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Streamline every element of retail procurement

Enhance the associate experience and boost your profit margins by streamlining your indirect purchasing processes. With the Varis purchasing platform, you can establish a convenient one-stop shop, enabling staff across retail stores, distribution centers, and corporate offices to spend less time searching for essential supplies and more time improving the customer experience.

 

  • Save as much as 14% on indirect supplies
  • Reduce rogue spending by as much as 75%
  • 5% increase in time spent on core work
  • Seamless technical integration

What Retail customers say about Varis

“By Switching our MRO spend to Varis, we have realized a hard dollar savings of hundreds of thousands of dollars annually, over 21% cost reduction on the same items we already purchase.”

- Office Depot Retail

“From our stores perspective the buying experience is a day and night difference. Everybody is much more confident in what they are buying because the system is so much easier to use. Our teams can get back to business quicker because of Varis.”

– Home Improvement Retailer

4.7 out of 5

Hard dollar savings

Increase hard dollar cost savings by as much as 14% on indirect supplies when utilizing Varis’ managed suppliers.

Increase productivity

When purchasing store supplies is made easy, associates and managers spend less time ordering and have more time to focus on helping your customers…resulting in as much as 5% increase in available time. 

Increase contract compliance

Reduce rogue spending by as much as 75%. Associates will often avoid purchasing controls because they’re tedious, confusing, and opaque. Deploying Varis’ intuitive, easy-to-use purchasing platform helps associates comply with policy and reduces purchase hassles —little training required. 

Large, vetted supplier catalogs

All Varis suppliers are pre-negotiated, multi-year contracts that we rigorously manage for highly competitive pricing, delivery and product quality. Our catalogs include millions of items spanning Office Supplies, Safety and Personal Protective Equipment, Industrial Equipment and Cleaning Supplies. 

Seamless technical integration

The deployment-ready Varis purchasing platform can be implemented within a few weeks avoiding long integration projects and heavy lifting from your IT department. 

Guide:

5 signs your company should retool it’s procurement process

Blog:

Indirect procurement, an often- overlooked opportunity in retail operations

Case study:

Home improvement retailer builds transparent procurement

Case study:

Specialty retailer brings procurement into a single platform