Category: Procurement

Announcement

6.6.2023 kello 12.40 | SC Software Oy

SC Software has emerged as the successful bidder in the comprehensive sourcing solution procurement tender of the Hospital District of Helsinki and Uusimaa (Hus) with its SC Sourcing Suite. At the time of this announcement, the decision on the appeal regarding the tender outcome is being processed by the Market Court.

Hus is the largest healthcare operator in Finland and is responsible for specialized healthcare services in the Uusimaa region. Hus’s special responsibility area has approximately 2.2 million residents, and it treats nearly 700,000 patients annually with its workforce of 27,000 employees.

Aiming to pioneer in national healthcare procurement

Hus is Finland’s largest procurement unit in the social and healthcare sector, and it also operates as a joint procurement unit for other social and healthcare customers, sourcing healthcare supplies, medical devices, equipment, and services. The total value of Hus’s acquisitions is approximately one billion euros per year.

Hus has consistently invested in the development of its sourcing operations, aiming to be a national pioneer in social and healthcare procurements. This includes genuinely considering the needs of their patients, leveraging their strong buyer position, acting agilely, embracing innovation, and promoting responsible and competitive markets. In recent years, the procurement unit has transitioned to a centralized category management model, consistently streamlined its procurements, improved sourcing and contract expertise, and launched a sustainability program for procurements.

“For us, the opportunity to work with Finland’s largest social and healthcare procurement unit Hus is a significant achievement! We hope that our collaboration will contribute to Hus’s goal of being a pioneer in national healthcare procurements,” says Tiina Vestman, Sales Director at SC Software.

SC Sourcing Suite evolves – now providing comprehensive support for joint procurement units

In addition to its own procurements, Hus extends its procurement operations to serve other social and healthcare procurement units. Hus continuously plans, prepares, and tenders approximately 500-700 procurements, essentially managing 500-700 projects lasting 3-24 months with its procurement organization.

A joint procurement unit must be able to systematically, timely, and efficiently fulfill the sourcing needs of multiple organizations while ensuring uninterrupted service production and cost-effectiveness. Clear operating models and data-driven management are essential in Hus’s procurement operations.

The SC Sourcing Suite procurement management solution has been tailored to meet the specific needs of joint procurement units, offering system support for project organization management, process guidance, and category management. The solution provides a unified platform for collection of information from internal and external sources, enabling data-driven management and continuous improvement. As decision-making and administrative work become more efficient, procurement productivity and cost savings increase.

SC Sourcing Suite challenges the market

SC Sourcing Suite enables strategic sourcing management, supporting goal setting and impact monitoring by using concrete metrics. Additionally, the system provides process support for collecting procurement needs, planning and preparation, category management, tendering, and supplier and contract management.

SC Sourcing Suite has been well received in the public sector market. In addition to winning the Hus tender, SC Software has also won the tender for the City of Espoo, the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County, and the City of Tampere’s procurement systems in 2022 and 2023. Simultaneously, the company has invested in incorporating electronic tender management into the Sourcing Suite. The first delivery of electronic tender management solution is currently underway for the City of Tampere.

Further information:

Olli Väätäinen
CEO
olli.vaatainen@scsoftware.fi
+358 50 557 8111

Tiina Vestman
Vice President, Sales
tiina.vestman@scsoftware.fi
+358 50 561 4453

SC Software in brief

SC Software is a cloud-based SaaS company that delivers customer-specific software solutions as well as industry-specific software products. The company leverages its own high-productivity software development platform to automate much of the application’s manual coding. For customers, this is reflected in the better quality of the systems and the timeliness of deliveries.

SC Software was founded in 2014. The company’s turnover in 2021 reached 2.2 million euros. SC Software’s customers include the Industrial Union, Neova Group and VR Group.

Announcement 

19.12.2022 klo 16.00 | SC Software Oy

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Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County implements the SC Sourcing Suite solution. The customer estimates the total value of the contract period to be about 1.8 million euros.

The responsibility for organizing social- and healthcare and rescue services will be transferred from the municipalities to the wellbeing counties in the beginning of 2023 with the social- and healthcare reformation. Therefore, the procurement operations and the existing delivery contracts are also being transferred to the new wellbeing counties. Western Uusimaa is one of the first counties to tender a sourcing solution.

“The solution contributes to our goals”

“We are satisfied that the solution will be implemented”, comments Antti Pakkanen, project manager for procurement of the Western Uusimaa Wellbeing Services County. “We have many procurement specialists who transferred from the city of Espoo. They already have good experience with the system in question. Leading of procurement and its entire life cycle is central in modern procurement operations. To that extent, the solution contributes to our goals as well.”

