Corporate online store of small purchases (testing and assessment material)

The Cognitive Technologies company released in May, 2016 the first version of "Corporate online store of small purchases" (testing and assessment material). A system will be delivered as the boxed solution on-premise, and as a cloud service according to the SaaS model.

According to developers, "The corporate online store of small purchases" is created especially for the enterprises which have a need of carrying out purchases of small volume (for subjects 44-FZ — not higher than 100 thousand rubles, for subjects 223-FZ — 500 thousand rubles) and fast determination of the starting maximum price of the contract. Besides, the testing and assessment material is designed to stimulate everywhere small and medium-sized businesses for participation in deliveries for the companies with the state participation.

According to data of Cognitive Technologies, the purchasing amount of the small volume (ZMO) annually is 5-7% of all turnover of purchases.

"Taking into account that turnover of purchases of subjects of federal laws 223-FZ and 44-FZ makes more p26 of trillion, it is about the market of 1.3-1.8 trillion rubles. Potential clients of the testing and assessment material system are over 100 thousand enterprises of a public sector" — the CEO of Cognitive Technologies Chernogorov Andrey provided data.

As noted, several revealed requirements became the main premises to creation of the software product for a new target group of users.

"First, need to multiply reduce time for carrying out purchases of small volume according to federal law 223-FZ and purchasing provisions of the customer. Secondly, need for operational carrying out prequalification selection and determination of the starting maximum price of the contract. Thirdly, a task to systematize purchases of small volume and to bring them into accord with internal qualifiers. The main functionality the testing and assessment material is based on these key expectations" — Andrey Chernogorov told.

The company is sure that the main problems for small purchases to which elimination the testing and assessment material is directed are impossibility of receiving economy from scale due to consolidation of purchases of the same products and also complete decentralization of control of purchases with the price of lot is lower than 500 thousand rubles.

"Implementation of corporate online store will allow to simplify significantly search of the supplier and to reduce the period of carrying out small purchases — Chernogorov considers. — At large enterprise their volume can be calculated by tens and hundreds of millions of rubles a year. It is also that flank to which the customer needs to direct our tools on business process optimization and financial economy"

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According to Cognitive Technologies, economic effect of implementation the testing and assessment material is shown, first of all, in reduction of cost of the purchased nomenclature, due to consolidation of purchases of the same products and receiving economy from scale and also increase in control of the purchased nomenclature. Deployment term the testing and assessment material based on the customer is no more than 5 months. During this time the developer spends a full stroke of works — from actions for attribution of the existing categories and integration with internal systems to testing of biddings in the pilot mode and final start of online store to commercial operation.