What is Annual Rate Contract (ARC) ?
What is an Annual Rate Contract (ARC)? An annual Rate Contract (ARC) is a procurement strategy of enterprises/ business customers to reduce cost. ARC is an agreement or contract between sellers and buyers to provide items for a defined period, mostly a year. ARC is a great solution and benefits both sellers and buyers. ARC assures constant prices throughout the year and protects buyer from increasing prices and for Sellers, getting visibility of supply, with which they can plan the supply quantity committed in ARC and hence can assure better margin. ARC assures faster and simplified procurement for both buyer and seller. ARCs would fall in Class B purchases. As an organization, there should always be a push to convert all their Class C items( the unknowns/ unplanned purchases) to Class B ( the planned purchases) but this would not happen in a day, organization need to work backward from their data of consumption pattern and then decide When should we opt for ARC? ARC is a great str