SRM delivers total control of all your sourcing and supplier management processes.

Key processes from initial sourcing intelligence gathering ; supplier quotations; production planning; purchase order progress tracking right through to compliance auditing can be performed in a totally collaborative web based manner.

The key business areas addressed by the solution are:

Supplier Definition – profile management, grading, contact definition, hierarchies, document management.

Inspections and Audits – ethical trading, health & safety, inspection team definition, automatic audit scheduling, pre-production audits.

Supplier ‘self service’ – on line access to key data, product specifications, critical path dates and real time updates, upload or view documents, on-line access to purchase orders and progress updates.

Supplier quotations – multiple product types, multi currency, user defined cost calculations, linked to product specifications, approval/rejection cycle, costing knowledge base.

Collaborative planning – capacity definition, multi level planning, tentative/planned/confirmed requirements, approval/rejection cycles.

Collaborative design & development – on-line access to product specifications, add comments, upload images/sketches, add component details/prices, security definition.

Purchase Order Management – multiple types, blanket/scheduled/direct deliveries, linked to product specifications, user defined critical path tracking, packing lists, ASN’s, supplier real time updates, global supply maps.