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If you spend more than about $1 million a year on energy, your potential savings are big enough to make this worth your time.
If you operate more than about 20 stores, your energy-management challenges are complex enough that you’ll welcome these ideas, specifically aimed at multisite retailers.
Equipment Procurement Management
Product Features
Verisae’s Procurement Manager product is at the heart of procurement solution. It consists of an asset library that contains information such as vendor addresses, asset lead times, asset price, warranty information and asset cut sheets. The store planner’s CAD system connects to the database and has access to full asset information while planning. The equipment can be a single item or a group of items (kit) used in this system to achieve the maximum flexibility while placing the equipment tags.
Product Asset Library
Start with the right equipment, the latest price, and the most comprehensive data sheets in a completely up to date product library with your vendors on your team.
Auto CAD or Microstation Interface
Add electronic smart tags to your drawings for each equipment type. Add and delete each tag and see an instant change in budgets related to the project.
Store Planning Change Request (SPCR)
The Store Planning Change Request (SPCR) program is designed and developed for managing the SPCR process. It clearly defines each distinct procedure which may involve store planners, equipment buyers, project managers, engineers, store owners and department managers. The basic idea behind the SPCR module is to track and create accountability within the organization. The module seamlessly integrates with the EAP™ core and leverages the user, job, and location database fields.
Used Equipment Inventory (UEI)
Quite often a retailer has one or many used equipment warehouses. At times it is more cost-effective to ship refurbished/used equipment to the project site rather than buying new. This module gives buyers access to the equipment inventory in real-time and helps place orders for the equipment from the warehouse. The warehouse employees also use this module to track and ship equipment. The module leverages the database fields of Procurement Manager core.
Each piece of equipment is linked to the attributes directly from the database to eliminate the user key-ins. Such attributes are also used to annotate the equipment. One can place the tag as the note if one knows what it is or simply let the system retrieve the attributes based on the graphic symbols in the drawings.
The equipment database can also be used as the corporate standard to maintain the drawing consistency across different projects within the retailer. Once the store plan is made in CAD system, the budget estimate for a project is quickly created in the database and can be reviewed by the buyers and project managers.
The buyer and project manager connect to the database using Procurement Manager a client software loaded in their desktop computers using AutoCAD and Microstation and make job completion a part of the document, eliminating the words "not on tape". The software has a built-in reporting engine where rich management reports such as job cost, budget and comparison of one job with another can be easily made.
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