U-control

Introducing U-control, our unique, fully customisable web-based solution


What is it?


U-control is our latest supply chain solution designed to make the procurement, management and control of consumables as easy and effective as possible. The system is fully customisable, meaning that not only can the site be displayed in your colours and with your logo, but it can also be populated with your cost centres, sites, users, individual spend limits, department-specific catalogues, and customer-specific information, such as training certificates, accreditations and best practice documentation.

We believe that our investment in U-control shows our commitment to finding solutions that help protect our environment. By reducing the number of suppliers and deliveries to site, and by removing the need to raise paperwork for purchase orders, good receipts, internal requisitions on site, U-control provides the most efficient and effective paperless supply chain whilst further enhancing and enforcing the controls required on site to manage and monitor the supply of product and services. Using the authorisation control and spend limits that you define, U-control allows for the procurement of products and the authorisation of orders without the need for anyone to leave their place of work, reducing down time and maximising productivity.

Features of the solution include:

ü  Powerful and flexible ways to control purchasing within your organisation

ü  The ability to set and control spend limits by individual, department, product category and site

ü  Create departmental specific cost centres and product categories

ü  Create product categories specific to your site and restrict the items that each user can view

ü  Manage and control authorised signatories and spend limits

ü  Place orders from the comfort of your desk and have them delivered back to the place required the next day

ü  Run live reports to view spend and usage analysis by specific periods, departments, cost centres and sites to name but a few

ü  Purchasing lists allowing you to build up a list of commonly used products, making repeat ordering far easier

ü  Full control over the introduction of all new products to site

ü  A record of all issued items of Personal Protective Equipment, providing our customers with a full Health & Safety audit trail


Can U-control be customised?

Can U-control be customised? Yes, pretty much all of it! From the logo at the top, the colour scheme throughout, the user list, spend limits, cost centres, specific product range that each individual user can browse… we can set your site up so that it functions as an integrated solution with your current software. To make life easier for your staff, we can also put your product codes onto the system so that they can quickly and easily be found. With financial periods and budgets able to be stored against cost centres and users, every user will know exactly where they stand against their budget; giving you a level of control, visibility and management previously not experienced for the procurement of consumables.

You can customise:

ü  Users

ü  Cost centres

ü  Spend limits [by transaction, date and cost centre]

ü  Product ranges that each user, department or site can view Manage and control authorised signatories and spend limits

ü  Delivery locations

ü  Access to management information

ü  Who can authorise new product for site


What do our customers say?

"With the introduction of the One-team fully managed on-site store to site, Consumables enabled us to reduce our level of inventory holding down to nothing and reduce our consumables’ suppliers from 45 to 1, freeing up time, space and cash that we used on more critical areas of our business. Now, with the introduction of U-control, Consumables have provided us with an even more powerful tool, allowing us to order, monitor and manage our spend on a daily basis, by cost centre, department and even authorised signatory. As a buyer, this level of visibility and control is invaluable and, as a supply chain partner, Consumables remain at the forefront of innovation."
Andrew Carr, Senior Buyer at Chemring Countermeasures

For more information on U-control, please contact us today on 0844 893 6500 to speak with a member of our team or click here to complete a 'Contact request' form.