Supplier Management

Your organization needs to improve supplier collaboration, ensure optimal sourcing and facilitate real-time communication with suppliers.

  • Reduce cost of goods sold and lower procurement costs
  • Improve supplier selection to minimize supply risks
  • Ensure environmental, social and governance compliance (ESG)

Boost Mutually Beneficial Relationship with Suppliers

Your organization is aware of the benefits of tightening relationships with suppliers to better manage the procurement of goods and lower supply costs. Collaborative processes transform a typical transaction based association with suppliers into two-way-access and a mutually beneficial relationship.

In order to do so, manufacturers and suppliers must have visibility into their own supply chain operations and seamlessly share critical information with their partners. With QAD, you can move away from the old model of manual communication methods that impede information flows to a digital, cloud-based solution where trading partners gain access to real-time data. By gaining and sharing insights into sourcing, procurement and supply chain information with suppliers, companies can lower procurement costs, mitigate supply risks and improve supply chain performance.

Capabilities

Supplier Management provides manufacturers and their suppliers a single point of entry to facilitate real-time communication, improve procurement processes and reduce inbound supply risks. It delivers value across direct and strategic indirect procurement activities by improving strategic sourcing, supplier quality management, contract management and supplier performance. The solution:

  • Automates and streamlines
    • critical activities across the supplier lifecycle
  • Facilitates collaboration and information exchange
    • with suppliers and partners, using configurable workflows, forms and questionnaires

  • Utilizes download services for supplier documents
    • including contracts, non-disclosure agreements, and General Terms and Conditions
  • Centralizes supplier data storage
    • so users can quickly search and filter by material groups and other master data fields

  • Automates the collection and organization of supplier documents
    • (development data, contracts, and other documents)
  • Interfaces with trusted ESG and supply chain sources
    • to help meet sustainability goals and mitigate risk

  • Provides procurement organizations with accurate and up-to-date supplier information
  • Securely and electronically sign
    • NDAs, contracts, and more through providers such as DocuSign

  • Defines supplier activities, tasks and approvals with a workflow engine
    • for optimal source-to-pay processes
  • Includes predefined templates to ensure supplier information is reliably collected and shared

  • Allows manufacturers and their suppliers to leverage a portal, to access:
    • Supplier Data Management manages all supplier information to reduce discovery, onboarding, and qualification cycle time
    • Sourcing manages the electronic RFQ process with suppliers, from recording requirements to the RFI, RFQ, contracts, and finally the order
    • Auctions delivers superior sourcing results by tailoring the auction design to the negotiation situation and awarding strategy
    • QAD Demand and Delivery ensures visibility and collaboration on inventory, schedules, orders, shipments, invoices and replenishment requirements

This solution will generate significant added value for both our suppliers and DENSO. We would like to take this opportunity to thank you for the very good cooperation.

Axel Mayer, Director Supplier Quality and Advanced Quality Engineering, DENSO

ANCA Streamlines Procurement with QAD

QAD made procurement easier to manage and enabled ANCA to streamline supplier collaboration with cloud-based inventory visibility.

QAD Integrates with BMW Group’s Systems and Processes

The multinational manufacturer of performance luxury vehicles benefits from QAD with increased supplier collaboration and reduced supplier risk.

YFAI India Improves Supplier Performance with QAD

When it comes to managing multiple suppliers, clear and effective communication is critical to operational success.

QAD is the most flexible solution in the area of supplier management and sourcing. We were looking for software that is intuitive and has good usability. Thanks to QAD, which we have now introduced in all departments, we achieved an 85 percent reduction in workload.

Houssaine Machmour, Purchasing and Materials Management, Stadtwerke Solingen

Further Information

Due Diligence Under the UFLPA

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