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Managed Procurement

Axon's Managed Procurement alleviates the day-to-day hassle of procurement for our customers. It allows them to spend less. Taking cost out never means the customer has to make a sacrifice – Axon Managed Procurement improves service levels and reduces the total cost of technology ownership at the same time.

Axon routinely cuts as much as 20% off customers’ procurement and support costs. Customers simplify their supply chain and leverage Axon’s processes to improve the efficiency, speed, and quality of procurement – without limiting their choices.

For many customers, a highly valued component of Axon’s Managed Procurement is software licensing. Outsourcing the management of software licensing to Axon is a no-headache, proven way to ensure you never buy more licenses than you need, and that you’ll always pass license audits with flying colours.

Over or under licensing are both common problems. Businesses may also get the number of licenses right, but pay the wrong price for them. Microsoft alone has 10,000 product part numbers, so calculating which price is optimal for an individual business is highly complex. Axon’s software license management tool has proven highly successful in helping New Zealand businesses to simplify planning and management of licensing compliance and expenditure. One of the key functions of Axon’s software licensing management tool is to deliver accurate licensing expenditure forecasts.

Axon manages customer volume licensing agreements for over 160 companies, including more than 30 public sector organisations.

Our Managed Procurement solutions leverage a combination of experienced, expert personnel, best practices, leading-edge technology and world-class logistics.


Managed Procurement solutions include:

  • AXONLINE – the market-leading online procurement tool, delivering savings of as much as 30 percent over the usual three-year life cycle of owning and operating hardware. AXONLINE offers highly sophisticated online self-service, but also facilitates instant access to personal advice and help from the Axon team as needed
  • Volume licensing & Government licensing agreements
  • Stock warehousing
  • Managed deployment and retirement of hardware/software
  • Equipment financing
  • Assisted and web self-service quoting
  • Procurement workflow and approvals
  • Dedicated catalogue management
  • Hardware warranty enhancements.

AXONLINE - a managed service

Axonline - a Managed Service

  • The speed, ease and convenience of online self-service, with instant
    access to personal advice and help from the Axon team as needed
  • One stop for hardware and software
  • Best price across multiple vendors
  • Less time spent on procurement with highly efficient
    online quote process, backed by streamlined fulfilment
  • Instant online availability of rich information on products,
    via CNET data feed, enabling more informed decision making
  • The ability to highly customise procurement processes to suit
    the unique needs of individual customers.

AXONLINE HOTSPOTS

The AXONLINE Procurement team often comes across procurement deals that are so smokin' hot; we decided we have to share them with our procurement customers. So, we've put together Hotspots - a regular email packed with outrageously good discounts on a range of products.

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