Whether you deal with your suppliers through EDI or paper, RES Purchaser can reduce your costs. Depending on their preferences, Vendors can inexpensively convert partly or entirely to Internet/Extranet based functionality, beginning from simple tasks such as providing a Web version of their catalog. If they only convert part, buyers will have achieved partial savings by reducing the number of paper transactions with their possible errors. If they convert fully, buyers can complete a transaction within minutes, without having to switch systems. If both trading partners have invested in EDI infrastructure, the delays and costs associated with this computer-to-computer method of doing business can be reduced, particularly in those tasks where the high security and formal legal framework of this medium are not worth the cost.

Buyers can deal with the full spectrum of suppliers from the same intranet workbench, whether or not the suppliers actively participate in reducing costs to the absolute minimum.