Collaborate across tiers with supplier management software

Proactively assure supply – and enhance collaboration, visibility, and automation across your network – with Infor Nexus Supplier Management software.

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OVERVIEW

One platform for supplier management and engagement

Centralize all your supplier management processes on a single platform with Infor Nexus. Collaborate to proactively orchestrate supply, ensure quality, and establish faster sense and respond capabilities. Empower your suppliers to provide work-in-process updates, improve advance shipping notice (ASN) accuracy, and use built-in RFID technology to improve packing and shipping compliance.

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BENEFITS

Key benefits of the Infor Nexus Supplier Management system

Enhanced supplier collaboration

Collaborate on forecasts and orders to assure supply and improve on time and in full (OTIF) delivery.

Reduced warehouse time and costs

Accelerate receiving times and reduce labor with accurate, electronic advance shipping notices (ASNs).

Optimized lead times and inventory

Support direct shipment and cross-docking programs by increasing packing and shipping accuracy.

Improved product quality

Reduce the number of defective items reaching customers and minimize audit times with digital quality assurance.

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Supplier evaluation and onboarding

Streamline supplier vetting, onboarding, and transacting processes. Leverage comprehensive, consolidated supplier data to make more informed decisions – and gain essential visibility into supplier practices to ensure compliance with regulations, quality standards, and ESG practices.

Highlights:

Risk mitigation: Centralized data and tools aid in comprehensive supplier due diligence, mitigating risks and ensuring compliance
Progress tracking: Real-time visibility into supplier onboarding progress
Centralized documentation: Centralized storage and automation for simplified document handling
A single platform: Onboard, off-board, manage, and audit suppliers in a single place – and ensure efficient practices when surveying, collecting, and assessing supplier data

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Supplier ESG & compliance management

Gather information about your trading partners’ sustainability and ESG practices, 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: Minimize supply chain disruptions
Sustainability monitoring: Help meet environmental goals and ensure ethical sourcing

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Order collaboration

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

Work-in-process visibility

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

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Supplier pack and ship automation

Make it easy for suppliers to execute packing, labeling, 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 serialization: Ensure distinct and traceable cartons with unique LPN numbers
Customizable labelling: Generate customizable 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

Quality assurance

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 centralize 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
Centralized 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

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See Infor Nexus Supplier Management in action

Assuring the supply of product has never been more important. Find out how Infor Nexus Supplier Management can help you proactively ensure supply meets demand – and make your organization more agile through better collaboration, visibility, and automated execution.

With Work-in-Process (WIP) Visibility, we gained seven days in cycle time, which is incredible, and lost all of that data entry work, which was crazy.

Rachel Grogan

Vice President of Global Supply Chain, Burton Snowboards

CUSTOMER STORY

How Burton and Ariat used Infor Nexus to navigate the pandemic

As demand and supply levels dramatically shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were forced to re-evaluate their business models and the technology they used to keep the business running.

In this video, directors from retailers Burton Snowboards and Ariat International explain how their respective companies were able to use Infor Nexus to successfully minimize the negative impacts of the pandemic.

RESOURCES

Supplier management insights and resources

Learn more about how Infor Nexus Supplier Management software can boost collaboration and efficiency throughout your supply chain.

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VIDEO

How to improve assurance of supply

See how you can empower your suppliers to align with changing customer demand – using automation to boost responsiveness and improve assurance of supply.

VIDEO

Digitizing supply orchestration

Hear how companies like PVH, which includes brands Calvin Klein and Tommy Hilfiger, are improving customer satisfaction with digital supply management.

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BROCHURE

Discover Infor Nexus RFID

To streamline packing and auditing, Infor Nexus has partnered with Avery Dennison to leverage RFID data at source, benefitting both buyers and suppliers.

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WHITE PAPER

10 steps for supply chain resilience

Explore the ten steps for creating a more resilient supply chain – and learn how a connected supply chain business network can help future-proof your operations.

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Explore the Infor Nexus portfolio

Discover the full end-to-end suite of Infor Nexus supply chain management solutions designed to help your organization become more proactive, resilient, and sustainable.

One platform for supplier management and engagement

How Burton and Ariat used Infor Nexus to navigate the pandemic

As demand and supply levels dramatically shifted due to the COVID-19 pandemic, retailers were forced to re-evaluate their business models and the technology they used to keep the business running.

Collaborate across tiers with supplier management software

One platform for supplier management and engagement