Our business model is that several utilities in Germany, Eastern and Central Europe are members of the Connexio Community. All members have access to Connexio (online supplier information system) and use our services. In addition to that the community is the one that has great influence on the further development and functionalities of Connexio.
The most important tool of this community is the “steering group”. The steering group consist of one representative of each utility and one representative of Achilles. Minimum once a year all those representatives meet in order discuss and agree on the following: requirements/criteria for supplier, supplier audits, utilities that want to join this community, further development of Connexio Utility.
Operation of Connexio
Achilles Central Europe operates Connexio, an online supplier information system, on behalf of the utilities(water and energy) in Germany, Eastern and Central Europe. With your personal login details you cannot only identify verified supplier but also maintain/administer your company internal supplier information in your protected area.
Verification of suppliers
We verify all data, information and documents provided by the supplier via an online supplier questionnaire (pre-qualification stage 1). The verification includes: compliance with requirements, validation, accuracy and contradiction. Only if we identify that a supplier meets these criteria we upload him to Connexio.
Provision of supplier information
It is our objective to provide a comprehensive and meaningful profile of each supplier. Due to this we upload the information and data gained from the verification to Connexio. The evaluation of the supplier’s financial competence is provided by Dun&Bradstreet in the next couple of months. However the DUNS Number and the D&B Rating is provided in each supplier profile. In addition to that Connexio has interfaces allowing a data transfer from/to SAP or Oracale.
Sustainable verification of suppliers
It is our objective that you can always access valid and meaningful information each time you logon to Connexio. Consequently we ask every supplier to update their profile once a year. Moreover we track every supplier: as soon as we notice that a supplier does not comply with the current requirements we contact the supplier. Nevertheless the supplier can update his profile at any time. However if a supplier changes his profile during his registration period we verify carefully the updated information. This includes again: compliance with requirements, validation, accuracy and contradiction.
Functionality of Connexio
- Identify potential suppliers (Search for suppliers)
Connexio provides several search and filter functionalities allowing you to find suppliers and to create supplier lists.
- Global Sourcing via Achilles Global Utility Business Directory
With your access to the „Achilles Global Utility Business Directory“ you can identify suppliers on a global basis. This directory consists of suppliers that are already verified (pre-qualified) by Achilles in other countries / geographical regions.
- Ask suppliers additional questions electronically via eQual
All “pre-qualified” suppliers registered in Connexio are verified successfully by Achilles and comply with requirements set up by the utilities (pre-qualification stage 1). However each utility might have specific requirements with respect to products, services or current projects and tenders. Our customers do not need separate software for this. They use eQual. With eQual they cannot only administer their additional internal questions but also send those questions to the appropriate suppliers. After sending the additional questions they can track the responses: who has already answered the questions? In addition to that with eQual you can also evaluate if the supplier complies with the additional requirements.
- Supplier Management / Supplier Development
We can implement a dedicated area exclusively for your organisation. In this dedicated area you can administer/maintain your internal information/ confidential information such as the development of suppliers, contracts, tenders etc.
- Qualification System according to EU procurement regulation
Connexio is desinged to be used as a "qualification system". The utilities can publish an EU-Notice by using Connexio as a pre-qualification system. Details