Take Control of your Supply Chain
Control-Panel™ offers the opportunity to effectively manage the ordering process for organizations with multiple users and locations. Control-Panel™ is built around efficiency to reduce the amount of time spent on the management and processes associated with ordering products, equipment and supplies. This amazing on-line tool has been used for years to optimize and streamline the ordering process for many of NCM’s most dynamic customers. Control-Panel™ has proven to vastly improve management visibility, provide a mechanism to optimize spending, reduce expenditures and improve organizational profitability. Control-Panel™ does this by reducing or eliminating inefficient ordering patterns by standardizing and consolidating the products, equipment and supplies ordered throughout an organization. Control-Panel™ helps establish and maintain organizational integrity and accountability.
Control-Panel™ Key Features:
Order Management
The hierarchal structure in Control-Panel™ uses four levels of established roles:
- Users (Employees)
- Administrators (Admin)
- Approvers (Executive)
- Watchers (Employees)
Users: This group is comprised of the individuals throughout an organization who coordinate and submit clinic orders for products, equipment & supplies. Users are typically assigned to an Administrator, but in some organizations, Users may be allowed to bypass the approval and review process.
Administrators: The number of Administrators needed is dependent on the size and scope of the organization, as well as the chosen use of the hierarchal structure. Administrators review and authorize all orders generated by those Users assigned to them.
Executive Approvers: Offers an additional layer of approval and visibility.
Watcher: An optional role that allows a person to view all purchases, but does not require their approval during the authorization process.
Approved List of Items
Control-Panel™ allows Administrators to create one or more lists of Approved or Authorized items. When items are ordered by any user that are not on the Approved List of Items, Control-Panel™ provides clear and distinct visibility of those items to the Administrator for review before allowing the order to proceed. This allows for further scrutiny by management to consider alternatives, make changes to the order, remove the items requested and/or return the order to the original user with an associated message.
Expenditure Limits
Administrators can assign ordering limits by user, location, order value, or combined monthly order value.
E-Com Integration
Control-Panel™ is fully integrated with our E-Com ordering platform and all of its features.
Quick-Slam™
This ingenious and simple tool was developed to improve order entry efficiency. Quick-Slam™ allows the upload of an Excel or CSV data file to quickly populate a shopping cart. This feature is a great time-saver.
Data Analysis
Control-Panel™ allows our customers to view and/or download to Excel all their data for analytical purposes.
Customer Item Coding
Control-Panel™ offers the opportunity for our customers to assign a code to any item ordered for internal tracking purposes. This feature has been used for a multitude of reasons, including, but not limited to, sales tax and internal costs center classifications.
Custom Programming
The Control-Panel™ software continues to evolve. This evolution comes from our attitude and practice of listening to our customers, understanding what they’re asking for, and deploying our software developers to meet those needs.
Who We Are
Our prevailing philosophy is that our data that is your data, belongs to you. If you have entrusted NCM with the preponderance of your purchases, never hesitate to ask if you need something more. We are here for you and no reasonable request will ever be denied. Control-Panel™ is just one example of many investments we have made for our customers. This is what a Strategic Supply Chain Partner does and this is who we are.
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