Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium selects SAP Ariba
Thursday 21st September, 2023
Bristol & Weston NHS Purchasing Consortium (BWPC) has selected SAP Ariba to drive its digital procurement transformation programme as it embraces a single modern procurement platform in the cloud.
This new partnership with SAP will streamline sourcing, contracts, supplier risk and procure to pay operations across two Trusts, addressing its legacy technology deficits and risk. The move to SAP Ariba will help enable BWPC’s vision for procurement; “To provide procurement support to the whole Healthier Together Partnership, improving patient care through effective management of the supply chain, whilst leveraging value across all our spend”.
BWPC is staffed by NHS employees hosted by North Bristol NHS Trust and its services include all aspects of clinical and non-clinical purchasing, supply chain management and capital equipping (CES). BWPC currently supports two NHS Trusts including North Bristol NHS Trust and University Hospitals Bristol and Weston NHS Foundation Trust, representing over 23,000 employees.
Close working relationships with these Trusts, and collaboration with other organisations, brings economies of scale, sharing of data and best practice so that they maximise savings and efficiencies. BWPC works closely with each client to support compliance with all purchase-to-pay procedures and delivering improved efficiencies in all areas including automation, consolidation of invoices, strictly controlled access to purchasing systems and so on.
To drive more efficiency and ultimately significant cost savings, BWPC has partnered with SAP to digitially transform its entire source to pay processes. By implementing SAP Ariba Strategic Sourcing, Supplier Risk and Procure to Pay, BWPC is looking to generate over £16m savings over five years as part of a multi-trust initiative.