Collaborate across tiers with supplier management software

Gather information about your trading partners’ sustainability and ESG practises, certifications, compliance, and more via questionnaires – and raise corrective action plans when needed.

Highlights: 

• Supply chain transparency: Build brand loyalty and ensure timely deliveries
• Comprehensive supplier data: Enhance compliance and supplier insight
• Audit and risk management: Minimise supply chain disruptions
• Sustainability monitoring: Help meet environmental goals and ensure ethical sourcing

Negotiate and confirm order dates, quantities, and terms with suppliers to ensure they can meet expectations. Collaborate on proposed changes, proactively identify potential delays, and maintain accurate available-to-promise (ATP) dates in your ERP system.

Highlights:

• Streamlined collaboration: Collaborate across multiple order lines and orders simultaneously, reducing time for confirmations or negotiating proposed changes
• Automated order change approvals: Rules-based intelligence automatically approves supplier-proposed changes within defined tolerances
• Highlight critical changes: Ensure suppliers quickly identify and respond to key updates, such as changes to delivery dates, quantities, or ship-to locations
• Automatic ERP updates: The ERP updates automatically, eliminating manual efforts, reducing errors, and ensuring the system reflects agreed-upon terms

Improve visibility into order status and reduce cycle times by collecting key production  milestones from your suppliers. Create a consolidated view of production status across suppliers, products, and regions – and receive event notifications and alerts to manage by exception. 

Highlights:

• Milestone tracking: Capture actionable production milestones from suppliers using configurable milestone tracking
• Simplified processes: Simplified supplier processes through batch update features and Work-In-Excel functionality increases timeliness and accuracy
• Exception management: Early alerts to potential delays enable you to proactively address potential issues 
• Postponement strategies: Visibility into supplier production status allows you to make changes to meet the latest demand

Make it easy for suppliers to execute packing, labelling, and shipping in compliance with your requirements. Enable store-ready packing and shipping at source – and leverage enhanced automation and RFID technology to ensure accuracy and efficiency. 

Highlights:

• Automated packing plans: Incorporate specific packing rules for consistency and accuracy in every order
• Plan to Ship creation: Streamline vendor booking with automatic data transfer, reducing manual entries
• Carton serialisation: Ensure distinct and traceable cartons with unique LPN numbers
• Customisable labelling: Generate customisable labels to meet business rules and support advanced logistics
• Item scanning: Leverage built-in RFID technology to guarantee packing speed and accuracy, enhance traceability, and prevent costly shipping errors 

Automate quality control and reporting processes with our Quality Assurance app. Collect real-time quality data and inspection results at the source, provide suppliers with visibility into audits, and centralise reporting to rapidly identify emerging quality issues across your supply chain. 

Highlights:

• Real-time data capture: Reduce audit times, improve data accuracy, and enable rapid responses to issues
• Centralised insights: Ensure consistent information for all stakeholders
• Proactive issue identification: Detect trends early and implement corrective actions
• Boosted brand loyalty: Reduce quality issues and enhance customer satisfaction