eProcurement Customized to Your Business
Using our best-in-class integration methodology, MSC eProcurement gives you greater control over spend and budget for all your purchasing needs.
Keep Your Facilities Running at Top Speed
- Save time and money during the ordering process with MSC eProcurement technology that integrates with your existing platform. Our focus on data governance and automation means you spend less time placing purchase orders, approving invoices and researching discrepancies.
- Multiple catalog solutions provide an enhanced shopping experience.
- Electronic document integrations allow for automated orders and invoices along with your other purchasing documents.
Key Features For You
MSC provides each customer a personalized catalog and punch-out site:
✔︎ Your company logo and name
✔︎ Advanced shipping notifications
✔︎ Level II Punch-Out
✔︎ Electronic invoices
✔︎ Search engine for quick product search
✔︎ Quick orders
✔︎ Electronic purchase orders (CMXL and EDI)
✔︎ E-Quotes
✔︎ Vending & VMI support
Your eProcurement Journey with MSC
1
Discovery
• MSC works with you to understand your requirements, capabilities and goals.
• Align on key requirements
• Determine a course of action
2
Technology & Mapping
• MSC sends a project kickoff communication
• Catalog set up
• Purchase orders
• Return documents
• Test plan
• Approval for production and agree on go-live date
• Create a beta "production" order
3
Go-Live
• A live production purchase order (PO) is sent to MSC
• Notification sent to MSC IT via email with details on production PO
• Customer reviews and validates return documents from production PO
• Customer validates 3-way match
• Validation of invoice acceptance for production POs
• Ensure data accuracy and no discrepancies
• Submit for payment
Benefits of MSC eProcurement Solutions
Integration Roles and Responsibilities
Learn more about the roles and responsibilities of all the teams involved in delivering the right eProcurement solutions for you.
MSC Punchout Training Resources and Guides
MSC Punchout Quick Reference Guides
Use this quick reference guide to learn how to navigate the different sections of the MSC Punchout. You can always contact us via the contact us section if you have any questions or need additional training support.
MSC Punchout Interactive Training
Use this interactive training to navigate the new Punchout site in real-time.
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How We Measure Success
By utilizing MSC eProcurement solutions, you can expect accurate data and reporting that reduces errors and rework, resulting in higher automation and lower cost of ownership. MSC Integrated customers get personalized reporting that highlights order-to-cash performance.
Over 1 Million SKUs in 40+ Categories at Pre-Negotiated Prices
More than the leading distributor of metalworking products in the industry, MSC also provides services and innovations that assist customers with greater efficiency throughout the manufacturing process.
Frequently Asked Questions
MSC eProcurement Integrations and P2P Solutions can bring value and help resolve your supply chain challenges. Please check the frequently asked questions for guidance on getting started!
To get started, fill out our Contact Us form and our eProcurement team will get back to you in 24 hours.
MSC supports all major eProcurement systems including Coupa, SAP Ariba, Workday Procurement, Taulia and more. MSC can still support your eProcurement journey without an eProcurement system - to learn more about our offerings whether you have an eProcurement system or not, reach out to us here.
We can integrate MSC eProcurement solutions with your eProcurement system anywhere from 1 week to 12 weeks. The timeline is mainly dependent on the availability of your resources to support requirements gathering, design and testing.
MSC helps companies in all industries meet with MRO needs. Our customers include companies in the Medical, Machinery, Aerospace, Education, Public Sector industry. To learn more about MSC eProcurement solutions for your industry, reach out to us here.
MSC Punch-out has full usage of mscdirect.com functionality and has same look and feel, while providing the uniqueness needed for Punch-out users. The Punch-out landing page allows visibility to vending replenishment order, VMI scans and Quotes.
MSC eProcurement capabilities support four unique methods of shopping:
MSC Punch-out catalogs (preferred) is a derivative of mscdirect.com and was established to create private shopping experiences for customers. Each Punch-out catalog is unique to the customer, has the latest contract pricing, allows searches by customer part number, and access to all catalog items and special items.
You can watch our MSC Punch-out Demo video here.
Hosted Catalogs allow search within customers’ procurement system using a ‘marketplace’ type experience for only pre-negotiated items. It is important to note that these catalogs are static, limited in size and prices are locked in our system until updates can be sent to the customer. Additionally, the search experience is poor, and certainly not on the level of Punch-out. Hosted Catalogs are preferred by customers who want control of the data, do not have the capabilities to support punch-out and are looking for an “Amazon-like” search experience.
Punchout Level II provides the “Amazon-like” marketplace search experience while utilizing the search engine of the customer’s eProcurement system. Like hosted catalogs, customers looking to control the search and provide their employees with the ability to compare results across different suppliers can leverage this.
ERP Storeroom Generated Orders & Short-Text is costliest of the four methods that we support. In this example, MSC has no control of the data, and we see a high percentage of failed orders due to invalid price, UOM (unit or measure), part numbers, etc. Bad data leads to order delays, downstream invoice failures and a much higher cost to serve and total cost of ownership.
To discuss other options, reach out to us here.