SC Sourcing Suite is also seen to support the development of procurement activities and leading with knowledge:

“We expect strong support from the system for the preparation, execution and management of procurement in general”, Pakkanen continues. “The solution is also expected to provide new opportunities for the development of our sourcing processes; in our view, it meets the needs that we have become aware of. Leading with knowledge is central to that. We’ve had good cooperation with SC Software already in the preparation phase, and we expect it to continue in further development of the solution”, Pakkanen concludes.

SC Sourcing Suite supports management, sourcing activities and tendering

SC Sourcing Suite is a strategic sourcing solution, that offers different user roles a personalized and current view to the procurement portfolio, contract lifecycles and suppliers. In addition to operational support, the solution offer tools for leading in accordance with the national procurement strategy and the client organization’s own goals and processes.

“Our solution supports the best practices and operating models of strategic procurement management, that are also part of the Finnish government’s procurement goals. The solution offers support for the operational execution as well as the management of the overall procurement at the wellbeing county. It enables monitoring of purchases, reacting to deviations and making strategic decisions”, says SC Software’s sales director Tiina Vestman.

The supplier’s and purchaser’s portals included in SC Sourcing Suite increase cooperation between operators. Electronic tendering tools will be launched in the spring.

The City of Tampere develops its sourcing management. Photo: Laura Vanzo / Visit Tampere.

Announcement

7.11.2022 at 9.25 | SC Software Oy 

SC Software won the bidding for the City of Tampere’s sourcing management and tendering system. The tendering service developed by SC Software will be launched on a wider market in the spring of 2023.

Sourcing is one of SC Software’s key business areas, for which the company has developed software solutions for a long time. The victory in the City of Tampere’s sourcing system tender strengthens the SC Sourcing Suite product family development. According to the customer’s estimate, the total value of the the entire contract period is approximately 600,000 euros.

“We are developing our sourcing management and the sourcing system offers the right tools for that. SC Sourcing Suite also supports the management of purchase needs and the entire lifecycle of sourcing, which offers new interesting opportunities for operational development. The sourcing system is tailored to meet our needs, and at the same time it enables the evaluation of our current processes and the possibility of making them more efficient”, says Kari Paju, CPO at the City of Tampere.

E-tendering as part of SC Sourcing Suite

SC Sourcing Suite is expanding with an electronic tendering service. In the future, procurement units can publish invitations to tender, and suppliers can participate in biddings through the portal. The new electronic tendering service will be introduced in spring 2023 at the same time with the system implementation for the City of Tampere.

“This is the last missing piece for the comprehensive sourcing management solution. The new e-tendering service will work smoothly together with Hilma and take into account the requirements of the coming eForms reform. It integrates to the sourcing system so that data no longer needs to be entered many times in various places. Special attention has also been paid to the service’s accessibility and information security”, says Tiina Vestman, Sales Director at SC Software.

Further information:

SC Software

Olli Väätäinen
CEO
olli.vaatainen@scsoftware.fi
+358 50 557 8111

Tiina Vestman
Vice President, Sales
tiina.vestman@scsoftware.fi
+358 50 561 4453

City of Tampere

Kari Paju
CPO
+358 40 554 6050

SC Software in brief

SC Software is a cloud-based SaaS company that delivers customer-specific software solutions as well as industry-specific software products. The company leverages its own high-productivity software development platform to automate much of the application’s manual coding. For customers, this is reflected in the better quality of the systems and the timeliness of deliveries.

SC Software was founded in 2014. The company’s turnover in 2021 reached 2.2 million euros. SC Software’s customers include the Industrial Union, Neova Group and VR Group.

Petteri Vahla, CEO of eKeiretsu and Olli Väätäinen, CEO of SC Software

Announcement

2.8.2022 klo 08.00 | SC Software Oy 

SC Software and eKeiretsu have made a business transaction for HankintaSampo and TyöllisyysSampo SaaS services. With the purchase, SC Software expands the range of its offering of sourcing solutions.

SC Software has acquired eKeiretsu Oy’s procurement business, which includes HankintaSampo and TyöllisyysSampo SaaS services. The business transaction was completed on August 1st, 2022.

“Sourcing is one of SC Software’s strategic business areas, which we will further strengthen with the business deal,” says SC Software’s CEO Olli Väätäinen.

“eKeiretsu has operated as a procurement software provider for a long time. In addition to this, eKeiretsu has developed a SaaS service platform for the area of ​​business analytics, and the company has decided to focus on this area in the future. SC Software was a natural partner for us to transfer the procurement services to, and therefore secure the further development of these services,” says eKeiretsu’s CEO Petteri Vahla.

SC Software has long experience as a developer and supplier of procurement software solutions; the first procurement solution was delivered to VR Group in 2014. Since then, the product development of the SC Sourcing Suite has continued actively. HankintaSampo and TyöllisyysSampo -services will supplement SC Software’s current offering.

Further information:

Olli Väätäinen 

CEO 

olli.vaatainen@scsoftware.fi 

+358 50 557 8111 

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