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United States : Netsuite helps transform state of texas procurement into a billion dollar ecommerce enterprise
Publish Date : 05-Oct-2015
NetSuite Inc., the industry's leading provider of cloud-based financials / ERP and omnichannel commerce suites, today announced that the State of Texas has replaced its legacy procurement systems with NetSuite SuiteCommerce as the commerce platform for its enterprise-scale TxSmartBuy (www.txsmartbuy.com) B2B procurement marketplace.
The SuiteCommerce cloud-based solution has enabled nearly $1 billion of annual transactions, connecting 4,700 buyers from state agencies and local governments to more than 1,000 vendors selling 3.5 million items, from office equipment to road paving materials. With SuiteCommerce, the Texas Comptroller of Public Accounts (CPA) delivers a modern and intuitive B2C experience to all TxSmartBuy users. The superior procurement experience and the system's improved efficiency has helped drive rapid adoption among both buyers and sellers. User adoption is expected to increase from 4,700 buyers in 2015 to more than 6,900 in 2017.
"The tool essentially sells itself," said Michael Telfeyan, Division Director at the CPA Project Management Office. "So many organizations and state agencies use the tool that vendors are incentivized to get on there and give the best possible price. That's the real value. And we have more functionality planned. We're going to flex NetSuite as much as we possibly can."
TxSmartBuy 2.0 went live in 2014 and replaced a collection of on-premise systems in place since 2008 that were costly to maintain. In just one year, annual system costs have plummeted 77 percent from $11.5 million to less than $3 million.
