CASE STUDY
First Choice
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First Choice Purchasing (FCP) is a dynamic player in the
increasing volumes of data for reporting and analysis
hospitality and healthcare sectors offering a range of
and this could not be readily achieved using a
innovative procurement services and solutions to assist
combination of manual processes and spreadsheets
their clients in the area of cost reduction on goods and
created in-house. Our customer engagement
services to ultimately improve profitability. Today their
methodology meant we discussed the key critical points
client base comprises of over 200 Hotels, Nursing
around the current reporting processes in detail and
Homes, Restaurants, Golf Clubs and Coffee Shops
then worked through how the Bgate platform would
throughout Ireland.
readily address these points, plus deliver FCP
considerable additional value in the area of
To cater for their growth First Choice Purchasing needed
procurement analysis, price matching, intelligence
to deploy a reporting system that would provide their
and reporting.”
finance team and other departments with a cost
effective means to analyse procurement data and
First Choice Purchasing can now access a number of
replace their existing manual reporting system.
clever real-time reporting tools which allow them to
maintain good supplier relationships.
After doing some research FCP engaged Bgate to discuss
The key ones being:
their e-procurement platform and its suitability for FCP’s
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Price check against any agreed contract prices
requirements.
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Sales and rebate analysis
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Product purchases report by all sites, one site,
“Our initial discussions with FCP saw us investing time to
by supplier, value, time – and more
understand their business model and the challenges that
they needed to address in the area of procurement and
FCP GM Eoghan Donnellan, says “At FCP our mission is
supplier management”, says Stephen Muldowney, Bgate
to provide our customers with the lowest unit cost for
Sales Manager. “As they are a growing business it was
all their purchasing needs and requirements while also
important that FCP have the ability to work with
ensuring that quality and service are not compromised.”
has been recognised for its innovative e-procurement solution. The privately owned Dublin based operation
has successfully focussed on developing an independent B2B platform and ecosystem for Buyers and Suppliers
in a range of industry sectors including Food Service, Hospitality, Aged Care, Commercial Construction.
www.bgate.com
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“Therefore it was crucial that we were able to instantly
Today the FCP customer base is comprised of many
get granular reporting on all transactions relating to the
hotels in the 3, 4 and 5 star category as well as
client base of FCP. Previously this area was typically a
properties in the nursing home, golf club, coffee shop
very challenging and time consuming exercise because
& restaurant sectors.
we had to manually pull information together from a
variety of sources and present them in a spreadsheet
About Bgate
which was neither efficient or timely. Working with
Bgate is provided in a Software as a Service format and
Bgate has been a very positive experience. Their cloud
has proven to be extremely attractive to Irish
based platform was easy to implement and now it
organisations as it requires minimal capital outlay,
provides us with a range of invaluable reports.”
integrates with existing systems and can be up and
running in a matter of hours.
About First Choice
First Choice Purchasing (FCP) is a Professional
Outsourced Procurement Company. FCP source the right
quality products and services from a network of leading
and reliable suppliers. They leverage their purchasing
power to secure the best prices in the market for their
customers, while also delivering on quality and service.
First Choice Purchasing reviews all of its purchasing
agreements with suppliers on an annual basis and
conducts a rigorous tendering process where they
continuously benchmark all their suppliers against
market pricing. The aim is to secure the most
competitive market price on all goods and services
combined with optimum quality and service.
has been recognised for its innovative e-procurement solution. The privately owned Dublin based operation
has successfully focussed on developing an independent B2B platform and ecosystem for Buyers and Suppliers
in a range of industry sectors including Food Service, Hospitality, Aged Care, Commercial Construction.
www.bgate.com