Nipendo Trading Community Platform™ empowers community members with „Value-Add Services‟. Parts of the specified Value-Add Services are currently available and others will be available in the future. Nipendo is constantly adding new services to the platform and improving functionality of the existing ones. Nipendo‟s Value-Add Services helps companies to leverage the power of the trading community, promote their businesses, recruit new customers, and benefit from new and exciting services.
Here are some of the value added services:

Supply Chain Financing

It’s time to change the way you pay
When your suppliers get paid sooner, and you get to hold onto your money longer, everybody wins. That’s the idea behind the Supply Chain Financing Plan from Nipendo Financing services. This service is available today pending approval by both customers as well as suppliers.

Customer Evaluation:

Nipendo’s open platform provides instant benefits to the community also in the area of customer ratings. With the approval of all members, Nipendo will be able to measure suppliers’ performance with reference to past performance as well as in comparison to other suppliers and thus create a Customer Evaluation rating tool.

Sourcing:

• Assessment of a company’s current spends Assessment of the supply market (who offers what?)
• Total cost analyses (how much does it cost to provide those goods or services?)
• Identification of suitable suppliers
• Development of a sourcing strategy (where to buy what considering demand and supply situation, while minimizing risk and costs)

All of these are the tasks of the procurement manager.
Using existing tools such as internet and agents, buyers can get plenty of information of what is out there. When it comes to getting qualitative data of: suppliers credibility, suppliers past performance, supplier’s credit history, suppliers’ Portfolio etc, it usually takes longer. Nipendo intends to offer members of its community a Sourcing service that will provide them with access to all the information they need with a click of a button.

Business Chat:

While processing an invoice or a purchase order, buyers often face some uncertainties with regards to the details. Up until now, the only way to resolve these uncertainties was to call the supplier, get an answer, update the information or insert a comment manually. This process is often time consuming and causes many delays in document processing. Nipendo’s business Chat allows business partners to communicate using IM (Instant Messaging) technology; while keeping records of their IM attached to the business document. A current version of the Chat is already available in the form of “notes” that are editable in all supported processes and are kept attached to the documents even when they are moved to archive.