APS Basic Purchasing
APS Basic Purchasing lets you automate vendor and commodity management, bid tracking, and reporting. Basic Purchasing is the cornerstone for automating your procurement cycle.

You can build a command list from the APS pull-down menus.
Basic Purchasing Benefits
Increases Productivity
Eliminates repetitive data entry by establishing master vendor and department files.
Automatically generate bidder lists and labels by commodity/service code and/or vendor category (e.g. MBE/WBE).
On-line status inquiry eliminates the need for time-consuming manual file searches.
Reduces Costs
Increase competition and realize lower prices by using a broad-based automated vendor file.
Cut postage costs, printing costs, and wasted time by identifying and purging non-responsive vendors.
Track purchase orders by type and identify problem areas such as excessive emergency or sole-source purchases.
Designed to use the NIGP* Code
Facilitates easy access to more than 6,000 commodity/service descriptions with on-line lookup by keyword or class-item code.
Designed specifically for public jurisdictions, the NIGP Code is a powerful tool for automating your purchasing process.
* The NIGP Commodity/Service Code is sold separately and is a registered trademark of
the National Institute of Governmental Purchasing, Inc.
Commodity Management
Track purchase orders issued and dollars spent by commodity/service code.
Customize the NIGP Commodity/Service Code as needed, or develop your own commodity/service coding system.
Vendor Management
Identify which products and services each vendor can supply, for automatic bidder selection by commodity/service.
Define your own categories (such as Minority, Local, or Business Type) for classifying and reporting on vendors.
APS allows multiple codes within each category.
Track no-bid responses by commodity/service code, to identify and delete non-responsive vendors by commodity/service.

An on-line alphabetical index lets you find commodity codes by keyword.
Security
System passwords prevent unauthorized access to your system.
Multiple security levels can limit users to inquiry-only, data entry, or all APS functions.
Passwords can be assigned to individual commands to further customize APS security.
Accounting Features
Assign purchase amounts to multiple account numbers, by percentage or dollar amount.
Customize your account number format.
Built-In Utilities
Pop-up Calendar makes determining bid open and close dates a snap.
Pop-up Calculator is useful for quick on-line calculations.
Information utility shows system details (available disk space, etc.) at a glance.