Did you know that our very first version of Scale Procure went live exactly a year ago in October 2022? Our first forey towards procurement disruption in Africa!

🚀 Within this period; we onboarded 20 buyers, suppliers numbers hit 5,000, partnered with Kenya Private Sector Allinace (KEPSA), joined with Fortinus Events and Kenya Institute of Supplies Management (KISM) in curating the inagural Supply Chain and Logistics Summit East Africa and much more…all this while building/ releasing/ fixing our 10 core modules that make up Scale’s system. 🚀

This month, we have a lot that we would like to share but we’ll try and keep it short. We’ll focus on the key ones and most importantly, the one that has been asked about the most i.e our prices. So, let’s get straight into the details:

1. Supplier Diversity and Verification

Do you want to work with Youth, Women or PWD-owned suppliers? Do you find it a challenge sourcing for verifiable women-owned vendors? Going forward, we’ve got you covered on this in two ways:

• Firstly, you request for suppliers to provide the requisite documentation to show their certification status and monitor their ongoing status. We are already verifying the legality of these certificates (starting with AGPO) and assigning the respective badges to the suppliers.
• Secondly, you can now easily publish a tender by directly targeting these preference groups. This tender will only be visible to and accessible by the target group.

Further, as part of building the trust IQ on Scale, suppliers are now required to input their Business Registration and Tax PIN numbers and once verified, receive a ✅ Verified badge. This provides a quick confirmation of their registration status and legitimacy to do business.

2. Managing Contracts and their milestones

Our new cool kid on the block! You can upload contracts on Scale, assign counterparties and get notified about milestones such as reviews, payments and renewals. This is important for monitoring all your contractual obligations during the length of your projects or agreements.

3. Flexible and Affordable Pricing Options for all!

We reviewed and revised our prices to provide plans that respond to the needs of different organizations. A key update is the Pay-Per-Use option where as a Buyer, you create an account for free, find/manage your Suppliers and only on a needs basis, pay for only for what you use.

Check out https://scale.co.ke/pricing for a list of all our features and available discounts or download our profile.

Finally, the last quarter of 2023 has our work in procurement disruption cut out for us as follows:

• Launching Expressions of Interest (EoI), prequalification and registration of new suppliers, with ability to export or add them directly to your SRM.
• Introducing spend/budget tracking and requisition workflows from your internal teams.
• Providing more analytics and reports across each of the modules.

How to get started with Scale

1. Sign up – Create a Buyer account in a matter of minutes. Trial is free for any company of any size (Depending on your tier, you automatically receive 50 credits for free or 14 days free trial)
2. Set up your team – Need to collaborate? It’s easy to add users under different roles with different permissions based on their responsibilities.
3. Invite your Suppliers – Set up your existing suppliers (together with their categories) and an email will be sent to all your suppliers to self-onboard. Supplier accounts is totally free!
4. Pick up where you left off – Start interacting directly to your suppliers with all tenders, evaluations, reports, compliance etc handed digitally. Your team and your suppliers will love it!

That’s it! We appreciate you for working with us through our first year of procurement disruption. We can’t wait to see what the Year 2 is going to present to us all.

Email us back and let us know what you’d like us to priorize this year, and we’ll see how to make it work. Otherwise, feel free to Sign up and tinker around with Scale and let us know about your experience.

Spasibo! 🙏🏾

The Scale Team.