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Supplier Management
Combining business and IT expertise with innovative technology to deliver longer-term business value
– on demand, NOW
Increase business visibility
Measure Supplier Performance
Streamline Supplier Management
Enforce compliance
Customize with ease
Increase visibility and mitigate risks
- Proactive visibility to exceptions, demand variability and quality issues
- Provide accurate demand forecasts to suppliers and buyers
- Compare supplier spend against supplier performance
- Compare supplier performance against demand volatility
What does that mean to you?
- Enables supplier agility
- Mitigate risks to material procurement
- Higher supplier productivity
- Improve supplier performance and supplier base
Track and improve Supplier Performance
- Enable buyers and suppliers to track performance
- Provide information to aid in contract negotiations
- Support quarterly business reviews (QBRs) and track PPV
- Measure lead-times, quality and on-time delivery metrics
- Compare supplier performance metrics to similar suppliers and industry standards
What does that mean to you?
- Continuously improve supplier performance
- Negotiate better contracts with suppliers
- Mitigate purchasing exceptions
Streamline communication and promote collaboration
- All communication is tracked electronically and can be audited
- Automate payment approval process and release of payments to ERP
- Create Electronic invoices
- Manage and automate dispute resolution, invoicing reconciliation and returns
- Communication and information is automatically updated into the ERP
What does that mean to you?
- Improved supplier relationships
- Better material quality and supplier performance
- Fewer supplier credit holds
- Master data management – more accurate data in the ERP
Enforce and ensure compliance
- Enforce compliance with easy to define business rules
- Configure exception triggers that initiates a supplier corrective action request (SCAR) or equivalent process
- Send alerts and track responses
- Share supplier qualification and quality documents between suppliers and buyers
What does that mean to you?
- Auditable supplier management
- Ensure compliance to negotiated quality and service levels
- Complete vendor performance history
- Proactively address quality or performance issues
Create or configure best practice workflows with certified ERP integration
- Create simple business rules with drag and drop UI
- Easily modify existing rules
- Fully customizable user interface
- Access ERP and other data anywhere on your corporate network or the internet
What does this mean to you?
- No maintenance or upgrade headaches
- Immediate ROI
- Scales with your business
- Minimal time to alter business rules
- A solution that adapts to enable changes in your business
