MarketingPilot provides a robust set of tools to make purchasing and procurement faster and more efficient. MarketingPilot:

• Provides a central dashboard for all purchasing activities.
• Provides a consistent and flexible approach.
• Makes it easy to create purchase orders and send them to vendors.
• POs can have an unlimited number of line items.
• Minimizes data entry by carrying information forward from requests for quotes, and into invoices.
• Links requests for quotes, invoices and payments to purchase orders streamlining procurement and facilitating invoice reconciliation and payment.
• Tracks PO variance.
• Associates purchase orders with projects, vendors and clients.
• Enables users to attach all related documentation including emails, faxes, mockups, PDFs, etc.
• Enables users to easily share cost information.
• Provides additional transparency and improved auditability of the procurement process.
• Supports accruals.
• Routes POs for approval.
• Enables users to allocate/split costs across products, locations, channels, etc.
• Supports multiple currencies and languages (Enterprise Edition).

Manage Request for Quotes (RFQs and RFPs) Like Never Before
Purchasing starts with soliciting price quotes from vendors. MarketingPilot provides a set of tools to help users institute a best practices approach to managing RFPs and RFQs.

• Central dashboard for all RFQ and RFP activities.
• Create a single request for quote and use it again and again with different vendors and different projects.
• RFQs can have an unlimited number of line items.
• Requests for quote are linked to POs and invoices to streamline and facilitating invoice reconciliation and payment.
• Provides additional transparency and improved auditability of the procurement process.
• RFQs are linked to products, product lines, brands, campaigns, jobs, tasks, channels, markets, locations, divisions, regions, companies and components.
• Attach all related documentation including emails, faxes, mockups, PDFs, etc.
• Route RFQs for approval.
• Minimize data entry by carrying information forward from requests for quotes, and into expense management.