SAP Sourcing Supplier Management enables the following capabilities:
- Centralized supplier database: Create a central repository of all your Supplier records with all the associated documentation including scorecards, financial statements, risk assessments, and insurance certificates can help support periodic supplier reviews to audit compliance.
- Integrated Supplier Portal: Each Supplier has a personalized portal that allows him to view all relevant information to manage their relationship with you. Suppliers respond to bid requests and auctions, view scorecard performance, maintain their own contact and category records, and view active contracts. This holistic and easy-to-use interface greatly reduces the time it takes for Suppliers to become proficient working over the Internet and decreases their cost of doing business with you.
- Supplier Scorecard Sharing: The ability to easily track and analyze supplier performance can reduce risk and costs. SAP Sourcing’s flexibility allows you to establish metrics and evaluation criteria based on category and region. For reporting purposes, you can generate a scorecard over periods of time, such as each quarter, to monitor a supplier’s progress over the course of a year. Automatic assignment of traffic light indicators quickly highlights areas requiring attention from Supplier managers. The ability to share Supplier scorecards through the Supplier portal enables full collaboration and sharing of information to ensure optimal performance.
- Supplier Self-Registration: Suppliers can self-register in SAP Sourcing, or you can invite them to become users. The registration form can be configured to collect the most relevant information to accelerate the supplier qualification process. When new Suppliers are accepted, their registration form responses are used to generate the initial Supplier record.
- Supplier Profile Maintenance: As the supplier information changes, Suppliers can update their product and contact information through the Supplier portal, saving the Sourcing organization from the administrative burden of researching and updating supplier information.
- Supplier Relationship Activities: A successful Supplier relationship is built and sustained over time through a series of ongoing, recurring activities. These include routine tasks such as safety, insurance, and diversity certifications, as well as strategic joint meetings and planning activities. SAP Sourcing delivers an automated tracking and alert system that enables you to manage Supplier-specific activities with less effort. The system automatically sends alerts to Suppliers when tasks are due. In response Suppliers can modify profile and contact information and send updated certificates online through the SAP Sourcing Supplier Portal and the new, reviewed information is updated directly to the Supplier record.
- Supplier Diversity Promotion: SAP Sourcing offers a unified system to help increase the number of qualified diverse suppliers, achieve desired participation and award rates, and track compliance without additional resources. For example, diversity qualifications seamlessly flow from the self-registration form, to the Supplier record, to RFx responses for “extra credit” on scoring. Buyers inviting suppliers to events now have easy access to a single, searchable supplier database that includes category, location, and diversity information, lowering the threshold for compliance.
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