Compare Arkestro vs. Penny

Experience effortless sourcing with no need for logins or apps, as our one-click events seamlessly land in your suppliers' inboxes, enriched with real-time predictive insights. Our adaptable data framework caters to all categories of expenditure, allowing you to source anything you could manage in Excel with ease using Arkestro. With predictive anomaly detection, potential mistakes are identified and corrected before they impact procurement processes. The role-based access feature streamlines project management for sourcing events, ensuring all stakeholders receive timely updates. Arkestro enhances sourcing cycles by learning from supplier behavior, which helps to reduce the time required for these processes. A straightforward email-based workflow offers a range of award scenarios tailored to your sourcing events, regardless of their size or complexity. Supplier quotes often contain errors stemming from manual data entry and copy-pasting, which can complicate the sourcing process. Monitoring the progress of sourcing activities typically involves numerous pivot tables, making the task cumbersome. Additionally, new sourcing cycles often fail to incorporate insights from supplier quotes submitted in prior cycles. To aid in this, our pricing simulator provides immediate recommendations for suppliers to adjust and resubmit their proposals, making the process even more efficient. Ultimately, Arkestro transforms the sourcing landscape by minimizing errors and maximizing efficiency through intelligent data utilization.

Penny is a cloud-based Procure-To-Pay system. Beautifully designed and easy to use, penny digitalizes and manages your entire procurement cycle, from request to pay. Send RFQs, RFPs, and RFIs to multiple vendors, compare quotes, send POs, and even payment. penny was created to make a complicated process simple by combining all your organization's procurement requirements into a single intelligent system. How can penny help your organization save time & money? ● Allocate, manage, and monitor budgets by expense accounts, projects, departments, location, teams, etc. ● Streamline procurement means that requests, approvals, and POs won’t be lost in emails or offline. ● The platform makes it simple to extract and track the history and records of requests and purchases. ● Product requests are more accurate through catalogs, avoiding purchasing errors. ● Reports and analysis can be extracted from the platform, giving you a consolidated data center for all your procurement activities. ● penny is cloud-based and was designed with ease-of-use in mind. Our Action Board gives your team a user-friendly and simple experience.