Perfony allowed us to reduce the number of emails by 100!

Marc BOURION
Management Assistant – Delegation Management
GRDF

Perfony was set up in early 2016. Our research focused on a reliable tool that could allow us to track the progress of the purchasing process and thus avoid tensions with the delegations giving orders.

We have really succeeded in integrating the use of Perfony into the process and now each purchase request is created in Perfony in the folder corresponding to each Delegation. The unique identification number generated by Perfony must appear on the “expression of needs form” issued by a requesting Delegation. This number is also required on purchase orders, so that in case of difficulty, even suppliers can give it to us and we can easily find out what it is about.

For monitoring, we share common management rules. For example, a 20% action is a purchase requisition that has been seen but not yet processed, over 50% is that processing is underway, etc… 80% of the processed purchase requisitions are waiting for validation by the controller in the management system.
From now on, a payment request is only taken into account when the Delegation has formulated it as a comment on the action in Perfony.

In the good practices section, we also share a common nomenclature for naming the actions “supplier name / event name / amount”. It allows you to be extremely efficient and you know where you stand, sometimes without even having to open an action.

Finally, comments are used to exchange on the status of orders. No more emails that get lost or don’t go away and therefore no more disputes; it’s social appeasement. Same with attachments, this part allows us to group all the documents related to a purchase in one place.