eProcurement Solutions - Farnell

Delivering best-in-class 

eProcurement 

Solutions 

A Premier Farnell Company 

eprocurement@farnell.com 

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Global coverage 

Access to the World’s leading brands 

Farnell is a pioneer in electronics distribution and in integrated systems that support your 

organisation’s strategic initiatives in spend management. 

We serve 400+ eProcurement customers worldwide and offer seamless integration with any eProcurement platform. 

Additionally, we have strategic partnerships with Ariba, Sciquest, SAP, Oracle and Perfect Commerce. 

Our dedicated global team of eProcurement experts provides you with ongoing support, before, during and after 

implementation. 


Farnell provides access to 

more than 3,500 leading 

brands from around the globe, 

that’s over 480,000 products 

available for fast delivery 

across Europe. 

Direct relationships with industryleading 

manufacturers means that 

we provide access to the very latest 

technology first, with no minimum 

order requirement!

eProcurement Solutions 

Best in class and adapted to your company requirements 

Solutions 

z PunchOut / Roundtrip Catalogue Page 4 

z Customer Managed Catalogues Page 5 

z Purchase to Pay Integration Page 6 

z e-PASS Page 6 

z i-Buy Spend Management Page 7 

eProcurement Solutions Comparison Chart 

Benefit 

Globally scaleable solution ● ● ● ● ● 

Reduce product selection errors ● ● ● ● ● 

Reduce cost by process automation ● ● ● ● ● 

Customer back office integration capability ● ● ● ● 

Latest products, availabilty and pricing ● ● ● 

Comprehensive product technical data including 

RoHS Compliance 

Punch Out/Round Trip 

Customer Managed Catalogue 

Purchase to Pay Integration 

ePass 

i-Buy 

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Product alternatives and substitues ● ● 

Detailed on-demand reporting ● 

Utilise spend management controls ● 


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PunchOut / Roundtrip Catalogue 

Integrated with your internal procurement 

system, the Farnell punchout/roundtrip 

catalogue allows your company’s users to 

search our inventory for available parts and 

build shopping carts that will flow back to 

your internal systems for approval. Farnell 

supports a fully integrated process using 

cXML, xCBL and OCI standards. 

Farnell’s eProcurement capabilities provide solutions to help 

manage your eProcurement business. Our “Favourites” feature 

allows users to manage and share information within your 

organisation without leaving the Farnell eProcurement site. 

The “Quick Paste” feature creates efficiences that save users 

valuable time. 

Favourites* 

Organising frequently purchased items and sharing the 

information with others on a project team can be a challenge. 

Farnell provides a ‘Favourites Folder’ library that allows users 


to organise and save parts for a specific project or task. 

Frequently purchased products can be organised into folders 

for easy access and faster purchasing. Folders can be emailed 

and shared with others on the same project without leaving 

your internal systems. Once the decision to purchase has been 

made, ordering products from within a ‘Favourites Folder’ can 

be accomplished simply by clicking on the shopping cart. 

*Dependent on technology capabilities 

Quick Paste 

Building a list of materials from a variety of electronic files? 

Rather than add one product at a time to a cart, Farnell 

provides a feature that allows multiple Farnell parts to be added 

to a cart, creating efficiencies in time and accuracy. By simply 

copying a list of Farnell part numbers and quantities into our 

‘Quick Paste’ box, a shopping cart is automatically created.

Customer Managed Catalogues 

Flexible and customised to your requirements 

Farnell can provide customer managed static 

catalogues in a variety of formats, including 

CIF (Ariba), CUP (Content Upload), delimited 

text, or BME (XML). 

The Farnell eProcurement team has built flexibility into our 

catalogue process, allowing for customisation depending 

upon your company’s requirements. Automated updates can 

be scheduled to provide regular renewal of data.’ 

Catalogues can be delivered via FTP ‘GET’ or FTP 

‘PUSH’ 


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Purchase To Pay Integration & e-Pass 

Allowing full automation of ordering and payment processes 

International research suggests that 

automating the purchase to pay process 

results in substantial cost savings by 

improving efficiency and reducing errors. 

As an enabled supplier, Farnell supports purchase to pay 

integration allowing full automation of purchase order and/ 

Find and select 

Transaction 

Payment 

CUSTOMER SYSTEM 

SAP 

ORACLE 

ARIBA 

SPEND CONTROL 

WORKFLOW 

BAAN 

JDE 

P’SOFT 

It’s easy to reduce the time and cost of 

searching for available products. 

