Amway booked audit of transparency of purchases

The BrightConsult (NaviConGroup) company announced end of the consulting project directed to structuring and increase in transparency of purchasing activity of Amway company, the recognized world leader in the field of direct sales. The project was designed to become a starting point in improvement of internal financial discipline of corporation. During the project the analysis of the operating business processes in the field of purchases, collecting and formalization of requirements to a system and also the description of their implementation based on the Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 platform was performed.

"With increase in volumes of business and development of corporate standards before us there was a need of structuring work in the field of purchases. To minimize project risks and to provide guaranteed qualitative result, we made the decision on carrying out before works of the complex analysis of business processes and development of the formalized requirements. We are grateful to team of experts of BrightConsult which masterly coped with this task in the short time and showed the high level of professionalism and project management", – Alekseev Vasily, the head of department of information technologies of Amway LLC told.

The project lasting one month was implemented using methodology of Microsoft Sure Step according to which two main stages of the project – the analysis and design were selected. According to the detailed plan made taking into account features of the customer at the first stage specialists of BrightConsult conducted series of interviews with representatives of Amway which allowed to define the main requirements to future system. At a stage of design formalization of requirements and the detailed description of their implementation was carried out. Consultants structuring business processes in the field of purchasing activity of the company, including processes of approval and signing of the contracts on purchase and the accompanying financial procedures was offered. As the platform for implementation the product Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 was selected.