Supplier Relationship Management (SRM)
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, compliance management.
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.
Key Benefits
Dramatically reduce procurement costs
Deliver a real time collaborative network between you and your suppliers
Improve visibility & accuracy of supplier costings
Ensure your supply base is trading ethically
Manage purchase orders from initial creation to delivery
Deploy critical path tracking at all stages in the procurement cycle
Ensure all parties understand what has to be done and when
