e-Auctions
Discover the benefits of dedicated reverse e-Auctions B2B.
Boosting digitalization and optimizing professional negotiations.
What are reverse e-Auctions?
One of the most transparent and secure methods to carry out professional negotiations and achieve the most optimal results in your purchasing process, but sourcing only that you want.
Our proposal is about dedicated electronic auctions, only to invited participating suppliers, who present and improve their quotations in real time according to their strategy, and always respecting the previously agreed conditions.
What's APTSE?
The software web APTSE is an exclusive platform of dedicated electronic auctions, B2B, created based on the great experience developed by Gestplast Ingeniería in the management of purchase projects and negotiations through reverse e-Auctions.
APTSE has been designed to satisfy the Purchasing services of most of the companies, regardless of their size or sector, being fully compatible with both small, medium and large companies.
Our proposals.
With APTSE you will find the solution that best suits your needs.
APTSE Web
Get full access to APTSE by acquiring the pay-per-use service, that is, for a monthly or annual fee you will have all the APTSE functionalities to manage your reverse auctions.
“Software as a Service” SAAS.
Licence
If you prefer the software APTSE acquisition, you can get your license for full control of your purchasing projects, and you will be able to have total autonomy in the management of negotiation processes by e-Auction and RFQ’s. You can have the APTSE platform with the conditions and benefits you need in your organization.
Outsourcing
Our proposal for purchasing project management does not require an extra activity for our clients since we take care of everything. You will avoid to spend resources, our team performs the analysis, proposes the options according to your strategy and will performs the configuration and management of each e-Auction.
What kind of e-Auctions can you do?
Classic e-Auction
The participants bid on-line in accordance with their quotations and according their strategy during a limited time duration.
Dutch e-Auction.
The price increases each defined short time, the winner is the first to accept.
Brazilian e-Auction
With a defined cost amount, the participant bids with a number of units offered for that amount.
Really,
many benefits.
Reduce the cost of purchase.
The main advantage of a reverse e-Auction is the reduction of the purchase price, since it has been proven that sourcing projects carried out through dedicated e-Auctions improve results compared to traditional face-to-face negotiations, increasing the margin of purchase and optimizing the costs of any organization.
Respecting your procedures and process.
Our proposal does not replace a traditional negotiation but rather complements it, without the need to introduce changes and always working with the approved suppliers of your homologated panel. It is therefore a closed process that ensures the quality of purchases since only the buyer decides.
Improves the lead time of negotiations
e-Auction is also one of the most efficient negotiation methods that exist, since in a reduced period of time, it allows to obtain the best quotation that each supplier can provide, without penalizing any other factor, reducing negotiation times.
Are you a supplier?
If you participate in an e-Auctions session, you will also obtain benefits, you will have the possibility to offer your best quotation knowing the real existing situation. And if you are really competitive, you will have the opportunity to offer your best quotation to get the business.
You decide who particpate.
The e-Auctions sessions with APTSE are totally dedicated, that is, only the suppliers invited to the session participate, therefore, it is not an open negotiation process. In this way we ensure that the negotiation is carried out with the desired suppliers and with the products or services that are really required.
Truly effective negotiation.
The management of purchases and negotiations within any company, are an important agent that directly affects its results. Efficient negotiations ensure that real market prices are achieved and avoiding hidden margins that may exist within supplier companies.
Some features of APTSE on-line software
APTSE is the perfect sotware platform for any purchasing process, being possible to launch a RFQ phase to the selected suppliers, exchange project files and finally carry out the final negotiation through e-Auction.
Simple, Easy and Intuitive.
Multiple configuration options
No need for installation.
Incredibly simple for administrators and participants
All the configuration options you need.
Each e-Auction requires its configuration depending on the trading strategy. With APTSE you have multiple configuration options such as defining the starting price and whether the prices are visible, or simply showing the ranking. You can also configure several references within the same session or weight the price of one of your suppliers.
Contact on-line with your participants.
During the e-Auction session, there is the possibility of making communications between the client, participant, and administrator through chat. This tool allows solving doubts in real time that may arise during the session, as well as exchanging any information related to the session.
Manage your RFQ
APTSE provides you the possibility of sharing files for the RFQ phase, so that the necessary files can be uploaded by the administrator so that suppliers can manage their offers in the phase prior to the e-Auction session. In the same way, participants can upload their files to be managed by the project administrator.
Discover the customization details of the e-Auction sesion.
Sign in to APTSE.
Start managing your projects.
Create e-Auction sessions in the project.
Add as many sessions as you need. Your project may require several auctions, they will be treated as lots.
Define the e-Auction parameters.
Use the multiple e-Auction configuration parameters.
A right strategy in the configuration is key to achieve the best results.
Decide on the starting price, the minimum and maximum reductions, the information that the participants will see …….
Complete the e-Auction setup.
Add the auction references, that is, for what product or service the suppliers bid. And don’t forget to introduce extensions in your event, they are truly important.
Once the auction configuration has been completed, invite the participants.
Achieve the best results in your purchasing negotiations with APTSE.
Choose the Plan according your necessities and get your subscription.
With a few simple steps and the right strategy, you will be able to have the perfect tool to complete your Purchase procedures.
It provides added value to your company, digitalization of your negotiation process and time savings, and all this, without the need for expensive investments.
