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Delivering Efficiency Gains with Spend Control

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In February 2008 the Audit Commission published a Housing National Report entitled “Better Buys – Improving housing association procurement practice”. The report focused on the role of housing association procurement practice in helping to build a more efficient and effective sector.

One of the main conclusions of the report is that “potential savings through improved procurement could be more than double those currently being saved”. Furthermore, one of the main recommendations is that housing associations should “explore and evaluate a greater role for e-procurement tools”. The report also makes reference to the Government’s 2007 Comprehensive Spending Review in which housing associations were set a target of 3 per cent net cash-releasing value for money gains per annum of the next three years.

It is against this background that the following document looks at how procurement tools like PROACTIS from LAKE help you deliver the efficiency gains that are being urged upon the social housing sector.

In this white paper we focus on how tools like PROACTIS from LAKE can help you reduce transaction costs by reducing time spent in processing orders and reducing the time spent in producing the accurate and up-to-date reports required by management to make informed decisions.

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