Procurement

GL ShipManager – Procurement streamlines the complete scope of maritime procurement activities and provides more transparency in a shipping company's purchasing and materials management processes. Improved information management ensures that crew and office staff are working with the same information, and always know the status of requisitioned items.

The purchasing needs of all vessels managed by the system, regardless of their geographical location, are efficiently and easily managed. The system delivers on-demand access to key business data regarding suppliers, prices, order and delivery history, budgets, equipment and stock levels.

A detailed hierarchy of equipment, spare parts and other consumables, as well as an interface to catalogs (ISSA, IMPA, etc.) enables purchase orders or supplier inquiries to be initiated with just a few simple clicks.

Increase efficiency

• of fleet-wide purchasing processes
• of logistics and materials management processes
• of workflow due to automation of tasks and minimized manual data entry

Increase speed

• of decision making with on-demand access to key business data
• of order processing from the initial onboard requisitioning of materials to the initiation of purchase orders with just a few simple clicks

Increase transparency

• of budgets per vessel and committed expenses
• of purchasing activities and the status of ordered items from the initial request through to the confirmation of delivery and approval of invoice
• of stock levels