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Supplier Collaboration Portal

As you well know, supplier visibility and responsiveness are the key determinants of a robust supply chain. To achieve true collaboration, retailers like you need a platform that enables right information for planning, operations and performance measurement.

And that’s precisely what you’ll find in Manthan’s Supplier Collaboration Portal. A comprehensive, portal-based online platform for exchanging information critical to key processes like order management, master data management, vendor performance, inventory management, promotions and rebates and customer insight.

Supplier Portal framework answers key questions like:

• How do I accurately estimate demands for my products? How can I quickly respond to fluctuations in actual sales
• Has the container has reached the port of entry? When is it expected to clear customs? Or worse yet, what’s in the container?
• Execution costs are getting way out of control. Is there any way I can put a lid on this?

This supplier portal framework equips you with:

• Multi-level, near real-time visibility into the entire supply chain process, with greater depth of visibility across the order fulfillment spectrum
• Personalised, portal-based delivery of information in a rich and intuitive business user friendly interface
• Multi-level security by vendor, by role, with restricted views and module/column level security
• Guided analytics for improved decision making, with key metrics that include vendor performance measurement, promotions and rebates, inventory, and order management
• Unified view of information from disparate sources such as MMS, WMS, order management and financial systems
• Workflow-based collaboration for new product introductions, service delivery and contract amendments etc.

With the Supplier Portal, retailers can realize benefits like:

• Reducing miscommunication and delays in sharing trading information
• Improve vendor relationship and visibility in logistics.
• Identify and reduce transit variability; know when the shipment passes key milestones
• Reduced time-to-market for new products
• Reduce transactional costs
• Enable collaborative planning, forecasting, promotions and rebates management
• Supply-demand synchronization – Improved inventory visibility and hence lower ‘out-of-stock’ (OOS) problems