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Teamcenter for SRM supplier management
Teamcenter for SRM supplier management
fact sheet
Siemens PLM Software www.siemens.com/ugs
Summary
Teamcenter ® software’s supplier relationship management (SRM) capabilities allow you to monitor, track and manage your suppliers on
an enterprise basis. By enabling you to capture and manage information about individual suppliers, Teamcenter’s supplier management
solution lets your procurement teams extend their suppler knowledge and visibility, increase their negotiation leverage, make more
effective sourcing decisions and evaluate supplier performance.
Benefits for your As an integrated part of
procurement organization Teamcenter’s SRM
Centralizes and standardizes your capabilities, procurement
supplier management processes
teams can use Teamcenter’s
Enables you to measure the overall supplier management
health of your supplier management
programs at a single glance solution to identify, engage
Reduces process inefficiencies and and evaluate suppliers within
sub-optimal coordination by their company’s PLM
enabling your product development, environment.
finance and procurement teams to
work with your suppliers
Today’s supplier
Manages a full spectrum of suppliers
from low complexity to high management challenges
collaboration relationships After years of successful yet
Provides fingertip access to more diminishing savings from
reliable and current supplier strategic sourcing initiatives,
information at a lower cost
CFOs and CPOs continue to be challenged by the need to determine how to achieve the next
Streamlines communications and
sourcing event management by significant return on value from today’s global supply markets. While companies have received cost
providing real-time access to savings from traditional sourcing levels, such as value concentration and best price evaluations, they
supplier information still face challenges beyond these initiatives.
Benefits to product While today’s global economy increases the need to identify and manage a global supplier base,
development entrenched suppliers raise the complexity of certain strategic relationships. These challenges drive
Facilitates supplier and procurement the need for ever greater collaboration between you and your suppliers.
collaboration during the early stage
of product development – so that Many companies address these challenges by investing in sourcing technologies and supplier
you can design cost out of your management solutions. However, these solutions often fall short because:
products
Shortens your design process, so • A “one-size-fits-all” approach fails to address today’s real-world complexities
that you can release your products • Software solutions fail to comprehensively account for today’s sourcing processes
more quickly and cost effectively
• Companies fail to strategically adopt sourcing solutions across all stakeholder communities
fact sheet Teamcenter
Feature checklist Using Teamcenter’s supplier management capabilities
Supplier on-boarding At the most basic level, you can use Teamcenter to establish a supplier relationship portal for your
• Supplier self-registration PLM environment. Teamcenter provides your suppliers with self-registration and record maintenance
• Supplier maintenance of own data capabilities they can use to profile themselves and actively participate in your requirements definition,
• Pre-population of suppliers from product definition and product development processes.
other applications
Supplier-provided profiles include various kinds of information ranging from contact and general
Data collection
financial data to capacity and descriptive capabilities. In turn, procurement teams can search through
• Automatic data capture in standard
database this collected base of supplier information across multiple dimensions, including a client-specific
• Management of general company sourcing tree. As a result, Teamcenter enables team members to quickly find, select and monitor
data prospective suppliers through a variety of assessment, status setting and performance scorecarding
• Category-specific capability and capabilities.
capacity data
You can extend Teamcenter’s supplier management capabilities beyond the narrow confines of a
• Data collection via online survey
from suppliers or buyers supplier registration portal by establishing an intelligent platform that you can use to:
• Import/export data to other • Qualify your suppliers on multiple levels
applications
• Encourage suppliers to self-administer their respective profiles
Survey content
• Enable sourcing teams to evaluate prospective suppliers on the basis of a procurement’s financial
• Online development and automatic
publishing requirements, product profile, and/or production capabilities
• Mandatory question-setting option • Share supplier information with other Teamcenter SRM solutions, including Teamcenter’s
• Specification that certain questions collaborative RFP and internet negotiation (auctioning) solutions
are private to buyers
Proven results
• Customized buyer pages
• More than 275 companies in 60 industries use Teamcenter for SRM
Analysis
• Over $200 billion in spend source has been managed by Teamcenter for SRM
• Scorecards calculated from survey
data and external data feeds • Sourcing cycle reductions of 50 percent have been managed by Teamcenter for SRM
• Standard and custom searches and
reports
• Export to Excel
Intuitive interface
• Flexible, customizable format for
data collection that supports all
question types
• Ability to attach files to posted
surveys
• Library functionality to store
templates for copy and reuse
Globalization
• Multi-currency options, multi-
language capability and custom
time zone display
• Localization support
Secure integrated platform
• Role-based user security model
• Integration with existing mission-
critical systems, through defined
data feeds
• Customized screens to
incorporate customer branding
and preferences
• Teamcenter for SRM single sign-on
Contact
Siemens PLM Software
Americas 800 498 5351
Europe +44 (0) 1276 702000
Asia-Pacific 852 2230 3333
www.siemens.com/ugs
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