you grow the manual spreadsheet is prone to error as well as confusion. We eliminate paperwork while reducing errors and saving time through automation. Create POs in seconds, a catalog of products and have confidence that approvals and purchasing are taken care of.

Reduce errors, improve procurement processes, save time and gain greater visibility.
Gain insights of buying patterns, locate strategic cost savings opportunities to position your company with a competitive advantage.
Easily locate a record of all actions taken thanks to the audit trail.

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Receiving

Making sure your team is recording items as received and uploading documents is simple. Get alerts on early shipments, print receiving tickets for received items and access to all open order and receiving information.

Two-way match of items on PO.
Auto receive or receive multiple partial shipments.
Reporting, including overdue items and materials received reports.

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Pre-Purchase Approvals

Take control of spending to improve your bottom line. Improve budget compliance to ensure everyone involved with the purchasing process is not spending more than they should.

Approvals from any access device or gadget
Approve or reject entire orders or per line item
Conditional approval/rejection routing
Attach message for rejected request

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Quotations

Complete vendor and material file management capabilities that provide your company with a powerful web-based e-procurement solution.

Create RFQ or convert from Requisition
Issue RFQ to multiple vendors
Provide vendors secure online bidding portal
Review bids and convert to PO

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Inventory

Gain full control of your inventory with coverage across multiple locations, and with automated integration with your purchasing processes.

Issue items from inventory, return to inventory or vendor, and transfer between locations.
Set reorder points and quantities.
Generate reorder report and convert to Requisition.

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Software That Grows With You

Start with the essential tools and upgrade as you grow, or hit the ground running with our enterprise package.

Essential

Cloud-Based
Integration with QuickBooks + APIs
Automated Workflows
Requisitions, Purchasing, Receiving, Invoicing
PunchOuts
2-way and 3-way Matching
Inventory Management
Full Support & Training
System Help Docs & Videos

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PROFESSIONAL

Cloud-Based
Integration with QuickBooks + Sage Intacct + APIs
Automated Workflows
Requisitions, Purchasing, Receiving, Invoicing
PunchOuts
2-way and 3-way Matching
Inventory Management
Full Support & Training
System Help Docs & Videos
Multi-Corps/Entities
Permission Based

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Entreprise

Cloud-Based
Integration with QuickBooks + Sage Intacct + APIs
Automated Workflows
Requisitions, Purchasing, Receiving, Invoicing
PunchOuts
2-way and 3-way Matching
Inventory Management
Full Support & Training
System Help Docs & Videos
Multi-Corps/Entities
Permission Based
Quotations (RFQs)
Contract & Asset Management

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Integrated with everything you need

Bellwether integrates easily with your favourite tools. We can also connect to a wider range of solutions with our API access. Streamline your entire workflow with Bellwether – speak to us today to understand how Bellwether can fit with your systems.

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Bellwether Purchasing Software web-based?

Bellwether Purchasing Software is 100% web-based throughout the entire suite, built from the ground up as a web application. Most products are simply web-enabled, meaning they have been enhanced to work with a web application, but they can also be susceptible to more operating problems.

Can Bellwether Purchasing Software Interface with my existing software?

Bellwether Purchasing Software interfaces with nearly all systems to become an integral part of the work environment. CSV files can be imported and exported to and from your existing software. Alternatively, XML integration and web services offer robust integration options.

How much does Bellwether Purchasing Software cost?

Software Price can have a broad range depending on the number of Bellwether Purchasing Software modules, the delivery model, and the number of concurrent or named users on the Bellwether Purchasing Software system.

Is there budgeting capability in Bellwether Purchasing Software?

Budgets can be tracked by G/L accounts, projects, job codes, commodities, etc.

Can Bellwether Purchasing Software track spend by vendor, buyer, commodity and department?

Spend can be tracked by user-defined date ranges for any spend category.

Can purchase requisitions be automatically routed through multiple levels of approvals for electronic sign off?

Bellwether Purchasing Software workflow automates the entire approval process. The approval process hierarchy is predetermined by you and approvals are routed via email through the signoff process. You can also check status approval to see where the requisition is in the approval process.

Can documents be attached to purchase requisitions?

Multiple documents can be attached to the PO and sent to your supplier. Also, the PO and attachments are all stored in Bellwether Purchasing Software database and can be retrieved for review.

Can Bellwether Purchasing Software track on-hand inventory level and inventory usage?

Inventory usage can be tracked by project, job, department, G/L account, etc., over user-defined date ranges.

Can Bellwether Purchasing Software track serial numbers and asset tags?

Serial number assets can be tracked at multiple, remote user locations.

What platforms does Bellwether Purchasing Software support?

Bellwether Purchasing Software works on all your devices, including Macs, Windows and Linux computers, as well as mobile phones and tablets.

I already have a Windows-based system. Why do I need a web-based system?

Web-based applications run entirely in your web browser (Internet Explorer, Firefox). There is no configuration or additional software needed on the user’s workstation. The Application can be accessed anywhere in the world with high-speed internet.