Casino Solutions

Today’s business environment has increased the demands on Casino Purchasing Management for increased spend savings and efficiencies.  Buyers Edge Casino clients have found that the InsideTrack™ application has extended the functionality of their core systems to provide an expanded set of tools to enhance their Spend Management solutions. 

InsideTrack™ was designed by Purchasing professionals with a fundamental vision – supply the Purchasing staff with support for unrestricted creativity in designing their business model with confidence that they will be able to control, measure and track the results.  Click on the following links to see how InsideTrack™ functionality can help you achieve these goals.

  • Stragegic Sourcing
  • Contract Management
  • Invoice Auditing
  • Rebate Management
  • Web-based Reporting

What are the extended features designed into InsideTrack™  that will compliment and enhance your core system?

PRICING ARRANGEMENTS –  Fixed pricing agreements are fully supported in your core system but sometimes may not be the optimum model for your purposes.  InsideTrack supports pricing arrangements which include the following:

Cost Plus

  • Tiered Pricing
  • Base pricing with add on amounts
  • Cost range based per pound pricing
  • Manufacturer Guaranteed pricing
  • Manufacturer Guaranteed costs
  • Any combination of the above
  • Calculated pricing transmitted to Core System as fixed price

REBATE MANAGEMENT -  Core Systems allow for tracking of Rebates for a single manufacturer of an item for a fixed amount per case of product.
InsideTrack™ extends that functionality to support:

Rebate Type

  • Multiple manufacturers for an item
  • Per Pound rebates for items sold by case
  • Per Case rebates for items sold by pound
  • Rebates as a percentage of purchase dollars
  • Rebates as a percentage of guaranteed costs
  • Rebate amounts based on year-over-year growth
  • Rebate amounts based on sales amounts in manufacturer categories
  • Rebate amounts based upon targeted threshold levels

BID MANAGEMENT -  Core system has functionality to transmit bid documents to trading partners and upload bids into system.  Core system only supports fixed price bid submissions.  Bid Documents do not specify item manufacturer information or pack information to better evaluate bid submissions.  InsideTrack™ extends that core functionality to support:

Bid Functionality

  • Generate Bid Document with manufacturer information and pack information
  • Solicit bids with any of the above supported pricing arrangements
  • Generate Pricing for submitted bids for loading into core system
  • Bid Summaries for side-by-side comparison of multiple bids for product