Supplier Connect

As supply chains become larger and more complex, vendor portals and supplier collaboration have risen to the forefront of optimization and are key components in a strategic, dynamic supply chain. Apptricity Supplier Connect enables an organization's supply chain by leveraging vendors as partners. Supplier portals create an online, real-time means for buyer-supplier communication that streamlines procure-to-pay business processes and enables supply chains to adapt as business environments change.

Connect to your suppliers

Apptricity Supplier Connect enables companies to stretch their automated procurement process by optimizing communications links with vendors and suppliers. Implementing a web-based interface for vendor collaboration, enterprises can reduce data entry errors, eliminate paper-based manual processes, and reduce costs across their entire procurement community.

Apptricity Supplier Connect facilitates purchase order delivery and acknowledgement and streamlines the communication process between buyer and supplier. Vendors are able to confirm, deny, or change purchase requests, and electronically notify purchasing managers about exceptions.

Established business rules extend to external participants in the procurement process. Companies can determine short pay, partial fulfillment, facilitating credit for goods not shipped and other corporate purchasing rules.

With automated purchasing processes, business managers are able to reallocate employee time to strategic business activities. By enabling vendors to engage in the purchasing process electronically, the speed of the procurement system is greatly enhanced.

Speed of fulfillment, speed of settlement

Integrating vendor collaboration into the procurement process assures rapid, accurate fulfillment and fast payment to suppliers.

A supplier portal enables electronic submission of purchase orders and allows vendors to respond quickly to those requests with acknowledgments and exceptions in real time. Vendors can generate advanced shipping notifications (ASNs), create (manually or through a PO flip) and send invoices directly into any AP system.

By streamlining the communication process, companies speed transactions through the supply chain, generate comprehensive audit trails, and provide opportunities for greater early payment discounts. Real-time communication increases adaptability and the ability to make business decisions rapidly and with greater confidence.

The portal

Apptricity Supplier Connect portal is the window to the supply chain. It links companies and vendors in a real-time environment that enables organizations to make better, faster business decisions.