Manage your suppliers with one source of truth – with supplier lifecycle management software

Take a more strategic approach toward supplier management – and impact your bottom line – by leveraging your supplier relationships. Our supplier lifecycle management software can help you accomplish this and more. The result? Lower costs and more effective supplier relationships that drive competitive advantage.

Cultivate supplier relationships that drive value and competitive advantage
Cut cost and drive innovation with automated collaboration and less administrative burden
Minimize supply-base risk by using a standardized approach to supplier qualification
Gain full visibility into the performance of your supplier base

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The Strategic Supplier Management Mandate

Strategic supplier management has evolved into a mission-critical practice focused on the management of supplier information, performance, compliance, and risk. Learn the three principles that are integral to optimized supplier management and how to put them to into practice at your organization.

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Cultivate Value-Driven Supplier Relationships

Lower costs, reduce risk, and create more effective relationships that help drive competitive advantage. How? With SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management. Discover how this software can help you strategically manage your suppliers and control the end-to-end supplier lifecycle.

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Performance. Risk. Information.

Discover the latest best practices and technology trends in strategic supplier management that you can leverage for future growth and competitive advantage. Learn more from this research report by analyst firm Ardent Partners.

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What's Included

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Supplier Onboarding and Registration
Use automated workflow and supplier self-service functionality to bring new suppliers on board.
- Automate workflow to manage approval processes for new suppliers
- Enable suppliers to register themselves and maintain company data with self-services
- Deliver a single source of truth for supplier data
- Integrate supplier data with SAP Business Suite
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Supplier Qualification
Build and send questionnaires quickly and effectively, and evaluate potential suppliers based on a weighted scoring system.
- Build qualification questionnaires by using a library of reusable questions
- Automatically distribute questionnaires from a supplier list
- Evaluate responses based on a weighted scoring system
- Gain visibility and monitor progress throughout the qualification cycle
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Supplier Portfolio Management
Gain better visibility into your global supply base.
- Experience an ongoing, global view of all suppliers
- Classify suppliers by category of supply
- Store and access key supplier information
- Deploy a supplier promotion process
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Supplier Performance Management
Analyze performance based on key performance indicators, and develop or phase out suppliers based on their value to your business.
- Access a central library of key performance indicators
- Generate reports, benchmark performance, and perform analyses
- Phase out underperforming suppliers
- Develop required capabilities with promising suppliers
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SAP Supplier Lifecycle Management

Manage your suppliers with one source of truth – with supplier lifecycle management software

Featured Resources

The Strategic Supplier Management Mandate

Cultivate Value-Driven Supplier Relationships

Performance. Risk. Information.

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What's Included

Supplier Onboarding and Registration

Supplier Qualification

Supplier Portfolio Management

Supplier Performance Management