Using a web services protocol, send a SOAP message to 

Farnell containing Farnell or manufacturer part numbers 

or keywords. You will receive an instant XML return 

message containing real time search results with product 

data, product availability, lead time and prices. 

e-Pass can accept requests for multiple products and 

return multiple responses at the same time (an advantage 

over electronic catalogues and even farnell.com). 


Shopping Cart returned to Customer 

Workflow in Customer ERP 

Integration to Customer System 

XML INVOICE 

SHOPPING BASKET 

XML PO 

XML POR 

XML ASN 

or invoicing processes. These savings can be of particular 

significance when compared to overall order values where 

it is necessary to place a large number of small value 

orders for indirect materials. 

All common standards are supported including XML (cXML, 

XCBL, BASDA, eBIS etc) and EDI (EDIFACT D97A). 

PREMIER FARNELL 

PUNCHOUT ROUNDTRIP 

OCI WEB SITE 

Availibility of eInvoicing 

dependant upon Fiscal rules 

of destination Country 

e-Pass Electronic Pricing & Availability Search Service 

ORBIX 

INTEGRATION 

SYSTEM 

INVOICE FEED 

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IT 

You can further lower your procurement costs by 

converting your bill of materials into a purchase order and 

transmitting it to Farnell electronically. Once the decision 

to purchase has been made, Farnell can accept your order 

in a variety of electronic formats, from EDI, XML, xCBL, 

depending upon your internal system. In stock products 

are shipped the same day we receive the order. 

Extend the automated process to invoicing too. You can 

be done with paper invoices, our automated capability 

includes XML and EDI invoices.

i-Buy 

Intelligent buying made easy with i-Buy 

Designed to enable complete cost control, reduced administration time and total visibility of 

your company’s spend; i-Buy is completely flexible and personalised to your company’s needs. 

z FlexIBIlITy 

Create your own procurement structure that can be edited at 

any time. 

z COMPleTe COST COnTROl 

Set users spend and create 

workflows that reflect your own 

purchasing approval structure. 

z IMPROved eFFICIenCy 

Eliminate the need for paper 

work, reduce purchasing time and 

receive goods faster! 

z BeTTeR InFORMed BuyInG 

deCISIOnS 

Get total transparency of your 

company’s spend with easily 

downloadable reports at product 

line level detail. 

“i-Buy provided a free electronic solution to the paper driven process that was 

weighing down our key departments” Sue Bartlett, Purchasing Support Specialist, GSI Group, Laser Division 

See our online demo at www.farnell.com/ibuy 

z IT’S eaSy TO uSe 

Users simply log on to the 

Farnell website and place 

orders as usual. Automated 

email notification instantly 

informs purchasing approvers 

of a new purchase request. 

z IT’S FRee! 

i-Buy provides you with many 

of the custom features of 

an expensive eProcurement 

system – at no cost! 

Combined with the added 

functionality of our website, 

i-Buy provides a tailored 

eProcurement solution with 

access to over 480,000 products, real-time stock, availability 

and assistance with thousands of alternative items. 


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Best Practices 

That expedite user adoption 

At Farnell we have more than 10 years of experience helping customers 

successfully achieve their eProcurement goals. Our flexibility enables us 

to work with any spend management system. 

The global eProcurement team has worked with companies around the 

world, ensuring successful delivery of solutions on global, regional and 

local rollouts. 

Dedicated Support Team 

A point of contact is assigned to each customer to provide 

ongoing support before, during and after implementation. 

Having a dedicated point of contact ensures easy access to Farnell 

capabilities and provides a focal point on customer 

requirements. Contact the team at eprocurement@farnell.com 

Customised Adoption Programme 

Employing a variety of formats, our eProcurement team 

organises and leads an ongoing training program, customised to drive 

company wide adoption at all levels. 

On-Site Training 

Classroom and one-on-one training sessions held independently or as 

part of a company’s training program. 

Web Conferences 

Tips and tools to facilitate using the PunchOut/Roundtrip 

environment, demonstrated via a live interactive web conference. 

For further information please email your contact details to 

eprocurement@farnell.com and one of our eProcurement 

Managers will contact you. 


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